Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
“I spent my entire life in the company of criminals,” said Chris Mathers, the Tuesday morning General Session speaker. “Two things I learned: People do not steal your money to save it. And … people typically do not resort to criminality late in life. It’s not like taking up golf. It’s something you do from the very beginning.
Read MoreWhat does a fraudster look like? People often ask Martin Biegelman, CFE, CCEP, that very question. His answer? “The faces of fraud are everywhere.” David Greenburg was a famous police detective, a hero in the New York Police Department in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Remember the TV show “Starsky and Hutch”? It was based on Greenburg and his partner. Turns out he was conducting insurance fraud and later served four years in jail.
Read MoreLehman Brothers: a name synonymous with bankruptcy and the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression. Founded in 1850 as a small cotton trading business by a German immigrant and his two brothers, Lehman grew into one of the largest investment banks on Wall Street. Its reputation, however, far exceeded what hid behind a dark veil of altered quarterly and annual filings. As Bruce Dubinsky, CFE, CPA, CVA, Managing Director of Duff and Phelps, LLC, and ACFE Regent, conveyed today, “It’s not about what you can actually see on the page; it’s about what’s not there.”
Read More“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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“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.”
Read MoreIt’s not all glitz and glamour in fabulous Las Vegas. A seedy underbelly of crime lurks in the shadows, away from the neon. Ralph Villanueva, CFE, CIA, IT Security and Compliance Analyst for The LVH - Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Resort, invited attendees to explore that underbelly with him.
Read MoreThe 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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