DOJ announced two significant executive sentencings within a day of each other this week, and while the underlying conduct is different, a bank CEO’s fraud and sanctions evasion scheme versus an oil trader’s foreign bribery scheme, both cases carry the same underlying message for compliance officers: individual accountability for executive-level misconduct remains a live, active DOJ priority, and prison sentences in the range of four...

If you’ve been reading Corruption, Crime and Compliance for a while, you already know we cover a lot of ground here, enforcement actions, sanctions developments, board governance, AI risk, and everything in between. But if you’re only catching these posts when they cross your feed, you’re missing a lot of the content we put out every week across several different channels. Here’s a quick rundown...

Part 1 of this series covered where EU AI Act enforcement genuinely stands today: prohibited practices enforceable since February 2025, general-purpose AI obligations running since August 2025, the Commission’s first formal investigations opened in June 2026 into hiring, credit scoring, and student monitoring AI systems, and full enforcement and fining authority active since August 2026. In Part 2, we look at what the Digital Omnibus...

For years, compliance officers could talk about the EU AI Act as a looming, mostly future obligation, something to plan for rather than something actively enforced. That era is over. As of August 2, 2026, the European Commission, acting through its European AI Office, holds formal investigative and enforcement authority over general-purpose AI model providers and over the Act’s prohibited AI practices, and the agency...

The House of Representatives voted 262 to 159 on the night of September 16 to approve a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill, sending it to President Trump for his expected signature. The legislation, renamed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act after the late South Carolina senator who championed it for more than a year before his death in July, cleared the...