Tue, 05/01/2012 - 1:49am
This article’s main focus is the extent to which the U.K. Bribery Act 2010 and the Guidance Document prepared by the Secretary of State, addressing the procedures that commercial organizations can put into place to prevent bribery, include whistleblower protection. The article also examines provisions for whistleblower protection in the four anti-corruption conventions that the U.K. has ratified in order to provide the context for a discussion of whistleblower protection in the Bribery Act and in the Guidance Document.
Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:43am
In this article, the author analyzes a recent court decision that shows how courts, if presented with enough persuasive facts, can and should cut through a maze of offshore shell companies created solely to channel money between investors and actively operating affiliates.
Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:16am
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The authors provide a broad overview of common questions that arise under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The answers provide a handy reference guide for basic questions about this much-publicized enforcement tool for the government.|
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Steven Meyerowitz has been blogging about these issues for the past several years. In Financial Fraud Law and in A.S. Pratt’s Financial Fraud Law Report, he has brought together some of the preeminent subject matter experts in the field. Mr. Meyerowitz is the editor-in-chief of the Financial Fraud Law Report and his Board of Editors and the contributors to this site are leading practitioners in the field of financial fraud law. For nearly five years, Mr. Meyerowitz was an attorney for a prominent Wall Street law firm before founding Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a consulting company that works with some of the largest and most successful law firms in the country in the area of marketing communications law. Mr. Meyerowitz is also editor-in-chief of A.S. Pratt & Sons’ prestigious publication, The Banking Law Journal, as well as Pratt’s Privacy and Data Security Law Journal. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. |
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There are two places in the country where food stamp recipients have to be fingerprinted before they can collect these federal benefits: Arizona and New York City. The point of fingerprinting poor people in this situation is to cut down on fraud; that is, to try to eliminate food stamps going to people who are ineligible. New York City says that fingerprinting has saved more than $35 million over the past 10 years..png)
While people who engage in financial fraud are constantly changing the way they approach victims on the Internet, there are a number of scams that turn up again and again. Here are a few examples of the types of schemes to be on the lookout for when using social media:
The laws, regulations, and issues surrounding financial fraud are some of the most important concerns to businesses and banking today. 
