GDPR: A New Ethical Framework for Fraud Examiners

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GDPR: A New Ethical Framework for Fraud Examiners

Most likely, you’ve heard the phrase “leaving a carbon footprint.” We know that traveling, consuming food and even breathing are all activities that release trace amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. The same idea is applicable to a person’s digital footprint. Your digital footprint is the virtual impression of activities you are involved in. Liking your friend’s post on Facebook, purchasing a pair of shoes online, tweeting about how much you loved this year’s #fraudconf — all of these activities are tracked and logged, and combined they are your digital footprint. This is what the GDPR is concerned with: protecting that data.

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Sentinel Award Recipient Kathe Swanson Finally Receives Closure

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Sentinel Award Recipient Kathe Swanson Finally Receives Closure

Closure. That’s all Kathe Swanson was looking for.

She was the city clerk of Dixon, Illinois, when in October 2011 she discovered some fishy bank statements that implicated longtime comptroller, Rita Crundwell, for embezzling from Dixon. The city fired Crundwell in April 2012. That didn’t give Swanson closure. After an FBI investigation, Crundwell was indicted for stealing $53.7 million from city coffers over two decades. No closure. Crundwell was convicted in February 2013 and sentenced to 19 years and seven months in federal prison. Still no closure.

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Crisis in the Organization? Rebuild Your Culture with Transparency

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Crisis in the Organization? Rebuild Your Culture with Transparency

You know that catastrophe you thought might slam your organization? It happened. You got the dreaded phone call in the middle of the night from your lawyers, your compliance people or (horrors!) the media that (pick one or more): 1. Employees created millions of fraudulent savings and checking accounts on behalf of clients without their consent. 2. Management was bribing officials worldwide to win lucrative contracts. 3. Executives were caught in huge money-laundering and corruption crimes.  

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Finding Truth in the Darkness: Filmmaker Details Discovering Russian Doping Scandal

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Finding Truth in the Darkness: Filmmaker Details Discovering Russian Doping Scandal

Grigory Rodchenkov is not your typical whistleblower. In fact, some would even argue he shouldn’t be called one. He does not fit the description of a sentinel and will most likely not be winning awards for his efforts like Michael Woodford at Olympus or Sherron Watkins at Enron. For years, he chose country over truth; self over truth; maybe even survival over truth. But, in the end, with the help of filmmaker and writer Bryan Fogel, he chose truth over all of those things and did something remarkable.

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When the Fraud Victim Becomes a Fraud Enabler

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When the Fraud Victim Becomes a Fraud Enabler

When starting out in the anti-fraud field, it may be common to view things as black and white; there is the fraudster, who is bad and deserves to be punished, and the victim, who is innocent and deserves to have their losses recouped. However, as many veteran fraud examiners know, things are rarely that clear cut. In her session “Encounters with a Sociopath: The Saga of a Million-Dollar Fraud” at the 29th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, Ginny Tate, CFE, CIRA, EA, took attendees through the wild story of a fraud where the line between victim and enabler was blurred.

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