Corporate Compliance Insights

A $30 million fine, loss of years’ worth of draft picks, a one-year ban for owner Steve Ballmer and a $700,000 fine for player Kawhi Leonard. That’s the NBA’s response to a yearslong scheme to evade the league’s salary cap. But alongside the sports scandal is something much more familiar to a corporate integrity audience — a greenwashing fraud and completed training that failed to prevent bad behavior. In the second of a two-part series, CCI’s Jennifer L. Gaskin digs into how the Los Angeles Clippers scandal compares to traditional corporate enforcement and what compliance, governance and ethics leaders should be thinking about no matter their industry.