Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
"The session I'm looking forward to is the one on the criminal. It's interesting understanding why they did what they did, the thought process they went through and why they thought they might be able to get away with it. And even if they got caught, why wasn't the consequence enough to keep them from engaging in the act in the first place?" — Stacy Brown-Johnson, CFE, Director, Kikivarakis & Co., Nassau, Bahamas
Read MoreOn Dec. 19, 2012, activist investor William Ackman publicly confirmed that he was “betting” against the stock of Herbalife because “the company operates like a pyramid scheme.” Ackman claimed in a 334-slide, three-hour presentation, “Herbalife is a pyramid scheme because, among other reasons, distributors earn more than 10 times as much from recruitment as they do by selling the company’s overpriced products to bona fide retail customers.”
Read MoreFraud examiners are frequently asked to conduct interviews, pilfer through written and online data, and sometimes give expert testimony. They are rarely asked to give a short media performance. Although a performance is exactly what anti-fraud professionals need to do when working with the media, according to Katherine McLane, founding partner of The Mach 1 Group in Austin, Texas. “A good interview is never a conversation; it is a performance,” McLane said. “It takes time and skill and training to master the art.”
Read More“Our message to those who attempt to defraud Social Security is plain: We will find you, we will prosecute you, we will seek the maximum punishment under the law, and we will fight to restore the money you have stolen from the American people,” says the acting commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), Carolyn W. Colvin, during the Tuesday morning General Session.
Read MoreAssistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, Leslie R. Caldwell, said in her opening keynote that corruption is a fight in which we have critical international allies.
Read MoreThe 26th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference opened in impressive style on June 15 in Baltimore with the presentation of the colors, a bagpipe procession, a new welcome video and the spirit of ACFE founder and Chairman, Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA.
Read MoreACFE President and CEO James D. Ratley, CFE, challenges attendees to reach higher in their professional careers and remember that "there is always room at the top."
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