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Today’s episode is the continuation of a new series in which my former FBI Colleague Kevin Cearlock and I explore the funnier side of the FBI based on our own experiences and our friends. The working title is “You can’t make this sh*t up”.
Law enforcement is full of great story tellers. Hard to say whether storytellers tend to become law enforcement officers in disproportionate numbers or, perhaps more likely, it’s the fact that ridiculous things sometimes happen during the course of one’s law enforcement career and they can make for some great stories. Some of the best stories Kevin Cearlock and I have relate to bank robberies, and this episode shares one of my favorite stories witnessed first-hand.
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Of the various fraud scheme names that have been coined over the years, “Pig Butchering” is one that provokes the most visceral response based on the name alone. And yet, the actual act of Pig Butchering is even more horrible than the name suggests. It is the latest variation of an age-old type of crime under the umbrella of “Romance Schemes”. People who prey on the lonely and elderly pretending to be a potential romantic partner with the express purpose of defrauding them.
Guest Erin West, founder of Operation Shamrock, speaks about the mission to raise awareness of pig butchering with everyone, everywhere, all the time.
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Today’s episode is the introduction of a new series in which my former FBI Colleague Kevin Cearlock and I explore the funnier side of the FBI based on our own experiences and our friends. The working title is “You can’t make this sh*t up”.
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A discussion on China's state-sponsored theft of intellectual property from the U.S. and other leading economies with guest Frank Figliuzzi. Frank is a national security contributor and regular columnist for NBC News and MSNBC. He was the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the government. He is the author of “The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence”, and his most recent book "Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers."
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Losses from a major financial crime can have a long term, negative impact on an organization. The odds of recovering those losses are not great. In fact, many fraudsters embark on their criminal path because of the financial wreckage that is their personal lives. Divorces, job losses, health crises and addictions often cause otherwise decent, law-abiding people to lose their minds, become desperate and commit fraud. Fraudsters who committed crimes because of crushing debt don’t usually represent an attractive option when it comes time to seek financial recovery. Third parties sometimes do. The most reliable avenue for financial recovery may be your insurance carrier. Fraud losses incurred because of employee dishonesty are probably covered under your commercial crime or fidelity policy. If the bad actors in your company are board members or officers, the losses may be covered by your Directors & Officers (D&O) liability policy. Other policies that could come into play depending upon the facts include your general liability, property and casualty, professional liability and cyber policies.
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“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”. Certainly, this quote, who depending on who you ask is attributable to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln or Confucius, is a great way to encapsulate the importance of crisis communications.
We have all seen examples of how things can go from bad to worse when someone steps to the podium during a crisis that is unfolding and makes public pronouncements without first gathering the facts. Mishandling crisis communications can shift the focus away from the crisis at hand and make the company’s handling of the crisis the bigger story. Crisis communications is a critically important tool in the company’s arsenal during a high-profile investigation.
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In this episode, we talk about remote witness interviews and how to make the best of a bad situation using time-tested interrogation techniques and other methods. While things are starting to return to something resembling normal, our use of video conferencing as a business tool is here to stay. I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about use of body language and other techniques to try to limit a witness or deponent’s ability to be coached or misdirect the interviewer. With us today is a subject matter expert on interviewing and interrogation skills, Michael Bret Hood. Bret is the Founding Partner of 21st Century Learning & Consulting, LLC where he teaches leadership skills. He is also an adjunct professor of Corporate Governance and Ethics at University of Virginia.
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Some human beings are wonderful. Some are middle of the road and some are truly terrible. Terrible human beings are frequently indistinguishable from wonderful ones. How can we tell them apart? In the context of business relationships, the tip of the compliance spear in attempting to separate the good from the bad is frequently open source intelligence investigations. Sometimes referred to as investigative due diligence or background investigations, this investigative tool can be a game changer when it comes to counterparty risk.
Since leaving the FBI in 1996, I have overseen tens of thousands of such investigations and have designed and implemented programs to risk rank counterparties and perform investigative due diligence of customers, borrowers, investment targets, vendors and intermediaries commensurate with their potential risk.
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In this episode we going explore “bullet-proofing” your FCPA acquisition due diligence, merger integration and the government’s recent revisions to the FCPA Resource Guide and Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance. Gone are the days when the potential bribery and corruption risk of an acquisition can afford to be something assessed at the 11th hour or not at all. Successor liability stemming from undiscovered bribery activity can give rise to devastating financial consequences. Joining me today is Skadden Arps partner and FCPA luminary Gary DiBianco. Gary’s practice focuses on advising senior management and boards of directors faced with complex government or internal investigations.
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Successor liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has been a risk for companies since the statute was first enacted. But until recently, the DOJ and SEC have been deliberately vague in terms of the guidance offered and their expectations about FCPA due diligence and the time imperatives surrounding post-merger integration as it relates to combining compliance programs. That all changed in October of 2023 when Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced the implementation of DOJ’s Safe Harbor Policy for voluntary self-disclosures made in connection with Mergers and Acquisitions. Put succinctly, DAG Monaco said “we want to incentivize the acquiring company to timely disclose misconduct uncovered during the M&A process.” She further announced: “Going forward, acquiring companies that promptly and voluntarily disclose criminal misconduct within the Safe Harbor period, and that cooperate with the ensuing investigation, and engage in requisite, timely and appropriate remediation, restitution, and disgorgement – they will receive the presumption of a declination. Of particular note is that in order to qualify for the Safe Harbor, companies must disclose misconduct discovered at the acquired entity within six months from the date of closing. That applies whether the misconduct was discovered pre- or post-acquisition.
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In this episode, we delve into the psychology of white-collar criminals. White-criminal criminals are often treated differently than other categories of criminals which provokes a response unlike other crimes. White-collar criminals are not better than or more deserving of leniency than other categories of criminal, it’s just that they are wired differently and understanding that fact can better position us to help safeguard organizations from the types of crimes that white-collar criminals commit. Joining Scott on today's episode are two experts on the subject of white-collar crime psychology, Nicolas Bourtin and Eugene Soltes.
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In this episode we have an ambition agenda. We are going to provide a high level overview of virtual currencies, blockchain technology and the vital role of crypto exchange, touch upon some spectacular failures in the crypto space, how the incidence of crypto crime is going down and the role that exchanges like Binance are playing in the mitigation of crypto crime.
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The FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and Violent Crime’s Apprehension Program (ViCAP) help
coordinate cross border violent crime by assisting police departments with behavioral science profiling and by maintaining a massive law enforcement database on unsolved violent crimes largely serial murders.
Joining me today is former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi. In total, Frank served as a special agent for 25 years. Frank is the author of the new book: Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers. It is an in-depth examination of this ongoing initiative by the
FBI together with police agencies throughout the U.S.
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Human trafficking is the fastest-growing transnational crime with more than 25 million people held in forced labor and sexual exploitation. As if these numbers aren't horrifying enough, 10 million of those trafficked people are children, and yet rarely are US organizations focused on human trafficking's impact on their operations, much less society as a whole. In fact, most of us consider human trafficking to be a problem occurring in developing countries and that there are more pressing issues that should demand our attention and compliance resources. That false narrative is part of what makes human trafficking so difficult to counter.
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Host Scott Moritz was a guest speaker at the October NAVEX Next Virtual Conference joined by Gregory Coleman, a former FBI colleague, to discuss established investigation techniques and how some of these practices have changed in recent times.
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In Part 2 of this series we continue the conversation of how to bring order to the chaos of the early days of an FCPA investigation.
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In part 1 of this Fraud Eats Strategy series, we discuss how to bring order to the chaos of the early days of an FCPA investigation and avoid mortgaging the company’s future in the process.
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In part 2 of this series, we continue to discuss the tools that cybersecurity teams use to combat ransomware attacks.
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Ransomware is a type of malware used by criminal organizations to gain unlawful access to computer networks and encrypt the data stored on those networks and render it unusable. The criminal organization then holds the data hostage until a ransom payment is made. If the ransom is not paid, the victim organization’s data will either remain encrypted and unusable or it could be released to the public.
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Monitorships, transaction lookbacks and KYC remediations are the equivalents of a regulatory vote of no confidence. They can be incredibly disruptive, painful and can cost millions of dollars to implement. They are extreme measures that are taken when regulators have seen no improvement in succeeding regulatory exams or sometimes happen without warning when a criminal investigation reveals how an institution was at the center of a large scale money laundering or dollar clearing criminal enterprise and their anti-money laundering or sanctions compliance program and the controls underlying them failed in spectacular fashion. These epic anti-money laundering failures lead regulators to conclude that the existing program was so ineffective it is highly likely that suspicious activity, possibly a great deal of suspicious activity, has been going on undetected and unreported for a period of years.
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