• “Kid Nation” controversy

    I openly admit to being a reality television fan. My favorites are Survivor and Amazing Race, but just about any reality show will do. So when I saw commercials for this new show called “Kid Nation,” I was intrigued. 40 […]

  • The “I Forgot I Already Voted Today” Defense Fails

    A Milwaukee county man was convicted yesterday of voting twice in a November’s election. Michael Zore voted twice within 6 hours, once in Wauwatosa (where he lives) and once in West Allis (where he used a fake address). Zore told […]

  • Jessica McBride Calls Out Eugene Kane for Ignoring the Truth

    On Sunday, Jessica McBride had a great post on Eugene Kane, and his failure to accept the truth when it’s coming the sources. Eugene Kane is a liberal columnist for the Journal Sentinel, who is always moaning about the injustice […]

  • Mannatech CEO Quits to Devote More Time to Mannatech

    Okay, I admit it. That headline comes straight from Zac Bissonette at Bloggingstocks. I couldn’t help it though. It’s just so…. so…. right. In July, the Texas Attorney General filed suit against Mannatech to stop the company from using illegal […]

  • Earnings management at Overstock.com?

    Sam Antar at White Collar Fraud Blog has posted the second part of his analysis of Overstock.com’s second quarter numbers, and it ain’t pretty! Looks like Byrne and company are doing even more fancy math! Yoo-hoo… SEC… are you listening? […]

  • Usana’s retail sales

    One of the criticisms leveled against Usana Health Sciences in Fraud Discovery Institute’s original report on the company is the lack of retail sales. Usana acknowledges the importance of retail sales in its 2005 10-k, on page 16 (bold added […]

  • Multi-level marketing companies and sales to retail customers

    One of the hallmarks of a product-based pyramid scheme is the absence of sales to retail customers. Examine a multi-level marketing company like Usana or Mary Kay, and you will see that for the most part, their distributors do not […]

  • Book Publishing: Finalizing the Contract, Writing the Book, and Meeting Deadlines

    I am wrapping up writing my manuscript entitled Essentials of Corporate Fraud, to be published by John Wiley & Sons. I’ve been discussing my experience with finding a publisher and getting a book deal here. It’s been an interesting process, […]

  • United States now offers patents on business scams

    An astute reader found this at the bottom of a Quixtar (Amway) website: “This site is protected by U.S. Patent 6,980,962” Protected by a patent? A business scam like Amway, Quixtar, whatever it’s called this week? Surely the United States […]

  • Did you see Sequence Inc. in the Wall Street Journal today?

    The Wall Street Journal had a special section today on entrepreneurs, and this blog was mentioned in an article entitled Blog It and They May Come. We got in both the print edition and online edition, and got linked too. […]