http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:58:51 -0700 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:41:45 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m6d15-The-Original-Most-Wanted-Playing-Cards?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner I consider it a good sign--perhaps an indication of a widely felt public urge to "Hang 'em High when it comes to financial fraudsters.Let's face it, most of them can't pay the victims back, and even fewer spend much-deserved time in jail.Now Fin... Madoff securities fraud Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:41:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m6d15-The-Original-Most-Wanted-Playing-Cards?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d26-Its-official-everyone-is-a-potential-fraudster-now?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Yes Virginia, there is a fraudster in all of us, even youToday Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting director of enforcement Steve Obie came right out and said what everyone is thinking while commenting on a recent bust.:This CFTC litigation sh... securities fraud Tue, 26 May 2009 22:48:33 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d26-Its-official-everyone-is-a-potential-fraudster-now?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d22-Corporations-strangling-themselves?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner It's not fraud, but it sure is annoying . . . .As the wave of retail bankruptcies goes on and on, plenty of other companies are working hard to stay out of the hole.But oddly, at a time when jobs are scarce and hiring is frozen, a lot of workers are ... corporate insanity Fri, 22 May 2009 14:48:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d22-Corporations-strangling-themselves?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d15-20-Million-fine-a-joke-for-Carlyle-Group?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Those of you following the New York pension fund placement agent debacle are probably wondering what kind of conflict of interest stories will come from California.In the meantime, wrap your mind around the $20 million "payment" that the Ca... obscene corporate wealth Fri, 15 May 2009 09:43:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d15-20-Million-fine-a-joke-for-Carlyle-Group?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d12-Broker-rips-off-nun-who-took-vow-of-poverty?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Former Legg Mason broker William Joseph Boyle has been barred from the business for defrauding a nun, according to the recent FINRA disciplinary report.It came down like this:FINRA found that Boyle deceived a 64-year-old nun into giving him two separ... securities fraud Tue, 12 May 2009 14:42:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d12-Broker-rips-off-nun-who-took-vow-of-poverty?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d6-Star-Trek-fraud-legal-and-lucrative?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner The best frauds are the legal ones, where some diabolical character figures out a way to do something that's soul-shatteringly wrong--and leave the authorities gasping for air when they find that no statute has been violated.A multi-hundred million d... Wed, 06 May 2009 08:46:33 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d6-Star-Trek-fraud-legal-and-lucrative?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d4-Property-tax-assessment-fraud-on-the-rise?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Now that pretty much everyone who has real property in California has paid their first installment of tax on it, the pain of paying has resuscitated the old tax reassessment fraud business.It's safe to say that no one who paid the first installment i... real estate fraud Mon, 04 May 2009 13:31:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m5d4-Property-tax-assessment-fraud-on-the-rise?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d24-A-Modest-Proposal-for-new-ETFs?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner ETFs, or exchange traded funds, first became popular as listed proxies for such plain vanilla indexes as the S&P 500 (ticker: SPY) and top 100 Nasdaq issues (ticker: QQQQ).Now we have a plethora of ETFs for all manner of sectors and asset classes... ETF Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:47:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d24-A-Modest-Proposal-for-new-ETFs?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d24-Former-fallen-VC-threatens-SF-mayoral-stab?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Thanks to Connie Loizos at PE Hub, we have the inside track on a possible San Francisco mayoral candidacy by venture capitalist Joanna Rees.Rees, when she went by the name Rees-Gallanter, was involved in the embarrassing wind down of a venture capita... Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:37:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d24-Former-fallen-VC-threatens-SF-mayoral-stab?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d17-Morbid-fraud-of-the-month-award-goes-to-fake-funeral-arranger?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner You don't hear this one every day--and that's a good thing.Awards for most morbidly creative fraud planning go out to two Los angeles women who allegedly participated in a scam to cash in life insurance policies for fictitious individuals and stage f... Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:17:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d17-Morbid-fraud-of-the-month-award-goes-to-fake-funeral-arranger?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Loan-mod-fraud-doing-plenty-of-business?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Sadly, hard times can be good times for conmen and fraudsters.Many homeowners are getting robbed by phony mortgage loan consultants, as warned of here months ago.Times are only getting harder as unemployment rises and the bills keep coming, and mortg... mortgage fraud Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:02:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Loan-mod-fraud-doing-plenty-of-business?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d30-CyberKey-the-lamest-fraud-of-2009-so-far?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner It's been a banner year for clever frauds, but let's not forget about the stupid ones as well. A motley crew of criteria including stupidity, ineptitude, and inexplicable stubbornenss point to CyberKey as the biggest loser so far. Let's break out the... corporate fraud Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:11:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d30-CyberKey-the-lamest-fraud-of-2009-so-far?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Bread-and-circuses-for-senior-citizens?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner While the federal government continues trumpeting its intentions of cracking down on fraud, chiseling, conning, and duping continue unabated in Congress.The latest is a proposed $250 stimulus check for senior citizens.Why not just go back to the brea... stimulus fraud Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:36:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Bread-and-circuses-for-senior-citizens?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Car-cloning-could-put-the-boot-on-your-wallet?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner The FBI has an interesting online article on the practice of car cloning, one more way to lose your shirt in a used car transaction. One thing used car buyers usually feel pretty safe about is relying on the VIN number on the car to help trace the ve... Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:53:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Car-cloning-could-put-the-boot-on-your-wallet?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Operation-Madhouse-uncovers-mortgage-fraud-ring?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner The FBI has arraigned 21 of the 24 mortgage loan professionals it charged in a Chicago loan scam.The Bureau engineered a sting operation where FBI and other law enforcement officials posed as "straw buyers" and paralegals preparing closing ... mortgage fraud Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:38:20 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Operation-Madhouse-uncovers-mortgage-fraud-ring?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d24-Fraud-conspiracy-of-the-week?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner A bizarre scenario for students of fraud and conspiracies. This BCCI thing goes back a long way, with the peculiar death of journalist Danny Casolaro one of the chapters in a very long story.So how does a guy slash BOTH his wrists ten or twelve ... conspiracy Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:51:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d24-Fraud-conspiracy-of-the-week?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d17-Securities-attorneys-could-face-prison-sentences?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Former SEC attorney Phil Offill, Jr. and David Stocker received criminal charges from the U.S. Attorney's office recently.According to the DOJ and the SEC, which has civil suits ongoing against both attorneys, the two used illegal stock issuances to ... fake securities Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:25:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d17-Securities-attorneys-could-face-prison-sentences?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d6-Madoff-to-cop-a-plea-in-50-billion-debacle?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Ears are buzzing everywhere with news that Bernard Madoff is cutting a plea bargain deal with prosecutors.According to the New York Times, a court filing indicates Madoff waived rights in a manner consistent with striking a plea bargain.No offense to... Madoff Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:42:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d6-Madoff-to-cop-a-plea-in-50-billion-debacle?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d5-Time-to-ditch-the-regulators-for-The-Untouchables?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner Like a lot of other regular folks who have to work for a living, I continue to be incensed with Bernard Madoff's belief that his dynasty should be allowed to wallow in wealth even after he did God-knows-what with billions of dollars of other people's... Madoff lax enforcement Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:15:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d5-Time-to-ditch-the-regulators-for-The-Untouchables?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d5-SoCal-doc-defrauds-insurance-providers-by-under-medicating-AIDS-patients?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner A southern California Doctor defrauded Medicare of at least $350,000 when he under medicated, or subdosed, patients and still submitted claims for the full dosage.Dr. George Steven Kooshian , 58, of La Quinta, plead guilty last week to two count... Medicare fraud Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:32:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-1997-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner~y2009m3d5-SoCal-doc-defrauds-insurance-providers-by-under-medicating-AIDS-patients?cid=exrss-SF-Financial-Fraud-Examiner