Your company has uncovered a massive criminal scheme. You want to get out of it – you serve up the mastermind on a silver platter for the Justice Department prosecutors. You’re working with the Justice Department and you have to deliver to them one key aspect – individuals who were responsible must be held accountable. You conduct a thorough internal investigation and you collect, analyze...

Your company uncovers a massive criminal scheme. Are you gonna go down with the ship or are you gonna grab onto the lifeboat that the Justice Department has sent your way? The era of big corporate fines is over, and you have to make sure that you get your company through this without a big fine. What do you do? The Justice Department’s corporate enforcement...

So approximately 10-20% of your third parties are going to present serious AI risks. How do you mitigate those risks? Here’s what you do. One, you assess your needs and identify the risk calculation for each of your third parties, and then you seek two fundamental solutions. Two, contractual provisions are critical, and there’s 6 of them that you need. You have to restrict data...

In this episode of Corruption, Crime, and Compliance, Michael Volkov interviews Kilby Macfadden, J.D., CCEP, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at KPMG LLP, where she serves as Head of Investigations overseeing complex ethics, compliance, and enterprise risk matters. Drawing on her extensive experience in government enforcement and corporate compliance, Kilby discusses the growing importance of organizational justice, building employee trust in internal reporting systems, and creating...

In this episode, we examine how organizational justice and effective internal investigation systems sit at the core of the U.S. Department of Justice evaluation of corporate compliance programs. Drawing on benchmarking data from NAVEX Global and research from George Washington University, we explain why strong speak-up cultures generate more internal reports, detect misconduct earlier, and reduce enforcement risk. We also outline DOJ expectations for timely,...