White Collar Crime and Fraud Podcast

Cryptocurrency is in the news. Sam Bankman-Fried was the darling of the cryptocurrency crowd and was a billionaire by the age of 30 for developing the FTX trading platform for cryptocurrency trades. ...

5 Des 202230min

Elizabeth Holmes is a direct descendent of Charles Louis Fleischmann, a Hungarian immigrant who founded the Fleischmann's Yeast Company. She attended Stanford University, studied chemical engineering...

20 Nov 202232min

In 2020, Keith Raniere, the founder and leader of NXIVM, was sentenced to 120 years for multiple crimes including sex trafficking and racketeering. His organization, NXIVM, began as a "self-help" and...

30 Okt 202231min

The Fraud Triangle is a very powerful tool used by fraud investigators and anti-fraud professionals in helping to determine how fraud occurs and looking for possible behaviors where fraud is involved....

9 Okt 202230min

Excitement is a core human emotion. We like the feeling of excitement. Excitement invokes a visceral influence which can make life enjoyable, at least certain parts of it. But white collar criminal...

11 Sep 202229min

Look at a map of the world. Now look at the country of Iceland and the island of Greenland (the largest island in the world). Iceland has some glaciers but, by and large, it is warmed by geothermal ...

28 Aug 202229min

I apologize to my listeners for the long delay between episodes. Work has been very demanding recently and, in addition, I went on a family trip to the United Kingdom. While I was in London, I was a...

31 Jul 202224min

In January 2020, like most people, I was planning my year. I had a vacation planned with my family, my trial schedule set (more or less) and an idea of achieving some goals I had set out for myself. ...

16 Jun 202233min