• Kwame Kilpatrick: Lifestyle Analysis in Criminal Cases

    In 2008, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged in state court with 8 felonies related to perjury, misconduct in office, and obstruction of justice. In On September 2008,he pleaded guilty to two felonies for obstruction of justice and was sentenced […]

  • Do Former Law Enforcement Officers Make Better Forensic Accountants?

    Today Brian Willingham of the Diligentia Group has inspired me with his article Do Former Law Enforcement Officers Make Better Private Investigators? While Brian agrees that experience in law enforcement can be helpful to a private investigator, it does not […]

  • MF Global One Year Later: Where’s the Money?

    One year after MF Global “misplaced” $1.6 billion in customer funds, those funds still haven’t been recovered for investors. The money has allegedly been found, but that still doesn’t help customers who would like to get their misappropriated funds back. […]

  • The Psychology of White Collar Criminals

    Toby Groves is a fraudster turned researcher, having served time for mortgage fraud in income tax fraud committed while running Groves Funding Corporation. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison, and it was in prison that he began […]

  • The Justice Department’s Slippery Slope: Enforcement Versus Regulation

    Guest post by Michael Volkov, Esq. The Department of Justice is proud of its record on FCPA enforcement. They take credit whenever and wherever they can. They trumpet every settlement. They proudly proclaim that over half of last year’s criminal […]

  • Fraudulent Accounting Practices: Easy to Commit, Hard to Find

    We hear almost daily reports of companies engaging in accounting shenanigans to boost their apparent performance. As of late, companies like Diamond Foods (DMND), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) and Avon Products Inc. (AVP) are grabbing headlines for their alleged […]

  • Article at CFO.com: Investigating a Compliance Failure

    How to determine the right mix of expertise for a fraud investigation. By Tracy Coenen, Contributor to CFO.com It’s every CFO’s worst nightmare: despite your best efforts, your company’s compliance program has failed. There are credible reports of fraud and […]

  • Investigating a Compliance Failure

    How to determine the right mix of expertise for a fraud investigation. Tracy L. Coenen – CFO Magazine It’s every CFO’s worst nightmare: despite your best efforts, your company’s compliance program has failed. There are credible reports of fraud and […]

  • When Employees Steal, the SEC May Punish the Company and the CEO

    Guest Post by Keith Paul Bishop Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Keith Bishop’s blog, California Corporate & Securities Law on November 23, 2011. It offers us a different view from that of Tracy Coenen regarding the SEC’s […]

  • IFRS and Fraud: More Challenges, More Risks

    Written by Tracy Coenen, CPA, CFF AICPA Corporate Finance Insider Newsletter Reasonable accountants can disagree about whether a move to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will improve financial reporting. One key concern is that principles-based financial statements are much more […]