Oh the cruel, cruel internets!
Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 21, 2009 · 4 Comments
The world of mommy blogging is all aflutter. Bloggers have been criticized and those responsible for dishing out the criticism must be shamed or sued or both!!!
For those of you who aren’t hip to what mommy blogging is… it’s blogging done by moms. Lots of them are just using blogging as a creative outlet or [...]
I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates Intuit, Quicken, and Quickbooks
Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 15, 2009 · 7 Comments
A few months ago, I posted a rant here about my hate for everything Quickbooks and Intuit. The problem is, however, that a lot of people use it (so that means I have to use it in many of my investigations) and there aren’t many good alternatives.
Intuit immediately got their PR people on my situation, [...]
September 11 Tribute: Karen Lynn Seymour Dietrich
Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 10, 2009 · 2 Comments
Eight years later, and the emotion of September 11 doesn’t go away. I remember how I felt that day. How friends and I leaned on each other as we tried to understand the terrible act that was carried out.
Reports of financial crimes growing
Posted by Tracy Coenen on July 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m not a believer that a bad economy means more fraud is occurring. Those who say this is happening simply have no basis for that opinion. Because so much financial fraud goes undetected, it is impossible to determine if it’s growing or not. (But saying fraud goes up in a bad economy makes good sound [...]
Privacy over regulation
Posted by Tracy Coenen on July 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Today I was in a class on overseas banking and reporting requirements for individuals and businesses. I wanted to learn about the latest regulations and their enforcement. We discussed the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, through which taxpayers can “tell on themselves” to the IRS regarding their previously secret foreign bank accounts. The will not be [...]
Interesting stories
Posted by Tracy Coenen on July 6, 2009 · 2 Comments
My faithful readers have likely noticed my conspicuous absence over the last month or more. The simple truth is that I have been swamped with work, and for that I am thankful. Not everyone in my industry is doing so well. Fraud investigation and contract litigation are “extras” that not every company can afford these [...]
Update on Quickbooks Sucks
Posted by Tracy Coenen on May 14, 2009 · 13 Comments
A few weeks ago, I posted my opinion on Intuit and QuickBooks on this blog. Essentially the company created a program to get people to sign up for a monthly technical support plan costing $39, and then when that plan was canceled, still billed for the service.
I signed up for this plan knowing I’d never [...]
Milwaukee Public Schools teachers admit they suck?
Posted by Tracy Coenen on May 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The idea being proposed is simple: Pay Milwaukee Public Schools teachers more to teach a longer school day so children can learn more.
The response from the teachers union: “We’ve taken a consistent view that doing the same thing longer is going to produce the same results.”
Translation: We’re not teaching children now, and having a longer [...]
More Milwaukee Public Schools budget nonsense
Posted by Tracy Coenen on April 27, 2009 · 1 Comment
The clowns running Milwaukee Public Schools never fail to provide ample fodder for articles at the Fraud Files. I have written several articles here on how taxpayers are being cheated out of their hard earned money. We’ve made it too easy for MPS to do this to us.
We’ve been led to believe “it’s for the [...]
There is no need for government-run health care
Posted by Tracy Coenen on April 16, 2009 · 1 Comment
More words of wisdom from DownsizeDC.org:
Sadly, the politicians now want to create a new dragnet program that will once again fail as a safety net. And they’re once again using fraudulent claims to con us. The politicians tell us that more than 45 million Americans lack health insurance. But they don’t tell us what their [...]
