According to an internal investigation, 33 SEC employees or contractors have been watching porn on company time and company computers. Not only are these obvious and widespread violations of SEC policy — and hopefully, the policy of every company outside of that specific industry — but the transgressions all occurred at a time when the [...]
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
SEC
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is not new. Founded in 1977, the act’s main mission has always been to curtail improper accounting practices by companies operating internationally and prevent bribes. Thus, the “corrupt” aspect. In many parts of the world, there is a thin line between a “gift” and a “bribe,” and this regulation [...]
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Butler University,
Crowe Horwath,
Department of Justice,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
Jonathan Marks,
Mike Koehler,
SEC,
Siemens,
Whistleblowers
Department of Homeland Security Fail: “Tahaya Buchanan, an American fugitive who’d been on the run for more than two years, dodging a national arrest warrant for insurance fraud, has spent her years underground gainfully employed by the Department of Homeland Security. Our homeland security watchdog is doing something right, however, as DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano [...]
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Iceland,
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Justin.tv,
Michigan,
Norway,
Risk Management Links of the Day,
SEC,
Star Wars
To advance our mission of bringing you all the risk management news that’s fit to print, we will be doing these “Risk Management Links of the Day” posts roughly … you guessed it … every day. Hopefully, it will be a nice blend of things that you need to know and things that are just [...]
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TSA,
Wall Street