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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Individuals Causing the 2008 Housing Crisis Receive No More Than a Slap on the Wrist

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Following the 2008 housing crisis, several of the banks involved paid large settlement fines. JPMorgan Chase was one of those banks. The Ju...

Research Study Suggests That the Culture in the Banking Industry Leads to Dishonesty

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Financial Times recently printed an article about a study done by researchers at the University of Zurich which suggested that bankers h...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Would You Break the Law for $1 Million?

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A survey was recently conducted in Korea where participants were asked if they would break the law in order to gain the equivalent of $95...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Latest in Detecting Deception

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I spend about two and a half weeks in my Fraud Examination class studying how we can detect when someone is being deceptive. I think it'...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Lie Detector Could Help Stop Doping in Sports

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words—and researchers have found a video can be worth even more. A recent article talks about rese...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Competitive Sports Leads to Academic Fraud at UNC

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A report was recently released with findings of an  investigation  on academic fraud at the University of North Carolina. The report stat...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Insider Trading: Employing Mob-like Tactics to Realize Tremendous Profits

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An article from earlier this year on fortune.com said that “more than half of the best-known white-collar inmates… are in prison beca...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Uncovering Pharmaceutical Fraud

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In a previous post , I mentioned a research paper that was published in The Lancet that made claims that a certain vaccine caused autism...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Doping in Sports and Financial Statement Fraud

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I just read an interesting article titled: " Instead of punishing dirty cyclists, should we reward the clean ?" The idea is to ...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Connections Between the Big Banks and Holder's Justice Department: No Wonder There Aren't Criminal Cases

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Eric Holder (from The Guardian) A story in The Guardian  discusses connections that Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer have with a law firm, C...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

How the Atlanta Teaching Scandal was Uncovered

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A recent article in Business Insider shed some light on how a teaching scandal in Atlanta was uncovered. The scandal involved teachers w...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Don’t Get Scammed: Tips on Avoiding IRS Scam

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I recently saw an email from someone who received a phone call from a woman claiming to be from the IRS. The woman claimed that she was cal...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Should Legal Penalties for Research Misconduct be Similar to Those for Fraud?

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Research misconduct (when research is falsified or plagiarized) has historically been dealt with internally, but Richard Smith thinks tha...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Reporting Fraud: An Uphill Battle, Especially in China

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We often hope to see the people committing fraud receiving punishment. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. A recent New York ...
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