Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to Keynote at 2019 ACFE Fraud Risk Management Summit

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Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to Keynote at 2019 ACFE Fraud Risk Management Summit

One of the most important objectives of any fraud examination is to find the truth. As simple as this may sound, there are a million different obstacles that can prevent fraud examiners from achieving this goal. “One's understanding of the truth — whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person — should never be unalterable,” says Preet Bharara in his New York Times best-seller Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law. Bharara will speak to anti-fraud executives at the 2019 ACFE Fraud Risk Management Summit, to be held on October 17 in New York, New York.

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Certified Fraud Examiners Receive High Praise at 2017 LEGA Summit

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Certified Fraud Examiners Receive High Praise at 2017 LEGA Summit

On Jan. 19, 2017, The Western Union Company (Western Union) agreed to forfeit $586 million and admitted to criminal violations including willfully failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and aiding and abetting wire fraud. A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars being sent to China in structured transactions designed to avoid the reporting requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act, and much of the money was sent to China by illegal immigrants to pay their human smugglers.

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Organizations Around the World Take a Proactive Approach to Tackling Fraud for Fraud Week 2017

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Organizations Around the World Take a Proactive Approach to Tackling Fraud for Fraud Week 2017

Hundreds of organizations, such as AIG, Maersk and Voya have pledged their support to spread fraud awareness during International Fraud Awareness Week, November 12-18, 2017. Fraud Week was founded by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and is an opportunity for organizations and individuals to focus time, energy and resources into educating employees and community members about fraud.

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Acting Assistant Attorney General to Outline DOJ White-Collar Crime Priorities at Fraud Summit

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Acting Assistant Attorney General to Outline DOJ White-Collar Crime Priorities at Fraud Summit

With the increasingly international nature of business, the U.S. Department of Justice is keeping its eye on white-collar criminals both within and outside the U.S. White-collar criminal schemes seem to have no bounds. "Email, internet, computer intrusions and spoofing schemes, often originating from beyond our borders, are on the uptick,” said acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco, J.D.

Blanco will discuss the future of the DOJ’s white-collar crime enforcement at the 2017 ACFE Law Enforcement and Government Anti-Fraud Summit in Washington D.C., October 30.

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