• Quick Tip: Identifying Fraud Risks in a Fraud Investigation

    Recently I recorded this QuckTip for the Consultants Training Institute, the educational arm of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA). I was asked to give a few pointers on how fraud investigators can begin investigations when they […]

  • Marc Randazza, First Amendment Lawyer

    Marc J. Randazza is a truly amazing First Amendment Attorney. His firm, Randazza Legal Group is based in Las Vegas, but they handle cases across the country. It is impossible to appreciate how brilliant Marc is unless you have actually […]

  • Auditor Rotation Won’t Make Audits Better

    Last week, CFO Magazine published an article online about CFOs opposing the potential proposal by the  Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) requiring companies to switch auditors every 5 to 10 years.  More than 625 comment letters, many from CFOs, […]

  • Finding Bank Accounts and Financial Records

    I get asked all the time whether I can find hidden bank accounts around the world.  The answer is mostly no. Brian Willingham of Diligentia Group wrote a helpful article about this last year, entitled “Can a Private Investigator Get […]

  • Common Sense in Internal Investigations

    Last week Mike Volkov had a great post on his blog about using common sense in your internal investigations. Mike is an FCPA expert, and the guy you want to go to if your company is the target of a […]

  • Article at CFO.com: Taking on Fraud Probes Without Interfering

     How CFOs can assist independent investigators and not mess up the integrity of the results. By Tracy Coenen, Contributing Editor at CFO.com With the government’s increased focus on ferreting out corporate fraud, companies face a higher risk of gigantic defense […]

  • Taking on Fraud Probes Without Interfering

  • Expert Witness: Written Report Under Rule 26

    Last year, an important decision was rendered on an appeal involving six expert witnesses. In the case of Walter International Products, Inc. et al v. Walter Mercado Salinas et al, one of the issues on appeal was the district court […]

  • Airport Naked Body Scanners Are a Fraud

    I have long believed that the nonsense the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) makes us go through at the airport does not actually makes us safer. It makes people feel safer, but it doesn’t actually make us safer. And here is […]

  • Steal and Conceal: MATC Procurement Director Fraud

    Today the Journal Sentinel ran a story about the fraud perpetrated on Milwaukee Area Technical College (and taxpayers) by Kristin Semits, the procurement director. Seimits is accused of stealing more than $259,000j over a 7 year period using her P-card […]