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“As a girl who grew up in India and came to the U.S. — I went to some of the top schools, worked for some of the best corporations, caught all the breaks that I wanted. … But I am responsible [for my fraud] and no one else,” Roomy Khan said. “The culpability is completely mine. I should have known better. Looking forward, I hope I can now be part of the solution.”
Read MoreIn Monday's lunch General Session on June 13, Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss praised the work of fraud examiners like Harry Markopolos and gave attendees an inside look into his portrayal of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff.
Read MoreDeux 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.
Read MoreDavid Barboza, investigative journalist for The New York Times, shared his story of exposing corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government in Tuesday's lunch General Session.
Read MoreIn 2002, an investigation into WorldCom revealed that CEO Bernie Ebbers “created and the [then] board permitted, a corporate environment in which pressure to meet the numbers was high, the departments that served as controls were weak, and the word of senior management was final and not to be challenged.”
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreShock, 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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