Joe Murphy, Author at AntitrustConnect Blog

By Joe Murphy

Joe Murphy has worked in the organizational compliance and ethics area for over thirty-five years. Joe was previously Senior Attorney, Corporate Compliance, at Bell Atlantic Corporation, where he was architect and lawyer for Bell Atlantic’s worldwide corporate compliance program. Joe was co-founder and vice-chairman of the board of Integrity Interactive Corporation (now part of SAI Global). He has worked on compliance and ethics matters on six continents, and assisted government agencies, NGOs and companies across a broad range of industries.

compliance programs, U.S. Department of Justice, Uncategorized

Making the Sentencing Guidelines Message Complete

Joe Murphy (Compliance Strategists)/July 28, 2014 /1 Comment

As the U.S. Sentencing Commission considers reforms of the guidelines for antitrust crimes, it should take action to affirm the importance of antitrust compliance programs as an essential tool in the fight against cartels, and to provide a balance against the Antitrust Division’s past approach of refusing to consider compliance programs in any case for…

compliance programs, Conspiracy to Restrain Trade, Price Fixing, U.S. Department of Justice

The Auto Parts Antitrust Case: Is This What Success Looks Like?

Joe Murphy (Compliance Strategists)/October 31, 2013 /Leave a comment

Wow, what a success! The Antitrust Division recently announced that its investigations in the auto parts market uncovered “separate conspiracies to fix the prices of more than 30 different products sold to US car manufacturers ….” [1] This adds to the results thus far in the investigation, with guilty pleas from 20 companies and fines…