Uber is taking steps to clean up its act. The company has hired Frances Frei as head of leadership and as the unofficial cheerleader for the company, whe will be teachingย management skills at all levels and how to workย as a team and lead an effort on business strategy.
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Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in compliance through his best-selling book Upping Your Game. He has 38 other books on the use of AI in compliance and business ethics, leadership including the seminal work, The Compliance Handbook, with its 7th edition coming out in 2025. He is the founder of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.
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McKinsey and KPMG face blowback in South Africa
Reports indicate both the international consultancy McKinsey and the international accounting firm KPMG have come under scrutiny for their work for the Gupta family and may be forced to self-disclose their findings to the U.S. government for potential FCPA violations.
Those pesky hot mikes and insider-trading laws
Inside is a look at the actions of the Batista brothers, leaders of corrupt firm JBS, which highlights a part of any corruption resolution across the globe: If you hold back information from the government, you will be subject to prosecution for those crimes as well.
Tone in an organization
Tom Fox explores the many levels of corporations and how they interact to create tone at the top, middle, and bottom.
Structure of the CCO position
The Man From FCPA explores the three prisms by which the structure of the Chief Compliance Officer position can be evaluated: access, resources, and opportunities.
What new headaches may befall FIFA?
A new and potentially very damaging turn has taken place in the ongoing FIFA corruption scandal. Miguel Maduro,ย former chairman of FIFAโs governance committee, said that if asked, he would provide specific accusations of top FIFA officials pressuring him to ignore regulations.
Uber and โHellโ
The hits keep coming to beleaguered transportation firm Uber; reports have surfaced that an internal company program called โHellโ utilized software that allowed it to illegally interfere with Lyft, an Uber competitor.
Remediation and the Equifax data breach
Equifax has a long road to travel to get past the recent data breach that saw 143 million peopleโs personal information exposed to theft.The company will need to engage in significant remedial action, notes The Man From FCPA, if they hope to survive the upcoming fallout.
New scandals; new lexicon for unethical conduct
In the FCPA world, the most dreaded question during an enforcement action is โwhere else?โโas in, where else are you engaging in bribery and corruption? After Wells Fargo, the lexicon may well expand to โwhat else?โโas in what other conduct is your company engaging in that is unethical?
Going weird in international bribery and corruption
As Hunter S. Thompson once said, โWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.โ Such is the case of BSG Resources after accusations surfaced that the company had paid bribes to obtain a huge mining concession in Guineaโcharges it vehemently denies.


