Showcasing the Need for Due Diligence Investigations Reputation is critical in business. Warren Buffet once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” With the advent of social media, the turnaround for good or ill is even faster. Now, […]
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A number of interesting C Suite “characters” have been in the spotlight in recent years in the area of business corruption, fraud, and other acts of misconduct. These “bad actors” engaged in a multitude of bad actions and questionable behaviors, sometimes criminal activities, ranging from fraud, embezzlement, bribery, and money laundering, leading to serious reputation […]
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Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) enforcements so far in 2022 total $112.3 million in settlements with three companies: South Korea’s KT Corporation, Stericycle, Inc. headquartered in Illinois, and in June, Luxembourg steel pipe manufacturer Tenaris. Stericycle numbers climbed to over $82 million in combination with settling parallel criminal and civil charges to the US and […]
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