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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Expert Witnesses in the Armstrong Case: Are their Opinions Valid?

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It’s been over three years since Lance Armstrong admitted to doping throughout his career, but the lawsuit between the United States Post...
Monday, April 18, 2016

New Detection Method Could Have Caught Lance Armstrong

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There are several articles on Fraudbytes discussing doping in professional sports , but is there a way to stop doping? A recent article on...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Financial Crime Registry: Will it Deter Fraud and Improve Restitutions?

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Every state in the United States has a sex offender registry that is publicly available for everyone to see in order to identify people who...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

How to Avoid Being Asked to Commit Fraud

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A recent article in The Economist discusses how to avoid being asked to commit fraud. It can be very uncomfortable if your manager ask...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Doping and Match Fixing: Has Tennis Crossed the Line?

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News of professional tennis player Maria Sharapova failing a drug test at the Australian Open has spread rapidly, especially since ten...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Advances in Technology for Auditing Firms: KPMG to Announce Deal with IBM Watson

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A recent article in The Wall Street Journal discussed the technological improvements among auditing firms (KPMG in particular). KPMG i...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Ponzi Scheme in China: $7.6 Billion Lost

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A recent article in The Economist elaborates on a massive Ponzi scheme that recently collapsed in China and caused 900,000 investors to...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program Makes its Annual Report to Congress

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The Whistleblower Program was instituted in August of 2011 with the purpose of incentivizing people with inside, original information about...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Martin Shkreli: The Downward Spiral of Fraud and Greed

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Martin Shkreli, former CEO of a pharmaceutical company is known for buying up old drugs and immediately raising the price to consumers by...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Swisher Executives Charged with Fraud

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In 2012, Swisher, a janitorial and cleaning-supply services company, was charged with allegations of financial wrongdoings.  Now, three y...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Volkswagen Cheats the Emissions Test and Gets Caught Big Time

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The Volkswagen scandal has been all over the news the past several days ( TIME , CNN , Economist ). In summary, Volkswagen committed a ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Computer Chip Credit Cards – What it Means for Credit Card Security

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Have you ever received a call from Visa, American Express, or another credit card company telling you that your credit card information wa...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

The Hospital Room Incident: Did Lance Armstrong Pay Off Doctors to Remain Silent?

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While it has been several months since we posted about the Lance Armstrong investigation (see this link for previous posts), the case a...
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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Detecting Fraud in Academic Research

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The scientific community is often considered to be less filled with fraud than other disciplines. Typically when we think of fraud, we thin...
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