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- The Compliance Officer's Function within a Company - The Federal Supreme Court decides on compliance officers' criminal liability regarding violation of their duties and challenges the compliance organizations within the companies.
Originally published 22 December 2009 Keywords: BGH, public law, fraud, board member, corporate duty, criminal law A Compliance Officer's Responsi...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2010, January 2010
- Twenty-Eight Words: Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties Through Criminal Prosecution of Honest Services Fraud
This article examines the federal government's growing use of 18 USC § 1346 to prosecute public company executives for breaching their fiduciary duties. Section 1346 is a controversial but under-examined statute making it a felony to engage in a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Although enacted by Congress over twenty years ago, the Supreme Court repeatedly declined to review the statute, until now. The questions before the Supreme Court are of particular interest to public company executives and their professional advisors. Traditionally, Delaware law has governed the content and enforcement of executives' legal duties, largely protecting public company fiduciaries from civil liability. Now, with the emergence of honest services fraud as a weapon ...
- Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
- Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, January 2010
- Israeli Spam Law May Have Global Impact
A broad new law in Israel regulating commercial solicitations, including those sent by email, went into effect Dec 1, 2008. The law called Amendment 40 to the Communications Law, regulates the practice of sending commercial marketing materials to recipients without their consent via email, fax, automatic phone dialing systems, or short messaging technologies (SMS, MMS). It includes both civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance, including personal liability for officers and those in charge of a company's marketing or ad activities. Some details about the law, which may impact senders of commercial email based outside Israel, is presented.
- Information Today
- Vol. 26 Nbr. 2, February 2009

- Research and Markets: The Book 'Protecting Your Company against Civil & Criminal Liability' Arguably Provides the Most Comprehensive Coverage of the Entire Scope of Sarbanes-Oxley.
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=567180) has announced the addition of "Protecting ...
- Business Wire
- November 13, 2007
- Duties Of Directors At Financially Troubled Companies.
... owed by directors of a UK incorporated company can shift when financial difficulties arise and th... give rise to serious offences carrying criminal liability and unlimited fines. . Reducing the risk...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- Maryland Lawyers On the Move: August 21, 2011
Whiteford Taylor & Preston has hired two partners, Terrence M.R. Zic and Kathleen S. Corpus, for its products liability & environmental litigation group. Zic and Corpus, who were previously at LeClair Ryan, have handled asbestos discovery matters nationwide on behalf of a Big Three auto company based in Michigan. Zic, a past chair of the Montgomery County Trial Courts Nominating Commission, will be in the firm's Columbia office. Corpus will work from the firm's new office in Dearborn, Mich. Rachel Kamins joined the litigation practice of Offit[broken bar]Kurman this month as a principal in its Baltimore/Washington office in Maple Lawn. Kamins represents criminal defendants in state and federal courts. Her practice areas include state and federal appeals, state and federal post convicti...
- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- August 28, 2011
- The International Comparative Legal Guide To: Business Crime 2012 - A Practical Cross-Border Insight Into Business Crime (Romania).
GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT . 1.1. What authorities can prosec... - executives or shareholders of a company or any other persons that lawfully or unlawfully b.... 3.2. Is there liability for inchoate crimes in Romania? Can a person be li...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- Two ways to think about the punishment of corporations.
... the history of corporate criminal liability from William Blackstone through Arthur Andersen. I... New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company v. United States, (26) the Supreme Court muttered ...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 46 Nbr. 4, September 2009
- The International Comparative Legal Guide To: Business Crime 2012 - A Practical Cross-Border Insight Into Business Crime (Serbia).
...GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT . 1.1. What authorities can prosec.... However, the Corporate Criminal Liability Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, n... official position in a government or in a company. The requisite mens rea state is intent. . Bribery...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- White collar crime's gray area: the anomaly of criminalizing conduct not civilly actionable.
... for conduct that does not invoke civil liability risks disrupting the current scheme of securities ...The company "was 'optimistic' about its earnings and 'expected...
- Albany Law Review
- Vol. 72 Nbr. 1, January 2009