An interesting story popped up last week about charges the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought against Ernst & Young (EY) and current and former partners. The current partner is James Herring, and the former partners are James Young and […]
A couple of weeks ago, singer Kelly Clarkson was ordered to pay her soon-to-be ex-husband Brandon Blackstock $150,000 per month of spousal support (alimony) and $45,601 in child support. Some people are criticizing this award and referring to it as […]
Yesterday I appeared on Mark Goldman’s “Where Accountants Go” podcast. Mark owns MGR Accounting Recruiters, a company that matches employers with job seekers in the accounting and finance arena. We spent 30 minutes talking about my work as a forensic […]
Last week I joined Leah Wietholter of Workman Forensics in Tulsa, OK on her podcast The Investigation Game. We talked about one of the largest consumer frauds: multi-level marketing (MLM). You may know MLM by other names such as: direct […]
A continuously updated list of episodes can be found here: https://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles-podcast/ Every time I think I should start a podcast called The FraudFiles Podcast, I end up appearing as a guest on someone else’s show. It’s so much easier to […]
Last week I wrote about the billionaire divorce I worked on, as the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce story made headlines. These cases are once-in-a-lifetime cases, although last year I had an opportunity to work on one again. But after […]
The divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates has everyone talking about what it’s like to be a billionaire getting a divorce. Safe to say, it’s complicated. This article in Forbes, For Richer and Richest:Inside The Billion-Dollar Marriages, Open Relationships And […]
In 2008, I started writing here about Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) because the district was presenting the numbers in a dishonest way, complaining that they were underfunded. I was appalled that a school district could waste $1 billion a year […]
Hear the story of my dream of being a prison warden… that got derailed when I discovered financial investigations. And now I spend my days finding money as a forensic accountant! Listen to me on The 1958 Lawyer Podcast with […]
Last year the American Bar Association published the second edition of my book “Lifestyle Analysis in Divorce Cases: Investigating Spending and Finding Hidden Income and Assets.” Here’s the video that was done for the first edition. It’s a great summary […]
