- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Aaron Nicodemus2025-02-13T15:50:00
With a six-month ban on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), compliance should retreat from fear-based messaging and instead focus on why ethical practices make good business sense, experts say.
President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place a six-month pause on enforcement of the FCPA, saying the law has been “stretched beyond proper bounds” and “abused” under Democratic leadership.
In an executive order issued Monday, Trump said that “overexpansive and unpredictable FCPA enforcement” of what he called “routine business practices in other nations”–namely, practices involving bribery–“actively harms American economic competitiveness and, therefore, national security.”
2025-06-11T16:44:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice has ended its six-month FCPA enforcement pause, closed half its legacy bribery cases, and will now pursue foreign bribery probes aligned with President Donald Trump’s priorities.
2025-02-10T15:27:00Z By Rezaul Karim, CW guest columnist
The dark web has been depicted as a long-standing hub for crimes, where illegal activities such as drug dealing, financial fraud, weapon sales, murder for hire, stolen credit cards, and ransomware gags are easily accessible to the public.
2025-02-06T20:05:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.S. Department of Justice under new Attorney General Pam Bondi will de-emphasize white collar misconduct linked to bribes and foreign corruption, instead prioritizing corruption cases linked to human smuggling and the trafficking of narcotics and firearms.
2025-06-09T15:18:00Z By Neil Hodge
The buzz around generative AI has reached fever pitch over the past few years—to such an extent that it’s practically a death knell for any company to say it’s not investing massively in gen AI to transform their business. There’s only one problem: many companies are either being misleading or ...
2025-05-30T18:06:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
A new law in Texas will go into effect next January that requires Apple and Google to verify the age of their app store users. This marks another piece of legislation from the state level intended to protect children, and the second such law specifically from Texas to limit children’s ...
2025-05-23T16:46:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Thousands of computers and other consumer electronic devices imported into the U.S. that were certified as safe by foreign laboratories have been identified as having links to the Chinese government or military, Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said Thursday in announcing an order to close the security ...
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