(To be formally presented later this year, 2021) Consider the following three situations: 1. In the operations department of an injection molding business, the manager notes a significant uptick in the costs of electricity due to a recent weather event. This pushes the fixed costs for manufacturing up 12%. The plant manager calls the manager […]
(What We Learn at a Table Can Be Very Important) (By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar)Frank Keating was an FBI Agent from 1969-1971. He was also the Governor of Oklahoma from 1995-2003. One would think being a Governor would be a full-time job, but in June 2001, Frank Keating took time to play an artificial, but […]
(Caution – mildly graphic content; unethical surgery) This is the second of two blogs written by B4G Founding Partner David (Daven) Morrison, MD. on an historic example of medical fraud based on fear. The first blog is In the Pandemic, (see link in next paragraph) dated July 28, 2020 on this blog site. The blog […]
(Caution: Graphic content) (By Daven Morrison, MD) Recently, an alert about a local fraud threat landed in my inbox. Tied to the pandemic and contact tracing, it triggered a memory of another ignoble health- related fraud. The fraud in my inbox was straightforward. Under the guise of tracking COVID-19 cases, residents were being asked for […]
(By Vic Hartman, J.D., CPA, CFE) Law enforcement and regulators are reporting a record number of frauds relating to COVID-19. In fact, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported an increase in complaints from hundreds a day to more than a thousand a day. Victims are experiencing tremendous fear and anxiety, […]
(Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part blog posting by Drs. Sridhar Ramamoorti and Daven Morrison. The first part is in a blog posting preceding this one, written by Dr. Ramamoorti. This posting is by Dr. Morrison) (By) Daven Morrison, MD The rawness of emotion means the ripening of the field for fraud. […]
(Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-posting blog by Drs. Ramamoorti and Morrison. The second part will be in a posting immediately following this one.) (By Dr. Sridhar Ramamoorti) My Behavioral Forensics GroupTM, LLC partner, Daven Morrison, MD, recently leveraged his usual role as a concerned doctor, psychiatrist, and public intellectual who’s keenly […]
(READY-FIRE-AIM, PERHAPS?) (By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar) Pitch Drop, located at the University of Queensland, Australia, is perhaps the world’s longest-running, continuous scientific experiment. Started close to a century ago, it seeks to document whether tar pitch is liquid or solid. A lump of it was placed in a container at room temperature to see if […]
(By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar, CFE, Founding Partner, Behavioral Forensics Group, LLC) The use of metrics in anti-fraud activities is as old as the profession itself, yet fraud persists in forms great and small. It is an endeavor which will never achieve a 100 percent success rate any more than law enforcement will prevent most […]
(Can You Really Trust “Nice” People?) (By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar and Daven Morrison, MD) Since the beginning of time, “shrink” has been a problem for the retail industry. The term refers to goods lost to shoplifting and internal theft. It is generally estimated at about 4 % of potential sales, and presents a significant […]