Meanwhile … At The FCPA’s “Dog And Pony Show”
The FCPA “dog and pony” show took place last week.
This year it was Chief Counselor Brent Wible who delivered the DOJ speech.
Topics addressed included looking “back at [the DOJ’s] achievements [in 2024] in the fight against foreign bribery; holding culpable individuals accountable; securing impactful corporate resolutions; and advancing the department’s corporate enforcement priorities and policies.”
Wible stated:
Another Day, Another DOJ Speech
Another day, another speech by a Department of Justice official.
This time it was Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller with this speech at the New York City Bar Association Compliance Institute.
Miller stated that the purpose of his speech was to “take stock of the Department’s programmatic overhaul of corporate criminal enforcement in recent years, to discuss how that overhaul is designed to empower compliance programs and professionals, and to take a look around the corner to what’s ahead.”
Miller began:
Thoughts Regarding One Of The Recent Speeches By A DOJ Official
Prior posts here and here highlighted recent speeches delivered by DOJ Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri.
This post concerns Argentieri’s speech from last week and a future post will focus on Argentieri’s speech earlier this week.
It has been interesting to read some of the commentary on these recent speeches.
But then again, I read these speeches through the following lenses.
Another Day, Another DOJ Speech
It is September which means enforcement agency officials hit the “conference circuit” to give scripted speeches.
Last week it was DOJ Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri delivering a speech to a corporate compliance audience in New York (see here for the prior post), yesterday it was Argentieri delivering a speech to a corporate compliance event in Texas.
Argentieri began:
DOJ Principal Deputy Assistant AG Argentieri Speaks On The DOJ’s Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
It is September which means enforcement agency officials hit the “conference circuit” to give scripted speeches.
Yesterday, it was DOJ Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri who delivered this speech at a corporate compliance event focused on the “newest tool in the Justice Department’s corporate enforcement toolbox: The Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program.”