Posts Tagged ‘Trump’
Importance of ‘Feeling Heard,’ Yet Again
By now most people have heard that grand juries in Washington and Chicago are declining to indict people arrested for anti-ICE protests. The political subtext here is that juries in Democratic regions won’t indict people arrested by the Trump Administration. What does that tell us about the breakdown in cultural norms within large organizations? That…
Read MoreWhen Trump Tells You to Eat It
Here’s a conundrum of corporate governance for you: What should you do when the president of the United States starts hectoring your company to keep its prices low, even at the expense of profit margins? This is not a hypothetical. It is yet another outburst from President Trump, who opened fire on Walmart this weekend…
Read MoreOh, Great: Trump Memecoin Risk
Another sign of our ethically challenged times in the Trump 2.0 era: a freight logistics company in Texas is planning to buy as much as $20 million’ worth of President Trump’s personal cryptocurrency, so the company can “advocate for fair, balanced, and free trade between Mexico and the U.S.” Translation: the company, Freight Technologies Inc.,…
Read MoreInternal Controls Come for Trump
At long last, we have an internal controls and compliance angle on Donald Trump’s courtroom drama! When Trump was ordered last week to pay $355 million in damages for his civil fraud trial in New York, the judge in the case also ordered the Trump Organization to hire a director of financial compliance. This person,…
Read MorePre-Taliation in Trump Fraud Trial!
Well this is about as surprising as sunrise in the east: a hot corporate compliance issue just made a guest appearance in the civil fraud trial against Donald Trump that’s unfolding in New York this week. Turns out that the former president (may he ever remain so) included a pre-taliation clause in the employment contract…
Read MoreTrump, the Coup, and Corporate Ethics
Corporate America might be hoping that the difficult issues raised by President Trump’s attempted coup this week and the remaining days of his term will somehow pass them by. Too bad. What Trump has unleashed isn’t something businesses will be able to avoid. In several practical ways, dealing with Trump and his minions — both…
Read MoreThe Biden Administration & Compliance
Well, thank the Lord this is ending. The Trump Administration has given the United States (and the world) four years of ignorance, incompetence, immorality, greed, divisiveness, and corruption. President Trump has been a singular menace to this country and the American experiment; and also to corporations that have struggled to navigate the cultural divisions Trump…
Read MoreThe Sound & Fury of Trump Regulation
Setting corporate strategy and regulatory compliance has never easy during the Trump Administration, and an article from the New York Times earlier this week demonstrates why that’s so. The article is worth a compliance officer’s time, since it’s quite possible we’re about to enter a period of even greater regulatory and political mess. The piece…
Read MoreWhat the Shootings Mean for Ethics & Compliance
This week Tom Fox and I dedicated our usual Compliance Into the Weeds podcast to the ethics and compliance implications of the mass shootings that happened in El Paso and Dayton last weekend. Nobody relishes analyzing something so painful for so many — but corporations are foolish to ignore what’s happening in this country, and…
Read MoreEthics Lessons in Trump Tweets
Occasionally President Trump raises some thought-provoking points for ethics and compliance officers. Not the usual stupid stuff showcasing the ethical decay of the Trump Administration, mind you — but rather, genuinely relevant issues about corporate ethics and compliance programs, that don’t always have clear answers. Trump did that twice this week, which is two times…
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