Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
What 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 MoreJames D. Ratley, CFE, ACFE President and CEO, delivers a message regarding the ACFE's new Corporate Alliance program and the initiatives to support members globally.
Read MorePreet Bharara, the U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, received the ACFE’s prestigious Donald R. Cressey Award for a lifetime of achievement in the detection and deterrence of fraud. He also challenged attendees to step back from merely concentrating on the law of fraud and help develop a culture of integrity that will deter it.
Read MoreOne of the nation’s top business investigative correspondents, Allan Dodds Frank, accepted the ACFE's Guardian Award for fraud reporting and spoke on the similar attributes and goals of fraud reporters and fraud fighters.
Read MoreACFE founder and Chairman, Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, outlined the three emerging threats facing the fraud industry: investment schemes, financial statements manipulations from insiders and cyber crime.
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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