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The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance

Nov 11, 2022

On this week’s episode, Stroock Partner Tom Firestone talks to Bruce Ohr, formerly head of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces at DOJ and now a strategist with the International Wildlife Trust, an NGO committed to combatting illegal wildlife trafficking...


Oct 19, 2022

On this week’s episode, Stroock Partner Tom Firestone talks to Andrew McCabe, former Acting Director of the FBI and now a CNN commentator and professor at George Mason University, and author of The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.

Tom and Andrew discuss:

  • The Trump Mar-a-Lago...


Oct 11, 2022

On this week’s episode of “The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance,” Stroock Partner Tom Firestone talks to Nader Uskowi who has served as a senior advisor to the Pentagon on some of the most sensitive policy issues in Iran and Afghanistan. Nader is also the president of Sagewood Consulting LLC, and is...


Sep 30, 2022

On this week’s episode of “The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance,” Stroock Partner Tom Firestone talks to Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB).

 

Tom and Drago discuss these and other topics:

 

  • Drago’s lessons learned from 9 years as the head of the WGB
  • The WGB’s latest...


Sep 26, 2022

On this week’s episode of “The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance,” Stroock Partner Tom Firestone talks to Elisabeth Schimpföessl, a political sociologist at Aston University, Birmingham, England. Elisabeth is the author of Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie, a sociological study of Russia’s...