Menendez Victoriously Pressed on to Third Act of Halliburton Fraud Production

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Menendez Victoriously Pressed on to Third Act of Halliburton Fraud Production

Deux ex machina — “God from the machine” — is a plot device that ancient Greek play authors used to save their characters from tight spots and hopefully give them happy endings. Anthony Menendez, CFE, told the Wednesday closing session attendees that was how Halliburton solved a fraudulent accounting problem he’d reported — just drop a benign explanation from the sky, end the production and close the curtain. Finis.

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Barboza’s Early Audacity Prepared Him For His China Corruption Articles

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Barboza’s Early Audacity Prepared Him For His China Corruption Articles

In the 1990s, David Barboza — then a sophomore at Boston University — wanted to emulate authors such as Robert Caro, J. Anthony Lucas and Neil Sheehan because he too desired to become a journalist and historian. “So I had this crazy idea … that I would call some of the great figures in history,” Barboza told attendees at the Tuesday working lunch, to interview them for his student papers.

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A Rough Reality: Fraud Victims and the Road to Renewal

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A Rough Reality: Fraud Victims and the Road to Renewal

Shock, anger, depression and bargaining are all victim’s reactions to fraud. When someone falls victim to fraud, there are issues that hinder healing — lack of sleep, overworking to earn money back, compulsive behavior and avoiding emotions. “Much is made of the fraudster,” said Andy Wilson, CFE, CCEP, VP Fraud & Compliance, Sedgwick, Inc. “But [the victims] are the real faces of fraud.”

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What’s in a Name? How to Reconcile Linguistic Differences in Identity Matching

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What’s in a Name? How to Reconcile Linguistic Differences in Identity Matching

For most people, your name is one of the purest, and easiest, summations of your identity. For those in the business of screening identity data against compliance intelligence information, a name may be the best tool you have to track and prosecute fraudsters around the globe. However, things begin to get complex when you consider the sheer multitude of countries and organizations developing sanction lists using their language’s translations of names.

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