Tom Fox explores the ethical implications of hosted hunting trips and specifically the case of Fredrik Lundberg, chairman of Sweden-based Industrivarden, and Anders Borg, the former finance minister of that country, who was given just such a trip by Lundberg.
Tom Fox
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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VW: Fraud at the top?
More bad news for Volkswagen, as German authorities have expanded their investigation to 37 individuals from 21, including former CEO Martin Winterkorn. Tom Fox reports.
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The optics couldn’t be worse—VW departs its CCO
Barely a year after Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt took the position of head of compliance at Volkswagen, she is leaving the company. The Man From FCPA Tom Fox reports.
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China continues to be a source for FCPA violations
An astounding 16 corporate FCPA enforcement actions in 2016 were derived from China, leading The Man From FCPA Tom Fox to explore how to tackle business relationships with the complex country.
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Anything of value really means anything
Tom Fox explores recent cases that fall under the FCPA “anything of value” standard, including JPMorgan Chase, Rolls-Royce, VimpelCom, and Qualcomm.
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How General Cable’s FCPA mess looks to the past and the future
General Cable’s sprawling FCPA enforcement action seemed to go everywhere at once. Tom Fox explains.
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Wither the attorney-client privilege?
Attorney-client privilege is once again under siege, writes Tom Fox—this time in a lawsuit being brought by the former general counsel of Bio-Rad, Sanford Wadler, who is suing his former employer for wrongful termination.
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Disparaging a speak-up culture
Tom Fox explores the recent case of JPMorgan Chase when an employee’s former manager added material to a terminated employee’s file post termination to beef up the excuses for the termination. Not a good sign, says Fox, and possibly a sign of an ineffective compliance program.
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Next in line for regulatory troubles, Fiat?
Fiat, which was recently flagged by the EPA for pollution violations, could be a reminder to companies to scour the news for details on any regulatory investigations of their peers and perhaps to begin scrutinizing their own books and records, says The Man From FCPA Tom Fox.
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On the death of the ‘rogue engineer’
For The Man from FCPA Tom Fox, the most interesting thing about the Volkswagen indictments were not that ‘rogue engineers’ were charged but that executives who participated in the cover-up were indicted.
