Insights

Moving the Compliance Needle in Latin America

In a recent interview of Paul Hastings’ Nisa Gosselink-Ulep, we posed the question: can the imposition of monitorships and “leniency agreements” move the compliance needle in Latin America? Petrobras, Braskem, Odebrecht, Stericycle and other U.S. style compliance and regulatory actions continue to be more commonplace across Latin America in the past decade. This has led […]

Without Fear or Favor: The Climate within the Inspector General Community

In March of 2025, Former Inspector General of the Department of the Interior Mark Lee Greenblatt and I discussed the firing of the Inspectors General and its far-reaching implications for the country. With the blizzard of Executive Orders, high profile government firings and other maneuvers that appear to continue to tear down government agencies, it […]

Monitorships and Leniency Agreements in Latin America

Petrobras, Braskem, Odebrecht, Stericycle and other U.S. style compliance and regulatory actions continue to be more commonplace across Latin America in the past decade. Indeed, there has been a tectonic shift in the implementation of leading industry compliance program overhauls following significant investigations and prosecutions. Some of those matters have included the use of legal […]

Conducting Investigations Safely Across Latin America

The world is a turbulent place in 2025. And doing business outside of the U.S. means needing to understand and to be able to react to a dynamic and rapidly evolving risk environment. The many countries and amazing people comprising Latin America are an important customer base and trading partner. Many global businesses have significant […]

Exporting Compliance – Conducting Compliance Investigations Across Latin America

The world is a turbulent place in 2025 and doing business outside of the U.S. means needing to understand and to be able to react to a dynamic and evolving risk environment. The many countries and amazing people comprising Latin America are an important customer base and trading partner for most global organizations. Many global […]

White Collar Forensic Quick Facts

A professional services firm rises and falls on it’s personnel. If they are highly skilled, experienced and accomplished listeners who are able to execute consistently and team players, they thrive. That is the type of team we have sought to assemble at White Collar Forensic. White Collar Forensic is unconstrained by some of the constructs […]

Latin America is Open for Business: Myriad Risks and Bountiful Opportunities

Overview Latin America remains open for business, with a landscape marked by both promising opportunities and evolving risks. Economic growth is expected to continue, although at a modest pace, as regional GDP is projected to rise by about 2% to 2.5%, with some countries like Argentina and Panama outperforming the average while others, such as […]

The Last of the Watchdogs

🥊 Perhaps the biggest body blow in the recent history of federal law enforcement came on January 24, 2025 with the firing of 16 inspectors general and a 17th 2 weeks later. 🕵🏽 I interviewed former Inspector General Michael Missal, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and former Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt, U.S. Department of […]

Pig Butchering: The Fraud That is Even Worse Than It Sounds

Of the various fraud scheme names that have been coined over the years, pig butchering is one that provokes the most visceral response. Yet the actual act of pig butchering is even more horrible than the name suggests. It is the latest variation of an age old type of crime under the umbrella of romance […]

Navigating Complex Threats: How Investigative Due Diligence & Compliance Expertise Unite

Increasingly, the threats facing global organizations are layered, complex, and require expertise spanning multiple disciplines. Fraud, financial and property crime have converged with cybercrime. Theft of intellectual property is no longer just an insider threat. Outside parties are infiltrating corporate networks and sometimes, those outside parties are acting on behalf of the intelligence agencies of […]

The Intersection of Romance Fraud and Human Trafficking

Of the various fraud scheme names that have been coined over the years, “Pig Butchering” is one that provokes the most visceral response based on the name alone. And yet, the actual act of Pig Butchering is even more horrible than the name suggests. It is the latest variation of an ago-old type of crime […]

First Office Agents: Funny Stories from Two Former FBI Agents

🎙️ #FirstOfficeAgents is the beginning of a new podcast series consisting of funny incidents from my FBI career and that of my good friend Kevin Cearlock‘s, whose stories I’ve been appropriating and retelling for decades. 🤣 We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did reliving it. And for those former agents […]