Fraud Talk

July 2017 - Hal Humphreys, CFE, owner of FIND Investigations and Brian Willingham, CFE, owner of Diligentia Group, discuss how they each found their way to the field of private investigation.

 

June 2017 - In this episode, fellow CFEs Tiffany Couch and Janet McHard recall their first meeting and share their stories of opening up their own practices. Couch, CFE, CPA/CFF is the principal of Acuity Forensics and McHard, CFE, CPA, MAFF, CFF, is the founding partner of McHard Accounting Consulting LLP.

May 2017 -
This month's episode features an interview with Pamela Mantone, CFE, CPA, CFF, and Director at Elliott Davis Decosimo in Chattanooga, Tennessee, about a credit union employee who funneled more than $350,000 in fictitious loans into manufactured accounts.

April 2017 - In this episode, David Weber, J.D., CFE, Academic Director of Fraud Management programs at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, discusses his unique relationship with convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff.

March 2017 - Andrew Snyder, LMFT, CSAC, speaks to white-collar criminals before they go to prison in his popular “Prison Life” podcast. In this episode of Fraud Talk, we discuss insider trading, the high-profile Scott London case and how he thinks insider traders rationalize their crimes.

February 2017 - In this month's podcast, Walt Manning, CFE, President of Investigations MD, discusses the role technology currently plays in fraud investigations and gives his predictions about the future.

January 2017 -
In this episode of Fraud Talk, Bret Hood, CFE, the director of 21st Century Learning & Consulting, explains how fraud examiners can suffer from choice paralysis when receiving large amounts of information through data analytics.

 

December 2016 - In this interview with David Debenham, J.D., LLM, MSc, CFE, DIFA, C.F.I., C.F.S., Co-Chair, Supreme Court of Canada Practice Group, Co-Chair, Fraud Law of McMillan LLP, he discusses the impact of Canadian privacy laws on fraud investigations as established by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the Digital Privacy Act.

November 2016 - In this interview with Steve McFarland, CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, he shares some commons scams he has seen targeting seniors and other consumers and discusses how to prevent them.

October 2016 - To commemorate the 50th episode of Fraud Talk, ACFE VP and Program Director Bruce Dorris, J.D., CFE, CPA, and ACFE VP of Education John Gill, J.D., CFE, highlight three news stories and what they mean for fraud examiners.