Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
The Justice for Fraud Victims Project leaders, professors Dr. Marie Rice and Dr. David Glodstein, shared more about the JFVP during their virtual presentation at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference.
Read MoreDuring his breakout session at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, Lavderim Hysa, CFE, CPA, reviewed the strategies and tools the FBI Financial Investigative Team used to uncover the largest real estate Ponzi scheme in Miami, Florida’s history. The mastermind behind the scheme that defrauded 8,400 investors of $1.3 billion was Robert Shapiro, former owner of Woodbridge Investments.
Read MoreWhistleblowing, says Tom Devine, isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s existed for as long as there’s been an organized society. Devine, the 2025 recipient of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award, told attendees during the Tuesday morning General Session at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, that as long we have had an organized society, we have had people intent on breaking rules and people who believed in doing the right thing and calling out the rule breakers.
Read MoreLaci Mosely, actress, comedian and author, as well as host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, shared with 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference attendees the eye-opening moment she had when meeting a whistleblower of a story she was covering.
Attendees of the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference received a lesson in negotiations and effective interviewing from Chris Voss, a former international FBI hostage negotiator and bestselling author of “Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It.”
When approaching any fraud investigation, it is crucial for anti-fraud professionals to remain open, to leave no stone unturned. We are taught to seek out the truth, but how do we remain unbiased? In his session, Bret Hood, CFE, shared with attendees of the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference the importance of not allowing your biases to cloud your judgement.
Read MoreMarina Walker Guevara opened her keynote session at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference by connecting her work as an investigative journalist to the work that fraud examiners do every day. “There is so much in common between your profession and my profession. Similar challenges, similar methodologies and a similar level of obsessive personality of which we are very proud.”
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