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The FCPA Guidance is an advertisement for the government’s voluntary disclosure program. DOJ and SEC repeat their message – if you voluntarily disclose, you will get a benefit. As demonstrated in the declinations, companies that disclose will receive a benefit.While I am reluctant to point to bring religion into
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The FCPA Guidance includes some important reminders for compliance practitioners. Most significantly, DOJ and SEC want companies to reinvigorate their risk assessment process. In the absence of an effective risk assessment, companies are likely to allocate compliance resources without proper regard for specific risks. Such a deficiency will permeate every
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Healthcare fraudsters do not discriminate between private and public medical insurance. Fraudsters use similar schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid and private insurance companies. Most healthcare providers bill public and private payers. For example, a health care provider may be billing Medicare, Medicaid and several private health plans (in-network
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I find the so-called “vampire” cultural phenomena scary – I do not understand what is so entertaining about “ordinary” people who can suddenly turn into vampires, let alone enter into “serious” relationships with each other or with so-called “normal” humans.Maybe I am stuck in the past when “Night
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I am really enjoying reading and re-reading the FCPA Guidance. It is a fascinating document, well written and chock full of salient points, messages, explicit and implicit.For me, the most important issues are those that are in the so-called “gray area.” Some of the hypotheticals and the