Red Flags Rising
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<p>Welcome to Red Flags Rising, where we examine how geopolitics and national security are reshaping corporate enforcement and compliance.</p><p>In an era where “economic security” drives government intervention through increasingly strict and consequential export controls, economic sanctions, inbound and outbound investment restrictions, and tariffs, legacy mindsets and assessments of enforcement risk create liability pitfalls for the uninformed.</p><p>Under the “high probability” standard driving this new enforcement playbook, spotting and effectively mitigating “red flags” has a new urgency.</p><p>We will help you identify and understand the trends, key insights, and practical solutions that are essential to companies, boards of directors, c-suite management, and compliance professionals in these turbulent times.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 29, 2026
AI Diffusion Confusion?
<p>Mike and Brent re-boot a prior recording overtaken by events, specifically the Sunday, May 31, 2026, guidance issued by BIS to global data centers and the June 12, 2026, “is-informed” letter by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that caused an AI model company to take down its latest models.</p><p>Mike and Brent first update listeners on pending legislation in the U.S. Congress (01:37). They then revisit last year’s May 13, 2025, announced intent by BIS to rescind the Biden-era “AI Diffusion Rule” (06:44), discuss questions around whether that rescission actually happened and, in any event, what was the status of U.S. export controls as a result (10:59), and then break down the May 31, 2025, guidance from BIS (15:53) including the opportunities and limitations of what reads like a “General Prohibition 10 Savings Clause” in the penultimate paragraph (19:43). They next discuss the Friday, June 12, 2026, “is-informed” letter issued by the Secretary of Commerce and its implications for industry (23:58). Then they conclude with a “Gray Rhino” edition of Brent’s “Managing Up” segment (26:18).</p><p>Contact Brent: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:brent@redflagsrising.com">brent@redflagsrising.com</a></p><p>More about Brent: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.redflagsrising.com/founder">https://www.redflagsrising.com/founder</a></p><p>Connect with Brent on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-carlson-41ba692/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-carlson-41ba692/</a></p><p>Contact Mike: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:michael.huneke@morganlewis.com">michael.huneke@morganlewis.com</a></p><p>More about Mike: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/michaelhuneke">https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/michaelhuneke</a></p><p>Connect with Mike on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhuneke/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhuneke/</a></p><p>The BIS Guidance from Sunday, May 31, 2026: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.bis.gov/media/documents/bis-guidance-may-31-2026.pdf">https://www.bis.gov/media/documents/bis-guidance-may-31-2026.pdf</a></p><p>Michele Wucker, The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore (2016): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Rhino-Recognize-Obvious-Dangers/dp/125005382X">https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Rhino-Recognize-Obvious-Dangers/dp/125005382X</a></p>
May 19, 2026
Jeff Stitt on the Craft of Compliance
<p>Mike and Brent welcome to the podcast Jeff Stitt, the President of Acacia Trail Consulting. Jeff walks through how he went from becoming an engineer to being an on-the-spot chief compliance offer appointee in 1992 (01:36), to doing compliance at a bank (05:51), to having the opportunity to build and run a compliance program across Sub-Saharan Africa (08:00), and then to integrating a major acquisition into his company’s compliance program (12:10). Jeff explains how compliance programs are really “underwriting” the business’s activities (14:00) and then talks about the opportunity to build-out a global compliance program at a publicly traded company (16:30). Jeff concludes with a discussion about Acacia Trail (19:28) and what he’s seeing in the trade compliance space today (21:14). Mike and Brent then conclude with another edition of Brent Carlson’s Managing-Up (22:11).</p><p>Contact Jeff: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:jeff@acaciatrail.com">jeff@acaciatrail.com</a></p><p>More about Jeff: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstitt/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstitt/</a></p><p>Contact Brent: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:brent@redflagsrising.com">brent@redflagsrising.com</a></p><p>More about Brent: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.redflagsrising.com">www.redflagsrising.com</a></p><p>Contact Mike: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:michael.huneke@morganlewis.com">michael.huneke@morganlewis.com</a></p><p>More about Mike: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/michaelhuneke">https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/michaelhuneke</a></p>
April 29, 2026
Pull, Push, Tap, Aim, Fire - What Recent Settlements and Indictments Teach about Clearing Compliance Jams
<p>Mike and Brent return to discuss lessons from Brent’s Aikido instructor and Marine Corps combat veteran Frank Doran and how those lessons can help trade compliance professional work through compliance jams. Mike and Brent discuss the enforcement wave that unfolded in March 2026 (01:28); their March 10, 2026, National Security Law & Enforcement event in New York City (01:51); how that event was designed to get to practical solutions (02:30); the need today to have a broader “compliance aperture” (03:59); the importance of effective communication up to management and boards, especially around “central compliance risks” (the standard under Delaware law) (04:37); Carole Basri’s prediction that soon many companies will have Chief National Security Officers (05:31); two significant enforcement actions from Q1 2026 (07:42); the DOJ National Security Division’s March 30, 2026, announcement regarding voluntary disclosures (11:37); two significant indictments from Q1 2026 (12:06); boards of directors’ duty of oversight when it comes to national security (13:39); the relevance of increased agitation from the U.S. Congress for more enforcement (18:39); the status of the proposed Remote Access Security Act (19:35); and what is the compliance path forward, including Brent’s Fraud Four Circle Framework (21:57). Mike and Brent then conclude with a special edition of Brent Carlson’s “Managing Up” about Frank Doran and the meaning and importance—to not only infantrymen but also compliance professionals—of “Pull, Push, Tap, Aim, Fire” (24:40).</p><p>BIS enforcement actions: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.bis.gov/enforcement/export-violations">https://www.bis.gov/enforcement/export-violations</a></p><p>DOJ NSD Voluntary Disclosure Policy (Mar. 30, 2026): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/reporting-voluntary-self-disclosures-violations-national-security-laws-under-department-wide">https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/reporting-voluntary-self-disclosures-violations-national-security-laws-under-department-wide</a></p><p>More about Frank Doran: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aikido-west.org/frank-doran">https://aikido-west.org/frank-doran</a></p><p>Frank Doran, "Pull, Push, Tap, Aim, Fire" (1995): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aikido-west.org/pull-push-tap-aim-fire">https://aikido-west.org/pull-push-tap-aim-fire</a></p><p>Boards of Directors and the Duty of Oversight: "Boards of Directors Lovin’ It after McDonald’s? A Fresh Look at Directors’ Duty of Oversight in the New Era of Sanctions & Export Control Corporate Enforcement," NYU PCCE Blog (Jan. 12, 2024), <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2024/01/12/boards-of-directors-lovin-it-after-mcdonalds-a-fresh-look-at-directors-duty-of-oversight-in-the-new-era-of-sanctions-export-control-corporate-enforcement/">https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2024/01/12/boards-of-directors-lovin-it-after-mcdonalds-a-fresh-look-at-directors-duty-of-oversight-in-the-new-era-of-sanctions-export-control-corporate-enforcement/</a></p><p>Brent’s Fraud Four Circle Framework article: "A Light Shines Through the Darkness in Disputes, Investigations, and Trade Compliance: A Fresh Look at the Classic Fraud Triangle with the Fraud Four-Circle Framework℠," NYU PCCE Blog (Jan. 8, 2026), <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2026/01/08/a-light-shines-through-the-darkness-in-disputes-investigations-and-trade-compliance-a-fresh-look-at-the-classic-fraud-triangle-with-the-fraud-diamond-framework-sm/">https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2026/01/08/a-light-shines-through-the-darkness-in-disputes-investigations-and-trade-compliance-a-fresh-look-at-the-classic-fraud-triangle-with-the-fraud-diamond-framework-sm/</a></p>
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- What is Red Flags Rising?
<p>Welcome to Red Flags Rising, where we examine how geopolitics and national security are reshaping corporate enforcement and compliance.</p><p>In an era where “economic security” drives government intervention through increasingly strict and consequential export controls, economic sanctions, inbound and outbound investment restrictions, and tariffs, legacy mindsets and assessments of enforcement risk create liability pitfalls for the uninformed.</p><p>Under the “high probability” standard driving this new enforcement playbook, spotting and effectively mitigating “red flags” has a new urgency.</p><p>We will help you identify and understand the trends, key insights, and practical solutions that are essential to companies, boards of directors, c-suite management, and compliance professionals in these turbulent times.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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