For several years now, Compliance Week has reported the speeches from regulators vowing to pursue “gatekeepers” of corporate conduct. Leaders from the Justice Department, U.S. attorney offices, the Securities and Exchange Commission—they’ve all made relatively the same promise, to hold accountable the CEOs, board directors, general counsels, and senior executives who should have stopped corporate misconduct they saw.
And now, it seems, they will pursue compliance officers too, in a big way.
