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Chasing Bernie’s Billions: Inside the Most Successful Asset Recovery Effort in History
On December 11th, 2008 Bernie Madoff was arrested by the FBI in his Manhattan home and criminally charged with a multi-million-dollar securities fraud scheme. So began the most comprehensive and successful financial investigation and asset search in history. The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) Trustee and Baker Hostetler have continued their tireless search for assets…
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Keeping Dirty Money Offshore: Corporate Transparency Act Makes U.S. Less of a Safe Haven
On April 3rd, 2016, information about 214,488 offshore companies established by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca leaked. The leak comprised over 11 million documents and 2.6 TB of data and opened a rare glimpse into how the wealthy and powerful shelter their income and conceal their wealth. Named in the leak were 12 current or…
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From Systemically Corrupt to Above Reproach: Examining Siemens’ Remarkable Turnaround
Peter Solmssen was brought into Siemens to accomplish the impossible – upend the morally bankrupt, corrupt culture of Siemens that was systematically paying bribes in every corner of the world and transform it into a model of compliance reform and ethical culture. Peter and former SEC FCPA Unit Chief Kara Brockmeyer joined me to discuss…
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Did Your New Refrigerator Help Fund Terrorism? Trade-Based Money Laundering Exploits Demand for Consumer Goods
Of the three primary methods that transnational criminal and terrorist organizations utilize to launder the proceeds of illicit activity and finance terrorism, trade-based money laundering is arguably the most challenging. Most people associate money laundering with the misuse of financial institutions or the bulk movement of hard currency using smuggling techniques, but trade-based money laundering…
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The Interrelationship Between Major Investigations and Crisis Communications
In 2020 and continuing into 2021, the term crisis communications seems almost redundant. We are bombarded every day with information about the pandemic death toll and infection rates, the largest cyber-attack in history, the financial crisis, efforts to overturn a presidential election and an attack on the US Capitol building while Congress was in session.…
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Operationalizing Compliance – Fraud Eats Strategy
- Operationalizing Compliance
- Investigations for Non-Investigators: Holding Down the Fort
- Pawns, Goofs, Collaborators and Lone Wolves: An Examination of Insider Threats
- Keeping Criminality Out of the Casino
- Destigmatizing Whistle-Blowers: The SEC's Office of the Whistleblower 10 Years In – Best Practices for Companies in a Brave New World
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