Your business is your livelihood. You worked hard to make it a success. Yet in the time it takes to look both ways before crossing the street, your success can become criminals’ ill-gotten gains. Fraud often flourishes because businesses aren’t proactive in protecting their assets. Often...
Paul Rodrigues, CFE, CPA, MST, CFF, closed the manila case folder and pondered its contents. A company had engaged his firm to investigate an apparent — but difficult to identify — embezzlement. Rodrigues heads the fraud and litigation practice and is a principal at Chortek &...
If a client asked for your help in confirming the source or authenticity of a handwritten document, would you recommend fingerprint analysis, a handwriting examination or both? And whose technical support would you seek? First, "be cautious about ordering latent fingerprint examinations of a document," says...
During my years in investigative work, I’ve often pondered why perpetrators commit their crimes. Working as a police officer in the Dallas Police Department, I witnessed just about every type of transgression from fraud to child abuse to murder. As fraud examiners, we use the...
Greed is everywhere. It pollutes all industries and organizations, including those dedicated to helping the poorest and most vulnerable of our society. And it breeds fraudsters within these organizations who have profound canniness and precisely zero moral queasiness when selecting their victims. Fraudsters like Emma...