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FraudBytes: May 2015
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Fake Diplomas: Too Good to Be True. An example of a fake diploma issued by one of Axacts. Fictitious schools, Grant Town University. Earning a diploma for high school, college, and especially for a doctoral program requires a lot of work and a lot of time. You can’t just buy a diploma—or can you? A recent New York Times. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Is an accounting professor at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah). He teaches classes on auditing and fraud...
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FraudBytes: Lance Armstrong Investigation: Odds and Ends
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Lance Armstrong Investigation: Odds and Ends. In today's news, various sources. Are reporting that Lance's lawyers are demanding an on-air apology from 60 Minutes. I personally am not holding my breath. When people ask about Lance never testing positive for PEDs, I like to reference the statement by the head of WADA, David Howman, when he explained on 60 Minutes. Which were later thrown out because his B samples were lost. In that case, we have an expert drug tester claiming ...
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FraudBytes: Vegetable Gardens and Rationalizing
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Saturday, July 11, 2015. Vegetable Gardens and Rationalizing. I’m sure many of the workers at the vegetable garden rationalized that the owners never specified how the vegetables had to be stacked in the bucket or that rocks shouldn’t be with the vegetables that were weighed. Alternatively, many of these employees probably also thought they were underpaid for working outside in the sun, and they may have felt they deserved more money. Does this make it right? See this previous post. Is an accounting prof...
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FraudBytes: Business Email Fraud
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. According to the FBI, companies worldwide have lost more than $1 billion from October 2013 through June 2015 due to business email fraud, an increasingly popular fraud tactic used by criminals to infiltrate a company’s email system and request large sums of money via wire transfer. A recent article. In The Wall Street Journal. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My experience with Asea. It’s Only Lying About Drugs (A Guest Post). Ethics and Ponzi schemes. Cameron van der Burgh.
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Computer Security | Computer Fraud / Data Protection
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Computer Fraud / Data Protection. Guidance for Incident Response Plans. Author: Melissa Krasnow Organizations are preparing for data incidents and breaches by developing, updating, implementing, and testing incident response plans. This article provides a checklist of key components of an incident response plan. Following are items from state and federal sources of guidance: “Best Practices for Victim Response and Reporting of Cyber Incidents”(April 2015) issued… Read More. VIEW ALL POSTS IN Data Breaches.
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Antitrust | Federal Securities Law Source
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Published By Porter Wright. Information on federal securities law, news and developments. Subscribe to Antitrust RSS Feed. World’s top banks plead guilty to gaming foreign-currency markets. May 22, 2015. The Bandits’ Club gets its due. October 10, 2014. Porter Wright launches Antitrust Law Source. September 8, 2014. We wanted to take a moment to announce our newest endeavor, Antitrust Law Source. The site is prepared by members of our firm’s Antitrust Practice Group. Privacy and data security. We encoura...
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FCPA officials point to dollars-and-cents benefits to self-disclosure and cooperation | Federal Securities Law Source
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Published By Porter Wright. Information on federal securities law, news and developments. FCPA officials point to dollars-and-cents benefits to self-disclosure and cooperation. FCPA officials point to dollars-and-cents benefits to self-disclosure and cooperation. March 19, 2015. Brockmeyer echoed Stokes’ comments and stated that the point is there are significant dollars-and-cents savings for companies that self-disclose. Brockmeyer cited the risks for not reporting violations have soared dramaticall...
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General Business News | Federal Securities Law Source
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Published By Porter Wright. Information on federal securities law, news and developments. Archives: General Business News. Subscribe to General Business News RSS Feed. Article sheds light on practice of private equity sponsored borrowers selecting lenders’ counsel. January 6, 2016. Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote an interesting article. Recent litigation illustrates the importance of keeping accurate stock records. December 22, 2015. December 7, 2015. Late Thursday Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that ...
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Recent Delaware case questions ability of common stockholders to prospectively waive appraisal rights; strictly enforces notice requirement to use drag along right | Federal Securities Law Source
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Published By Porter Wright. Information on federal securities law, news and developments. Recent Delaware case questions ability of common stockholders to prospectively waive appraisal rights; strictly enforces notice requirement to use drag along right. Recent Delaware case questions ability of common stockholders to prospectively waive appraisal rights; strictly enforces notice requirement to use drag along right. March 31, 2015. Michael C. Halpin, Et. Al. v. Riverstone National, Inc. Involved plaintif...
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