• Another Usana Representative With Falsified Credentials

    You’d think that management at Usana Health Sciences would be careful about these things, wouldn’t you? Nope. They’re Usana. They don’t have to. They’re Usana, after all. Credit Barry Minkow with uncovering another fraud being committed by Usana. After Barry […]

  • Criminal Charges for Church of Scientology

    Yesterday Belgian prosecutor Jean-Claude Van Espen recommended criminal charges of fraud and extortion for the U.S.-based Church of Scientology. He said that the results of a ten-year investigation show that the church should be labeled a criminal organization. The prosecutor […]

  • It’s the casino’s fault I gambled all my money away!

    After Caesars Indiana sued Jenny Kephart for not repaying $125,000 she borrowed during a March 2006 visit to a riverboat, she has countersued. She says that the casino should have realized she was addicted to gambling and should have stopped […]

  • Cell Phones in the Hutterite Community

    The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about the Hutterites, a group of people closely related to the Amish. There are about 49,000 of them, and they are Anabaptist Christians living in the northern U.S. plains and in Canada. […]

  • Public Company Seeks New Auditing Firm

    A public company which shall remain nameless is currently searching for new independent auditors. Is your auditing firm interested? Here are some notable facts about the company. Please email me if you’d like information on this new potential client!!! This […]

  • Passionate About Forensic Accounting

    Accounting Crossing By Amit Agarwal A certified public accountant and a nationally recognized expert in fraud investigation, Tracy Coenen is a successful entrepreneur. She has worked in the area of forensic accounting for more than 10 years and has been […]

  • Prosecutor in Duke Lacrosse Case Held in Contempt

    Mike Nifong, the former Durham County district attorney prosecuting the Duke University lacrosse witch hunt, has been held in criminal contempt of court for lying to the judge during the proceedings. He was sentenced to a whopping one day in […]

  • But I Meeded Money. (Don’t We All?)

    The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did a story on poverty, and shared the tale of woe of Jonniemae Ashford. She’s a 41-year-old grandmother raising 5 of her grandchildren. She says she takes home $187 every two weeks as a patient care […]

  • Corporate moles

    A growing problem for companies is the presence of corporate moles – – employees who are stealing information and giving or selling it to outsiders (especially competitors). Anti-fraud software maker Actimize conducted a survey on this issue, and included 40 […]

  • Six signs of internal fraud

    This is taken from the White-Collar Crime Fighter newsletter. You can subscribe to the full newsletter here, as well as access other fraud-fighting resources.