3/28/20224 An alert student spotted yet another CEO fraud, take a read.

3/28/2024 An alert student found this Covid fraud scheme. This is what ha[[ems when Congress creates free money with no controls

Thursday 3/28/2024 A former employee of a Texas trucking company featured in a reality TV show was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in prison for stealing more than $1.4 million from the firm. Veronica Rios — an administrative assistant who processed payroll at Texas Chrome Transport Inc. in Atascosa — overpaid some employees in exchange…

3/24/2024 Losing $103.3 M is not a slilp up!  The Senator is also sponsoring a  bill that would  charge any Defense Dept 1% of their budget if they cannot pass a audit. The Defense Dept has never passed an audit since the requirement began in  1990.

3/13/24     Janet Mello, the former civilian Army employee who looted more than $100 million from a youth program for military families, is notorious for spending the money on designer accessories, luxury cars and high-end real estate. Parcel company drivers delivered so many boxes of Louis Vuitton, Coach, Gucci and other designer brands to…

2/22/2024     Chris Pettit, who perpetrated one of the largest swindles of client money in Texas history, may spend the rest of his life in prison. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia on Wednesday sentenced the 56-year-old disgraced attorney to 50 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts each of wire…

2/21/2024 Two of Japan's biggest airlines report cheating by their drivers on required exams.   JAL found, through an internal investigation prompted by an employee’s report,   As always a tip line alerted the airline to the fraud, this  is far and away the most frequent way frauds are discovered.

Weekend Feb 11, 2024   A man accused of falsely claiming to be a “prince” and bilking investors in San Antonio of hundreds of thousands of dollars has been arrested on a charge of wire fraud.  Alex Tannous, a 38-year-old Lebanese native, appeared Friday in federal court after the FBI arrested him when he returned from…

Weekend Jan 28 2024 CPAs receive lenthy sentences for selling fraudulent tax shelters. It is unusual to see CPAs involved in such schemes though KPMG did so on a firm wide basis. THis also illlustrates the length to which taxpayers will go to avoid  payi ng taxes.

Tuesday Jan 23, 2024 oday's encore selection — from The Horde by Marie Favereau. Chinggis (alternate spelling Genghis) Khan and his Mongol successors built an empire that, at its peak, covered some 9 million square miles of territory, making it the largest contiguous land empire in world history: "The Mongols interfered with the economic organization of…