• Barry Minkow Sentenced to Five Years’ Imprisonment on Stock Manipulation Conspiracy

    United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida July 21, 2011 Press Release Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field […]

  • Groupon: Pay No Attention to the Bottom Line

    In the United States, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are required to be used by public companies so that users of the financial statements can properly interpret results. It makes sense to have a set of rules common to all […]

  • Creating a Culture of Compliance

    “Tone at the top” is an overused phrase, but if companies want to mitigate fraud senior leaders need to speak up forcefully. Kimberly Blanton – CFO Magazine Cell-phone markets in Central America and Southeast Asia were booming early in the […]

  • False Claims and Broken Promises in Multi-Level Marketing

    Robert FitzPatrick, an internationally recognized authority on multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes and a court certified expert witness on MLMs and pyramids, details the lies told in MLM in this article, A Disguised Pyramid Scheme: The Non-Retail “Direct Selling” Company: […]

  • The Cost to “Create” Jobs Via the “Stimulus”

    Last week, the Council of Economic Advisers of the Executive Office of the President released its quarterly report on The Economic Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The numbers are stunning, to say the least. Our […]