U.S. Sentencing Commission statistics indicate that companies charged with federal crimes have been doing an awful job of creating effective programs to detect and deter employees' criminal acts.
New Steps for an Effective Company Compliance Program
U.S. Sentencing Commission statistics indicate that companies charged with federal crimes have been doing an awful job of creating effective programs to detect and deter employees' criminal acts. According to the Commission, of the more than 850 companies convicted of crimes from 1995 through 2002, only two had a compliance program that a federal judge recognized as effective. In one respect, this is not surprising, as federal prosecutors routinely argue that if a company had an effective compliance program, the company wouldn't have committed the crime in the first place, and the court wouldn't be spending its time in a sentencing hearing.
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