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Image: Title: MillerYet another Justice Department official is emphasizing the importance of effective compliance programs, this time in the context of avoiding a bribery and corruption probe. In a speech last week, Marshall Miller, principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, said: “The failure to expand compliance programs ...
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