April 17th, 2018
The former boxer may regret saying, “You can call me Floyd Crypto Mayweather from now on.”When federal authorities recently charged two 20-something cryptocurrency promoters with lying to investors, it was “a harsh awakening for celebrities who have entered the wild west of initial coin offerings amid the Bitcoin craze,” Fortune magazine said. Boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled had been social-media promoters of the cryptocurrency company Centra Tech Inc., […]
April 9th, 2018
Making Inquiries With Former Co-workers Can Spotlight Past Sexual HarassmentClients of the Mintz Group looking to hire executives are increasingly asking us for help in determining whether a job applicant has engaged in sexual harassment in their past. A major U.S. law firm, performing an internal investigation of an alleged pattern of sexual harassment by an NPR executive, has proposed confidential interviews with the applicants’ […]
April 4th, 2018
SEC Challenges Kinross For Not Doing Source Inquiries and Other Enhanced Due-Diligence.When operating a gold mine in an African country known for corruption, try to be thorough in doing due-diligence on your contractors. If you skip steps, you might run afoul of anti-corruption laws. A few years ago, Toronto-based Kinross Gold Corp. was launching a gold mine in the northwestern African nation of Mauritania, and […]
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