Keynote Speaker: Preet Bharara

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Keynote Speaker: Preet Bharara

“The lesson in history in general and in corporate scandals specifically is that you can’t simply legislate a culture of integrity,” said Preet Bharara, the U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, during the Monday working lunch. “You cannot will it into existence by simply wishing for it, nor can you instill it in the workplace where even the best drafted compliance policy or the most thoughtful statutory regime or the best fraud examiners around.”

 

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Keynote Speaker: Allan Dodds Frank

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Keynote Speaker: Allan Dodds Frank

 “While … [ACFE] members may not exactly be soul brothers and sisters of investigative reporters, we are at least first and second cousins,” said Allan Dodds Frank, one of the nation’s top business investigative correspondents, during the opening Monday session. “Over the years, I have been lucky enough to meet and work with many fraud investigators, and I can safely say we share some attributes, perhaps most notably that making money is far from our only motivation.”

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Developing an Ethics Hotline in Three Critical Stages

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Developing an Ethics Hotline in Three Critical Stages

The most common detection method for fraud is a tip, according to the ACFE’s 2012 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud & Abuse. Other methods don't even come close – more cases are detected through tips than the next four detection methods combined, which included management review and internal audit.

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