A forensic accountant may be needed in a case alleging securities fraud. In the video below, Tracy discusses some of the particular issues that the accountant may evaluate and how to find the right expert for your case.

An attorney hired to handle a $3.7 million estate ended up stealing more than $1.5 million from it, spending some of the money on personal expenses and losing the rest through online day trading. By the time Duncan Connelly was […]

The thing that caught my eye about this story was the description of the financial statements as “sanitized.” I know what that means, and I bet the investors in Pacific Private Money wish they had heard about sanitized financial statements […]

Brett H. LaChappelle of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, has been busy telling the internet about himself. One of his recently published biographies describes himself as a special needs aide working with people with autism and intellectual disabilities. It discusses his education, […]

Venture capital investors gave Shiloh Luckey (fka Shiloh Johnson) more than $13 million for her tax compliance startup, ComplYant. Federal prosecutors now say she lied about the company’s revenue, customers, subscriptions and cash balances. She allegedly used some of the […]

Andrew Left made a career out of telling investors which stocks he thought were winners and losers, and people listened. That turned out to be very profitable for Left. A federal jury has now decided that some of those profits […]

Tracy Coenen gives a brief overview of some of the most common financial statement fraud schemes.

When a whistleblower goes to a government agency to report allegations of fraud and corruption within a company, no one knows whether the government will act. The more detailed and credible the allegations, the more likely the government will ask […]

Money laundering is fun to talk about. It just sounds cool to begin with. And the whole process is fascinating to me. It is important to know that money laundering is not a fraud scheme. It is a crime that […]

There may be nothing more disheartening in the world of fraud investigation than a church employee caught embezzling. Unfortunately, there are fairly regular news reports of financial fraud at churches. Fraud hits churches hard. Many churches operate on shoestring budgets […]