Fcpa Compliance Report

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive, literally into the weeds of the convergence of the compliance profession and the nascent cannabis industry. While several states have made pot for medical use legal and one state, Colorado has made it legal for personal consumption, it is still illegal under federal law. We consider such questions as: Lawyers and accountants are required to report large cash transactions to the federal government—but large cash transactions are common in the cannabis industry, since commercial operators don’t have easy access to the banking system. So if you report one of these transactions, are you turning over evidence of illegal activities of your client to authorities? Or do you not report, and risk sanctions against yourself? If the Justice Department does act against a commercial weed business, will prosecutors really seek to impanel a federal grand jury, with jurors drawn from a state where they voted to legalize? Could prosecutors ask a candidate juror whether he or