{"id":37,"date":"2006-01-04T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-02-04T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T19:15:33","slug":"lessons-learned-from-bielnski-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/lessons-learned-from-bielnski-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned from Bielnski Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wislawjournal.com\">Wisconsin Law Journal<\/a> published an article I wrote about the fraud at Milwaukee-area home builder Bielinski Brothers Inc. The company&#8217;s CEO, Robert Brownell, was the mastermind of a fraud that cost the company an estimated $12 million. There were several players charged with federal crimes, along with Brownell, and most have pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>While I did not investigate the case and I did not have any firsthand involvement with anyone from the company, I commented on some of the things that went wrong and what companies can learn from that. There are common mistakes made in businesses, and I highlighted some of them in the article.<\/p>\n<p>Read it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wislawjournal.com\/archive\/2005\/1228\/coenen-122805.html\">A Thief Among Us: Lessons From Bielinski Brothers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Wisconsin Law Journal published an article I wrote about the fraud at Milwaukee-area home builder Bielinski Brothers Inc. The company&#8217;s CEO, Robert Brownell, was the mastermind of a fraud that cost the company an estimated $12 million. [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}