Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our briefing on compliance, enforcement and government affairs. It’s been a week since the “blue wave” and companies are already preparing for a flood of congressional investigations by U.S. House Democrats. Plus: A company learns the hard way about what happens when you fail to live up to the terms of a Federal Trade Commission settlement, and Tesla loses a securities lawyer.

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