Episode 81, the Biden on Corruption Edition

Everything Compliance

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks, Mike Volkov and special guest panelist Kortney Nordrum for a deep dive into the recent President Biden Statement and Memorandum making corruption a national security issue. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.

1. Mike Volkov looks at it from the regulatory/prosecutorial perspective and what it might mean for enforcement. Volkov rants about the DOJ investigations into Democratic members of Congress under the Trump Administration.
2. Jonathan Marks says that everything in the President’s Statement should not be surprise but it is a wakeup call for BODs. Marks shouts out to the FBI for recovering the bitcoin payment made by Colonial Pipeline to the cyber hackers who breached it.
3. Kortney Nordrum sits in as a special guest panelist. She looks at the Statement and Memorandum from the perspective a CCO. Nordrum rants about OSHA who after promising guidance for companies on return to work after Covid-19, only does so for health care organizations.
4. Matt Kelly considers the Statement and Memorandum from cryptocurrency perspective and considers what additional legislation might come out of the national security review. Kelly has his own epic rant about Texas’ own Congressman Louis Gohmert who asked a Department of Forestry representative if they had looked at altering the orbit of the earth or moon to combat the effects of climate change.
5. Tom Fox shouts out to the Department of Justice who indicted two US citizens who were engaged in bribery and corruption in trying to persuade the Trump Administration to order the DOJ to drop its investigation into 1MDB.

Additional Resources:

Matt Kelly blog post on Radical Compliance, Biden Puts Anticorruption Centerstage

Mike Volkov Podcast on Crime Corruption and Compliance, The Biden Administration Announces Anti-Corruption Battle as National Security Interest

Tom Fox takes a deep dive into the Statement and Memorandum on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog

Biden Statement

The Biden Administration, Corruption and National Security

Are You a Compliance Evangelist?

The Role of Corporate Compliance

The members of the Everything Compliance are:

• Jay Rosen– Jay is Vice President, Business Development Corporate Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors. Rosen can be reached at [e-mail]
• Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at [e-mail]
• Matt Kelly – Founder and CEO of Radical Compliance. Kelly can be reached at [e-mail]
• Jonathan Armstrong –is our UK colleague, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at [e-mail]
• Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader - Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at [e-mail]

The host and producer, ranter (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Voice of Compliance. He can be reached at [e-mail]. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network.

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