June 20, 2017

Conducting a Contract Fraud and Abuse Risk Examination

June 20, 2017/ Emily Primeaux

Contract and procurement fraud can be tricky to prevent when the integrity of an organization is compromised. Take, for example, an employee who is tasked with hiring an office cleaning crew. They know of one cleaning crew that’s fantastic and want to make things easier by giving them the bid. However, they know the crew doesn’t work in the mornings — they’ll only come in the afternoon or evening. In an effort to “win them the contract,” the employee withholds the full scope of the job requirements.

October 26, 2016

Pulling the Thread to Unravel 1MDB: How Clare Rewcastle Brown Uncovered Billions of Dollars in Global Corruption

October 26, 2016/ Sarah Hofmann

Clare Rewcastle Brown may be a seasoned reporter, but the founder of the Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak never set out to expose the international 1MDB scandal when she began reporting about Malaysia in 2010.

October 13, 2016

Investigative Journalist Who Exposed 1MDB says “We’re Seeing a Swing of the Pendulum” on Worldwide Corruption

October 13, 2016/ Sarah Hofmann

Brown will address anti-fraud professionals from the Asia-Pacific region at the 2016 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, 20-22 November. Despite having an arrest warrant issued for her by a Malaysian court, Brown remains optimistic that corruption on a global scale can be defeated. She said, “I do think we’re seeing a lashback and 1MDB is going to be just one example of enforcement agencies hitting back.”

September 07, 2016

Asia-Pacific Conference Keynote Sees "Swing of the Pendulum" in Global Corruption

September 07, 2016/ Sarah Hofmann

One of the keynote speakers for the 2016 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific, Clare Rewcastle Brown, is all too familiar with the reach of global corruption. Rewcastle Brown is an investigative journalist who has begun a heated international dialogue by publishing accounts alleging corruption occurring in Malaysia.
"I think we're seeing a swing of the pendulum. I think that 1MDB has cropped up at perhaps the right place, the right time," she said. "This whole off-shore financial structure that's been allowed to grow ... the whole thing's got out of control and I think governments all over the world are starting to realize they've lost control."

June 14, 2016

Barboza’s Early Audacity Prepared Him For His China Corruption Articles

June 14, 2016/ Dick Carozza

In the 1990s, David Barboza — then a sophomore at Boston University — wanted to emulate authors such as Robert Caro, J. Anthony Lucas and Neil Sheehan because he too desired to become a journalist and historian. “So I had this crazy idea … that I would call some of the great figures in history,” Barboza told attendees at the Tuesday working lunch, to interview them for his student papers.

June 15, 2015

How Corruption Facilitates Transnational Organized Crime

June 15, 2015/ Courtney Babin

"Sixteen years of clean audits at FIFA shows that corruption is mostly invisible," said Paul O'Sullivan, CFE, senior consultant at Paul O’Sullivan & Associates. "These people don't need a receipt for their crimes." Like the FIFA scandal, corruption isn't always loud and it isn't always in your face. Corruption is calculated. "Corruption is a proverbial iceberg — it's not always visible," said O'Sullivan.

June 15, 2015

Caldwell Says U.S. Isn’t Global Corruption Police; Has to Cooperate with International Agencies

June 15, 2015/ Dick Carozza

“We don’t want to be the world’s global corruption police,” said Leslie R. Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Monday opening General Session. “We can’t and we don’t want to be. … We are vigorously investigating international corruption, vigorously prosecuting organized crime … and we’re increasing our commitment everyday to international cooperation in our struggle to safeguard markets, our networks, our privacy and our citizens.”

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