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Crossing the Line: A Fraudster’s Lessons
Frances Ellen always wanted enough money to be able to make choices. Unfortunately, she and her partner chose poorly. They used illegal practices in their investment firm to make lots of cash for their investors. But their lies eventually destroyed their business and sent them to prison. More than 25 years later, Ellen ponders on the lessons she’s learned.
AML in Mortgage and Health-care Frauds: Fighting Money Laundering in Houses and Health
Anti-money laundering is a living and breathing interplay among fraudsters and fraud fighters. Here we explore some of the latest AML issues, pending legislation, and the effects on the anti-fraud community within two perennial targets: the mortgage and health-care industries.
Biegelman and Borgers Bring Expertise to Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Ratley is First Teacher in Dawdy Speaker Series in University of Missouri Program
An Interview with Dr. Timothy Pearson: Fighting Fraud with Research
How can we deter fraud if we don’t understand it? The Institute for Fraud Prevention is supporting research to find the root causes of fraud and offering businesses and government tools for deterrence and prevention.
The Great American Economic Meltdown (Part 2): Ponzi’s Offspring Dupes Investors
Two notable Ponzi cases – the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities scheme and the alleged Stanford Financial Group fraud – show the true underbelly of corruption in the recent economic meltdown.
Goodbye and Good Riddance (Part 2): Financial Companies Bloated Estimates
In the late 1990s and the early part of the last decade, several large financial service companies recognized bogus “gains on sale” from bloated estimates of future collections upon which those gains were based. These were portents of the impending economic meltdown and fraud.