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	<title>Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog &#187; Fraud News</title>
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		<title>Bethenny Frankel&#8217;s $120 Million Skinnygirl Lie That Wasn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/bethenny-frankels-120-million-skinnygirl-lie-that-wasnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/bethenny-frankels-120-million-skinnygirl-lie-that-wasnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fraud News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Shuter, known as &#8220;Naughty But Nice Rob,&#8221; has been busy over at Huffington Post, trashing Bethenny Frankel for her sale of the Skinnygirl cocktail line to Fortune Brands earlier this year. In an October 11 story, Bethenny Frankel&#8217;s Skinnygirl Business Was Not Sold For $120 Million, Rob claims that the drink line was actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSA Agent Thedala McGee Rapes Passenger, Then Demands Money</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/09/tsa-agent-thedala-mcgee-rapes-passenger-then-demands-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/09/tsa-agent-thedala-mcgee-rapes-passenger-then-demands-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=7741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the United States goes back to normal, following our remembrance of September 11, 2001, one of the most offensive bits of &#8220;normal&#8221; continues at airports. We, the citizens of the United States, allow the Transportation Security Administration to shame, humiliate, and violate us every single day. (See a photo of the kind of thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Public School Teachers Underpaid?</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/08/are-public-school-teachers-underpaid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/08/are-public-school-teachers-underpaid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fraud News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milwaukee public schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mps budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher compensation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have addressed the issue of teacher compensation multiple times in the context of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and the constant budget problems the district claims to have. The administrators claim that they need more money, yet time and again it is demonstrated that the district has been getting more money on a per-student basis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Rule Adopted by SEC Discourages Internal Reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/dodd-frank-whistleblower-rule-adopted-by-sec-discourages-internal-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/dodd-frank-whistleblower-rule-adopted-by-sec-discourages-internal-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=6228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, enacted on July 21, 2010, established a whistleblower incentive program requiring the Securities and Exchange commission to provide monetary awards to whistleblowers who come forward with information about the violation of federal securities laws, including violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The Act also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Commentary on Lawyers and the Exercise of Free Speech as it Relates to the Rakofsky Fiasco</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/brilliant-commentary-on-lawyers-and-the-exercise-of-free-speech-as-it-relates-to-the-rakofsky-fiasco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/brilliant-commentary-on-lawyers-and-the-exercise-of-free-speech-as-it-relates-to-the-rakofsky-fiasco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Rakofsky is still pursuing his lawsuit against the Internet. As expected, things are not going well for him in this matter. But he wants to continue nonetheless. His lawyer is withdrawing from the case. Rakofsky is not licensed to practice law in New York, where he filed his lawsuit. So while he can represent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Spending Per Child: Milwaukee Public Schools Versus Other Public Schools and Private Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/school-spending-per-child-milwaukee-public-schools-versus-other-public-schools-and-private-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/school-spending-per-child-milwaukee-public-schools-versus-other-public-schools-and-private-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written plenty about Milwaukee Public Schools and their failure to educate children, despite their out-of-control spending. Teachers and administrators always claim that more money is the answer to all their problems. And the money is for the children!!! This is obviously not true: When the poor quality of U.S. education is pointed out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Judge Really Said About Joseph Rakofsky and His Incompetence</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/what-the-judge-really-said-about-joseph-rakofsky-and-his-incompetence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/06/what-the-judge-really-said-about-joseph-rakofsky-and-his-incompetence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[incompetent lawyer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=6174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The internets are all abuzz with the story of Joseph Rakofsky, young attorney with almost no experience, prone to inflating his credentials on his (now removed) web page, who is suing a large portion of the internets in what has been dubbed Rakofsky v Internet. It all started when the Washington Post reported that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rakofsky Suing the Internet: Career Suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/rakofsky-suing-the-internet-career-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/05/rakofsky-suing-the-internet-career-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 04:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=6147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is any quicker way to bring negative attention to negative news, I don&#8217;t know of it. Joseph Rakofsky seems to have a lock on ruining his own career by &#8220;suing the internet.&#8221; It all started with Rakofsky, a new-ish lawyer who was representing Dontrell Deaner in a murder case in Washington, D.C.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eliminating Opportunities for Fraud in Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/04/eliminating-opportunities-for-fraud-in-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/04/eliminating-opportunities-for-fraud-in-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fraud News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-fraud policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud schemes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=6044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perpetrators of fraud have plenty of schemes to choose from when cooking up their crimes. The fraud schemes range from petty theft by lower-level employees, all the way up to management cooking up stellar financial statements to dupe investors and lenders. Fraud prevention policies and procedures sometimes have a tendency to focus on the smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of &#8220;Reduced Budgets&#8221; for Wisconsin Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/02/the-myth-of-reduced-budgets-for-wisconsin-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/02/the-myth-of-reduced-budgets-for-wisconsin-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Coenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fraud News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milwaukee public schools budget]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/?p=5660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, public workers&#8217; unions in Wisconsin are up in arms because Governor Scott Walker has issued a budget which seeks to strip the unions of many of their bargaining rights. He wants to make the union members pay their fair share for their pensions and health care costs, and the unions aren&#8217;t having it! [...]]]></description>
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