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19 Jul, 2026

Episode 434 — Due Diligence in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Dan Greenberg

In this episode of Corruption, Crime and Compliance, Michael Volkov sits down with Dan Greenberg, founder of Greenberg Corporate Intelligence, to unpack how due diligence and corporate investigations have evolved over Dan’s fifteen-plus years in the field. They cover the uneven state of corporate transparency worldwide, from the UK’s Companies House registry to persistent secrecy havens in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and even certain U.S....
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16 Jul, 2026

Foreign Bribery Has No Borders

When it comes to foreign bribery, borders provide no protection. The European Union just approved one of the most significant anti-corruption initiatives in decades, and multinational companies have to pay attention. The EU’s Anti-Corruption Directive is designed to harmonize anti-corruption enforcement across the member states. It expands corruption offenses, strengthens enforcement tools, and increases accountability for both individuals and organizations. Companies operating in Europe can...
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15 Jul, 2026

The New Frontier: When AI Is the Subject of Your Internal Investigation (Part III of III)

This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. Most of the conversation about AI and internal investigations focuses on AI as a tool — how investigators can use it, and how to manage the risks when they do. But there is a...
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15 Jul, 2026

When AI Goes Wrong in Internal Investigations: Five Failure Modes Every Company Should Fear (Part II of III)

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. AI tools promise to transform internal investigations — faster document review, instant summaries of witness interviews, pattern detection across millions of communications. The promise is real. So are the risks. Companies rushing to deploy...
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14 Jul, 2026

How Many Red Flags Are You Missing?

How many red flags is your company missing? We’ve seen this pattern repeatedly. A third-party red flag appears. No one knows who owns the escalation process. Business pressure overrides compliance concerns. Documentation is incomplete. Monitoring never occurs. When the regulators arrive, the company can’t demonstrate effective oversight. The problem is not simply the underlying misconduct. The problem is the inability to prove that the company...

19 Jul, 2026

Episode 434 — Due Diligence in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Dan Greenberg

In this episode of Corruption, Crime and Compliance, Michael Volkov sits down with Dan Greenberg, founder of Greenberg Corporate Intelligence, to unpack how due diligence and corporate investigations have evolved over Dan’s fifteen-plus years in the field. They cover the uneven state of corporate transparency worldwide, from the UK’s Companies House registry to persistent secrecy havens in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and even certain U.S....

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16 Jul, 2026

Foreign Bribery Has No Borders

When it comes to foreign bribery, borders provide no protection. The European Union just approved one of the most significant anti-corruption initiatives in decades, and multinational companies have to pay attention. The EU’s Anti-Corruption Directive is designed to harmonize anti-corruption enforcement across the member states. It expands corruption offenses, strengthens enforcement tools, and increases accountability for both individuals and organizations. Companies operating in Europe can...

General

15 Jul, 2026

The New Frontier: When AI Is the Subject of Your Internal Investigation (Part III of III)

This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. Most of the conversation about AI and internal investigations focuses on AI as a tool — how investigators can use it, and how to manage the risks when they do. But there is a...

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15 Jul, 2026

When AI Goes Wrong in Internal Investigations: Five Failure Modes Every Company Should Fear (Part II of III)

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. AI tools promise to transform internal investigations — faster document review, instant summaries of witness interviews, pattern detection across millions of communications. The promise is real. So are the risks. Companies rushing to deploy...

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14 Jul, 2026

How Many Red Flags Are You Missing?

How many red flags is your company missing? We’ve seen this pattern repeatedly. A third-party red flag appears. No one knows who owns the escalation process. Business pressure overrides compliance concerns. Documentation is incomplete. Monitoring never occurs. When the regulators arrive, the company can’t demonstrate effective oversight. The problem is not simply the underlying misconduct. The problem is the inability to prove that the company...

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12 Jul, 2026

AI and Your Internal Investigation Program (Part I of III)

This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. Every compliance professional knows the drill — the Justice Department speaks, and compliance programs adjust. When DOJ updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) to address artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, most companies...

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12 Jul, 2026

Episode 433 — The Corruption Reckoning: How Government Corruption Destroys Economies, Democracies, and Societies

Government corruption is often viewed as a political problem, but its consequences extend far beyond government institutions. Corruption distorts economies, undermines democratic legitimacy, destroys public trust, and weakens the social fabric upon which civil society depends. In this episode, Michael Volkov explores the full impact of corruption across economic, political, and social dimensions and explains why anti-corruption compliance efforts represent far more than regulatory risk...

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10 Jul, 2026

The Social Fabric Unravels: Corruption, Inequality, and the Collapse of Civic Society (Part III of III)

In the first two articles in this series, we examined corruption’s devastating impact on economic systems and its corrosive effect on democratic institutions and political legitimacy. In this concluding piece, we turn to the dimension that receives the least attention and may be the most consequential: what corruption does to the social fabric — the norms, relationships, and shared institutions that make civil society possible....

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9 Jul, 2026

Democracy’s Termites: How Corruption Hollows Out Political Institutions from Within (Part II of III)

Democracies are not destroyed overnight. They do not typically fall to tanks rolling through capital cities or dramatic coups broadcast live on state television. More often, they are hollowed out slowly, incrementally, from within — by corruption that erodes the institutions designed to hold power accountable until those institutions become shells, performing the rituals of democracy while delivering none of its substance. Corruption is democracy’s...

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9 Jul, 2026

Regulators Want Proof It Works

If your third-party risk management program uses annual questionnaires and spreadsheets, your program is already obsolete. The third-party risk environment has fundamentally changed. It used to focus on financial stability, insurance, and basic due diligence. Today, your vendors create exposures to AI risks, cybersecurity threats, sanctions violations, privacy failures, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory enforcement. Regulators are no longer asking whether you have a third-party...

Featured Articles:

Episode 434 — Due Diligence in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Dan Greenberg

Foreign Bribery Has No Borders

The New Frontier: When AI Is the Subject of Your Internal Investigation (Part III of III)

When AI Goes Wrong in Internal Investigations: Five Failure Modes Every Company Should Fear (Part II of III)

How Many Red Flags Are You Missing?

Episode 434 — Due Diligence in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Dan Greenberg

Foreign Bribery Has No Borders

The New Frontier: When AI Is the Subject of Your Internal Investigation (Part III of III)

When AI Goes Wrong in Internal Investigations: Five Failure Modes Every Company Should Fear (Part II of III)

How Many Red Flags Are You Missing?

AI and Your Internal Investigation Program (Part I of III)

Episode 433 — The Corruption Reckoning: How Government Corruption Destroys Economies, Democracies, and Societies

The Social Fabric Unravels: Corruption, Inequality, and the Collapse of Civic Society (Part III of III)

Democracy’s Termites: How Corruption Hollows Out Political Institutions from Within (Part II of III)

Regulators Want Proof It Works

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