There’s a new deputy sheriff in town and her name is Sally Quillian Yates, deputy attorney general of the United States

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• Business Ethics
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• CASE STUDY (20 Marks)
• Theres a new deputy sheriff in town and
  her name is Sally Quillian Yates, deputy attorney
  general of the United States. In September, she
  announced significant Department of Justice
  policy shifts in the prosecution of corporate
  wrongdoing. Monday her memo was clarified, making
  it even clearer that the DOJ wants companies to
  cooperate and do so in a timely way. The changes,
  six of them listed below, are a sea change in
  leadership direction at the DOJ. The thrust of
  the changes moves from seeking the most amount of
  money from corporate coffers to insuring that
  individuals are held accountable for crimes they
  commit on the corporate watch.

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• Is this a big deal? You bet. These new
  guidelines will likely change how executives and
  boards and ethics and compliance functions divvy
  up internal investigations to protect interests
  that have been separated with these changes. No
  longer are the employee accused and the company
  where that employee works going to find mutual
  benefit in a shared defense. Remember Prisoners
  Dilemma, the economic game theory you learned in
  college that introduced the concept of win-win in
  negotiating. The game proves that people do not
  always act rationally and sometimes can achieve a
  better outcome by cooperating than pursuing just
  their self-interest. It uses captured criminals
  in separate interrogation rooms to demonstrate
  these effects. Each would get the best outcome
  for himself if he turned in his fellow criminal
  but if they both act in their own self-interest,
  their punishment is even greater.

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• In other words, it was a win-win for them
  to collaborate and seek a solution that worked
  for both of them even though an initial analysis
  might have led them to believe that not
  collaborating, or cooperating, with one another
  would serve their personal interests more. In a
  beautiful, ironic twist, Yates is deploying the
  prisoners dilemma to turn up the heat on
  white-collar criminals. Yes, the notion of two
  people choosing not to be truthful is a
  paradoxical choice to use in discussing how these
  policy shifts will change the dynamics in
  corporate corruption investigations. Yates has
  introduced six key changes, outlined here, that
  effectively drive a wedge between employee and
  employer when it comes to doing wrong in the name
  of a corporation. Now, internal corporate
  compliance officers must share internal
  information implicating employees who acted
  badlyor their supervisorsor risk steeper fines
  or other penalties.

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• Answer the following question.
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• Q1. Give an overview of the case.
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• Q2. How it is possible to separate ethics from
  compliance in corporate life.Debate.
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