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Book SynopsisFeaturing sixty-nine handpicked fraud cases, Fraud Casebook: Lessons from the Bad Side of Business reveals the many faces of fraud, how frauds are detected, and how perpetrators are brought to justice.
Trade Review"Don’t just read this book. Read it and then look at your organization and evaluate your company's risks. Implement the lessons learned and the recommendations to prevent future occurrences so that you won't have to go through what I and the other people in this book experienced." (
Strategic Finance, August 2008)
Table of ContentsPreface
PART 1 Asset Misappropriation 1
CHAPTER 1 High Art, Low Value: How a Connoisseur Became a Convict 3
by Ellen A. Fischer
CHAPTER 2 The Ambitious Payroll Manager 16
by John Tonsick
CHAPTER 3 The Insider 25
by Craig R. Sinnamon
CHAPTER 4 Aloha, Hawaii! 36
by Dominic A. D’Orazio
CHAPTER 5 What About Pete? 44
by Michael Goldman
CHAPTER 6 Check, Please 54
by Peter Parillo
CHAPTER 7 The MoJo Skim Twins 61
by John F. Kronick
CHAPTER 8 The Mole 71
by Manuel Pereira
CHAPTER 9 Her Passion for Fashion 79
by Bethmara Kessler
CHAPTER 10 An Unaffordable Complex 91
by Jeffrey D. Barsky
CHAPTER 11 A Taxing Problem 100
by Andrew H. Kautz
CHAPTER 12 Phantom Links In The Supply Chain 108
by Christopher J. Kelly
CHAPTER 13 The Trusting Business Owner 117
by David H. Glusman
CHAPTER 14 The $13 Million Man 126
by John Francolla
CHAPTER 15 They Didnt Know Jack 137
by Janet M. McHard
CHAPTER 16 The Skim Sisters 145
by Adam K. Bowen
CHAPTER 17 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch 156
by Suzanne Coggins
CHAPTER 18 The Dirty Custodian 164
by Paul J. Harvey
CHAPTER 19 The Video Game 172
by Carlos L. Holt
CHAPTER 20 Bet Your Life on It 183
by Howard B. Grobstein and Joshua R. Teeple
CHAPTER 21 When Petty Cash Isn’t Petty 195
by Karen Frey
CHAPTER 22 Where Did My Money Go?203
by Robert Barr
CHAPTER 23 Three Strikes and You’re Out! 212
by Mary Best
CHAPTER 24 Country Club Fraud — What a Steal! 222
by John Boekweg
CHAPTER 25 Where in the World Is Dina Sanchez? 233
by Briana J. Paciorek
CHAPTER 26 School of Fraud 242
by Nessan Ronan
CHAPTER 27 Price Check on Register One 251
by Dwight Taylor
CHAPTER 28 The Sky Is the Limit 260
by Brian E. Browning
CHAPTER 29 Supplemental Income 268
by James E. Whitaker
CHAPTER 30 An Innocent Perpetrator 276
by Howard C. Sparks
CHAPTER 31 Dr. Amy 285
by Stephen A. Pedneault
CHAPTER 32 Patriotic Game 295
by James Lee
CHAPTER 33 Would You Like the Special Poutine, If You Know What I Mean? 305
by Richard Elliott
CHAPTER 34 Three-Ring Circus: An Exposé of a Corporate Commission Embezzlement 316
by David A. Schneider
CHAPTER 35 One Bad Turn Deserves Another 327
by Forrest Bowman Jr. and Charles F. G. Kuyk III
CHAPTER 36 Dialing for Dollars 337
by Ian Henderson
CHAPTER 37 Wake-Up Call 343
by Michael Speight
CHAPTER 38 The Dental Queen 351
by Kenneth J. Wilson
CHAPTER 39 Shirley A. Little Wouldn’t Hurt! 358
by A. T. “Chief” Schwyzer
CHAPTER 40 Just When You Thought It Was Safe 368
by Frank D. Moran Jr.
CHAPTER 41 How Many Ways Can I Defraud You? 378
by David Clements
PART 2 Corruption Schemes 389
CHAPTER 42 A Contract of Convenience 391
by Robert B. Walsh Jr.
CHAPTER 43 Corruption by Seduction 404
by Douglas M. Watson
CHAPTER 44 “Big Easy” Business 418
by Patrick W. Malik and Jeffrey R. Sebree
CHAPTER 45 Unlucky 13 425
by Graham J. Thomson
CHAPTER 46 It ’s 11 p.m. Do You Know What Your IT Director Is Up To? 434
by John Kula
CHAPTER 47 These Weights Didn’t Measure Up! 444
by Joseph R. Dervaes
CHAPTER 48 Swimming with the Sharks 455
by Pedro Fabiano
CHAPTER 49A New York State of Fraud 466
by Martin T. Biegelman
CHAPTER 50 Information Superhighway 477
by Barry Davidow
PART 3 Financial Statement Fraud Schemes 491
CHAPTER 51 Banking on Fraud 493
by Jason Lee
CHAPTER 52 Just a Matter of Time 502
by Margaret Smith
CHAPTER 53 Bury Me Not in Guyandotte 510
by John W. Burdiss
CHAPTER 54 The Woolly Mammoth Eats Its Prey 519
by Paul Pocalyko and Charles N. Persing
CHAPTER 55 Double Damage 527
by Matthias K. Kopetzky
CHAPTER 56 How to Steal a Million Dollars Without Taking the Cash 536
by Richard A. Riley
PART 4 Other Fraud Schemes 547
CHAPTER 57 This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land 549
by Andrew Pappas
CHAPTER 58 Paradise Lost 560
by Pierre E. Lautischer
CHAPTER 59 BODIES FOR RENT 568
by Rebecca S. Busch
CHAPTER 60 The Million-Dollar Breach of Trust 577
by Holly Frook Graham
CHAPTER 61 Troubled Water 587
by Dimiter Petrov Dinev
CHAPTER 62 Con Artists Gone Wild 596
by Heinz Ickert
Index 607
