{"id":16601,"date":"2011-03-30T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2015-06-27T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T17:10:17","slug":"milwaukee-accountant-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/milwaukee-accountant-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Accountant Fights Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27189%27%20height%3D%2775%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20189%2075%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27189%27%20height%3D%2775%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/images\/logos\/journalsentinel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"75\" \/>Cary Spivak &#8211; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Forensic accountant <strong>Tracy Coenen<\/strong> has been dismissed from a $270 million defamation lawsuit filed against her, convicted fraudster Barry Minkow and others.<\/p>\n<p>Coenen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/2011\/03\/29\/medifast-take-shape-for-life-lawsuit-total-vindication-for-tracy-coenen\/\" target=\"_blank\">hails her victory on<\/a> her Fraud Files blog.<\/p>\n<p>Minkow, you may recall, is the one-time entrepreneurial whiz turned felon after his ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company collapsed under the weight of a Ponzi scheme he engineered. After his release from prison, Minkow became a minister and self-proclaimed fraudbuster. That is until <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704438104576219662795056534.html\" target=\"_blank\">he was charged <\/a>last week with conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Coenen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/89852612.html\">has done occasional work for Minkow,<\/a> though she is not involved in the matter that led to Minkow latest troubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cary Spivak &#8211; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Forensic accountant Tracy Coenen has been dismissed from a $270 million defamation lawsuit filed against her, convicted fraudster Barry Minkow and others. Coenen hails her victory on her Fraud Files blog. Minkow, you may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[810,827],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-investigations","category-public-companies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-4jL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}