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"Sixteen years of clean audits at FIFA shows that corruption is mostly invisible," said Paul O'Sullivan, CFE, senior consultant at Paul O’Sullivan & Associates. "These people don't need a receipt for their crimes." Like the FIFA scandal, corruption isn't always loud and it isn't always in your face. Corruption is calculated. "Corruption is a proverbial iceberg — it's not always visible," said O'Sullivan.
Read MoreHostile or rude interviewees, passive aggressive tactics, unsavory characters. These are things a fraud examiner or auditor could face when conducting an investigation. Ed Stolle, CFE, CPA, CGFM, CFCI, Manager and Advisor at Federal Housing Finance Agency, knows these characters well and shared his own experiences during his session, "What to Do When Your Fraud Examination Turns Hostile."
Read More“We don’t want to be the world’s global corruption police,” said Leslie R. Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Monday opening General Session. “We can’t and we don’t want to be. … We are vigorously investigating international corruption, vigorously prosecuting organized crime … and we’re increasing our commitment everyday to international cooperation in our struggle to safeguard markets, our networks, our privacy and our citizens.”
Read MoreInvestigators and auditors bring their own sets of tools to an investigation. In the investigator’s tool kit are interviewing skills, knowledge of the law, collecting and preserving evidence know-how, and honesty and ethics. Auditors bring different assets: integrity, independence, an attention to detail, internal controls experience and expertise in collecting hard copy evidence.
Read More"When I was stationed as a law enforcement attaché in Chile, we learned there were possible IEDs in a certain area," said Liseli Pennings, Special Agent of the U.S. Department of Treasury. "We immediately let the U.S. Consulate know to set a travel alert for U.S. citizens traveling to the area — and just the public in general — that it wasn't safe to travel to the affected area."
Read More"Fraud used to be such a male-dominated profession, so it's nice to know there's a specialized course like the women's panel where I can hear from other women in the profession, the obstacles they overcame and to network with likeminded people in my field." — Karla Moran, CFE, Fraud Investigator
Read MoreWhat is the best way to train your employees on ethics? Well, it depends. According to Bethmara Kessler, CFE, CISA, Chief Audit Executive at the Campbell Soup Company, a company’s ethics program depends entirely on the company. Kessler led a Pre-Conference Session today at the ACFE Global Fraud Conference in Baltimore about how companies can build effective ethics programs.
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