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Seen that? - A black and gold pump
in Busy with Style, on November 29, 2009
...lack. And on the balance of things, he has come off second best in the lead up to his multi-million fraud trial kicking off next month. Black and three business partners have been charged with looting...
Britian Using Genetic Tests on Asylum Seekers
in Global Mobility Report, on November 12, 2009
...ovoking outrage from rights groups. The British government says that the genetic tests have shown a fraud rate of 87% in cases where asylum seekers claim to be related to each other. In the US, langua...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ffington Post that maybe insider trading shouldn't even be illegal, claiming that it would expose fraud earlier, it would put more information out in the market and that companies will become more t...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...ld crash. As Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff told Gordon, it smells like a fraud and should be prosecuted. "The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in...
Seen that? - France Tightens Family Immigration
in Global Mobility Report, on November 4, 2009
...ss. From the moment debate started, the crosscurrents buffeting the bill were evident. The intense lobbying since the bill emerged last week from three months of bipartisan negotiations is likely to ...
Buffett bets big on US recovery
in Sox First, on November 4, 2009
...oads, which have been around since the early 1800s, won’t disappear any time soon. Berkshire is lobbying on energy policy, and this deal gives it more clout. There are some subtle synergies between th...
Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
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It was just a matter of time. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read th...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
... at best.
Truth be told, in-house processes that go unwatched and unmanaged are often sources of fraud. However, management usually does watch (at least at some level), reducing the risks posed by...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...n you read this, you can then understand how people like Bernard Madoff could get away with their fraud for so many years with his hedge fund. Which raises the obvious question: how many more Madoffs ...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
...udi Arabia, Europe and Africa. Or will the Justice Department put pressure on Britain's Serious Fraud Office to do the same and target the individuals? ...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...quot;Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon market." So what sort of fraud would it be? The most obvious would be claiming credits for forests that don't exist. Ther...
Seen that? - legal file sharing and movie downloads
in TJ's Weblog, on October 7, 2009
...'s Weblog I was waiting a long time for this. Finally File sharing services are lobbying to become ('more') legal. I'm also very curious if there will be more mainstrea...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...n in 2002 after authorities learned that its auditors had shredded documents related to Enron's fraudulent schemes and were probably complicit in those practices. Even though the firm's felony...
Elderly turn to bank robbery in recession
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
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Back in July, I did a blog entry looking at hiow bank robberies, fraud and other crimes were booming because of the recession. Now we have further evidence of the recession's impact with ...
BAE brought to justice (finally)
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...Saudi Arabian government. As I pointed out here , the uproar broke out after Britain's Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into the alleged bribery allegations. Now, it looks like the...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ken but negligently performed." Still, to cover itself the SEC is now looking at setting up a fraud college to help its officials detect financial shenanigans, reports Bloomberg . As if the stu...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
... banker Bradley Birkenfeld was this week sentenced to three years four months for conspiring to defraud the US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actua...
Banks bankrolling Congress
in Sox First, on August 27, 2009
...is report put out by the non-profit Public Citizen group. According to the report, lobbyists and lobbying firms representing the biggest recipients of the bailout money, courtesy of the US taxpayer...
Oil industry plans grass roots lobbying campaign on climate change
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...will be. But one thing's for sure: if the oil industry struggles to present a united front, its lobbying will be as good as destroyed....
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...hich raises the obvious question: who's next? How could his wife Ruth Madoff not know about the fraud? And what about the fund managers who sent him money from investors?...
No bail for Black
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
... have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's cha...
Climate change junket for Congress
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
Diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, waking up in a plush hotel in Waikiki and spending New Years Eve in Christchurch watching fire works. All part of the job for members of Congress who went on a fact finding mission to investigate climate change. According to The Wall Street Journa...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
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The big accounting fraud news this week was the Security and Exchange Commission announcing that conglomerate GE had cooked the books, boosting its earnings by $785 million and its revenues by ...
Sipera Systems Launches UC-Sec 100 Security Appliance
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 7, 2009
...rk and protection against VoIP and UC security vulnerabilities and zero day threats, including toll fraud, eavesdropping and data theft," writes eWeek's Nathan Eddy .
"Like all Sipera...
Exxon Mobil lobbies on climate change
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
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Energy companies are spending millions lobbying on climate change and when you're the biggest oil producer, you will be paying more to buy the politicians. Which is why it's not surprisi...
Goldman Sachs in the gun
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
... reports that the US Senate is probing Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank in relation to possible fraud connected to the market meltdown. The WSJ reports: "The congressional investigation appea...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...fficers and chief executive officers to reimburse the company bonuses and stock profits following a fraud. The rationale behind the legislation is that they were running the company when misleading in...
Recession-fuelled crime wave
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...economy expected to contract by 4.2%. In recession-stricken Britain, the Daily Mail reports that fraud by company directors is up 313%. Petty theft has risen massive 25%, shoplifting 10% and drug o...
Paulson, Goldman Sachs and the four tiers of US Government
in Sox First, on July 18, 2009
...he financial services sector is another tier of government. At the same time, the finance sector is lobbying furiously to stop the Obama administration bringing in the most basic protections for inves...
Act now for first-time homebuyer tax credit
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 16, 2009
...he National Association of Realtors, to extend the tax credit past the Dec. 1 deadline. They're lobbying legislators now. It's hard to say if they'll be successful, but I wouldn't be s...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-11
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Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
... you own a home in Los Angeles, watch out for the scammers. Your city leads the nation in mortgage fraud , according to the FBI's annual mortgage fraud review.
The FBI's Los Angeles field of...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
If you want to read a chilling story, try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a Hesperia, Calif., homeowner who thought she was working with ...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... with it. "There may not be anyone who can improve on the scale and ingenuity of Madoff's fraud. However, it is a recurring theme in human nature that someone in the next decades will try to...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
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The global stimulus packages are likely to provide massive opportunities for fraud, according to a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 ...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 22, 2009
As the number of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams.
The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage payments or those who are facing foreclosure. They promise to modify these homeowners'...
NFL Week 6
in End Zone Buzz, on June 19, 2009
...nd promised to appear in Texas to face burglary and like 7 counts of drug related charges involving fraud and delivery.
Ouch!
So I wonder... as a disgruntled fan, can I get a refund out of some of...
Climate change impacts
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...ses and organizations led by manufacturers, power companies, and the oil and gas industry have been lobbying on climate change and Congress has shown itself to be a captive of lobbyists for industries...
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-17
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Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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Bernard Madoff, who has pleaded guilty to 11 charges of fraud, money laudnering, perjury and theft, faces up to 150 years in jail. And his victims want exactly that! The New York Times reports ...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
... the Australian Crime Commission that organized crime syndicates could cash in on the pandemic with fraud, robbery and a black market in bootleg medicine. The Commission warned: "Criminal groups ...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...ecretary Timothy Geithner trying shelve the accounting rule change. They are also spending millions lobbying Congress. Not content with their $700 billion bailout, the banks want to keep investors in ...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
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Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all about Mozilo's downfall in this Reuters story .
Mozilo is a cautionary...
Conrad Black's landmark case
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
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Conrad Black's appeal against his fraud conviction will have massive implications on the system, regardless of what the decision is. Black, as we know, was convicted two year ago of a a $6.1-m...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...d others? Did PwC leadership - US, global, and Indian- enable and perhaps promote complicity in the fraud called 'India's Enron' for the sake of their consulting business strategy? Did Sat...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 10, 2009
...ies and Exchange Commissions stuffed up big time with Bernard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Government Accountabilit...
The Capri, Europe's Ford Mustang and BMW Beater
in Classical Drives, on May 8, 2009
...2009, the Capri Club North America will be holding its 9th Annual Capris at Carlisle show and are lobbying the show's organizers to establish a class for European-built models. West coast Capri ...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
...r industry. According to that report, they spent almost $370m in Washington over the past decade on lobbying and campaign donations. Top of the list was Countrywide which made $97 billionin subprime l...
TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-05
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Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are being sued for negligence fraud and deceit and as Frank Partnoy, a professor at the San Diego School of Law and a former deriv...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have the Los Angeles Times telling us of criminal probes into possible securities...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
...nce, and people start spending again. But William Black , Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention warns that this amounts to a cover up. In an interview with Bill Moyers , Black sa...
ATM Skimmers are High Tech Robbery
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 10, 2009
© *saxon*
I know about ATM skimmers, and in general I know they are a bad thing. What I didn't know is that their use across the globe and throughout the US is dramatically on the rise. If you aren't familiar with ATM skimmers, they are a ATM/credit card reader that fit over the card ...
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...itain that recession related robberies are on the rise and other reports of a massive increase in fraud. With no sign of recovery, people are getting desperate. It's a trend that will continue ...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
... Exchange Commission charging Bernard Madoff's accountant David G. Friehling, with securities fraud, aiding and abetting investment adviser fraud, and four counts of filing false audit reports r...
Mortgage fraud and AIG
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
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Mortgage fraud is on the rise, up 26% , and it's a serious problem. Fewer loans are being processed but there's more fraud, suggesting there is a real sickness in the system. It means peo...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
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So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" th...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
...s burst - an unpleasant characteristic often manifests, according to Socionomics: rampant cheating, fraud and financial exploitation.
Bernie Madoff is one human face we can put to that characterist...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
..., a clear and worrying pattern is emerging. Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff are the first two big frauds that have come out of this meltdown and they won't be the last. Furthermore, both cases r...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...es and Exchange Commission had looked the other way and allowed Bernard Madoff to get away with his fraud. Now, the New York Post reports that bankers thought Madoff was a shyster but kept shtum. &...
An Olympic Sham Revisited
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 16, 2009
...quot;The results of the votes will be submitted to the International Golf Federation to help in the lobbying to show the outcome and support for this. Golfers have until September to vote, the decisio...
Will the Ban on Travel to Cuba Be Lifted Soon? Maybe...
in Latina Viva, on February 8, 2009
...#39;s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries. The CNN story points out that the travel industry is lobbying for change, saying that easing travel restrictions for Cuban Americans alone isn't enou...
What are different forms of supply chain fraud?
in Supplychainer, on February 1, 2009
... I read a blog post in Supply Chain Network on supply chain fraud (Read it here ) which was mentioning that in every step of the value chain, there are opportunities for fraud and these can have d...
Internetbetrug bei Hotelbuchungen floriert
in kinkaa blog - das Blog zur Reisesuchmaschine, on 31.01.09
Bin über folgende News von pressetext. deutschland gestolpert und frage mich gerade, ob es sich wohl um ein reines US Phänomen handelt. Hierzulande habe ich bis jetzt noch nicht von solchen Fällen speziell im Hotelbereich gehört.
Also Obacht da draussen, vor falschen Hotelseiten. Wir werden mit Sich...
Ponzi schemes proliferate
in Sox First, on January 29, 2009
...nevitable more Ponzi schemes would come to light. For a good reason too. With every bubble there is fraud. Look behind every bubble and you'll find the cousins of fraud, greed and unchecked enthus...
Mayor Of Gulfport Mississippi Charged With Committing "Katrina" Fraud
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 28, 2009
...Brent Warr, the mayor of Gulfport Mississippi and his wife, Laura Jean Warr, have been charged with fraud in connection with a liability insurance claim they filed.
The couple also defrauded FEMA, an...
Financial crisis to drive fraud claims
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
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The financial meltdown will result in more fraud claims and legal disputes, according to the latest report from risk management consultants Kroll . The alarming part about this report is the war...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 20, 2009
Siemens is upbeat about its chances of getting its insurers to pay a big chunk of the $1.3 billion it paid to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany. And that's a worry because it leaves you wondering whether the company has learned any lessons from the debacle. Law...
The Effect of Satyam's Revelation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 10, 2009
...stantial pressure to show results, particularly as the world economy deteriorated .
Whether the fraudulent statements by Satyam or the Indian governments late-but-strong reaction to it will affect...
