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Fraud
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Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
FEMA’s Rush to Resolve Sandy Fraud Issues May Only Scratch the Surface
By Robert Trautmann, Merlin Law Group
Unless you have been consciously trying to avoid it, you cannot help but know that is going on regarding Hurricane Sandy and the engineering fraud that seems to have run…
Health IT Law Blog
Sophisticated one-time hacking scam costs target $289K; useful lessons for health industry
The details of a recent hacking scam, while not in the healthcare industry, may contain useful pointers for healthcare nonetheless. A San Diego area attorney clicked a link in a…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Financial Misconduct, Penalties and Corporate Accountability: Case of Fraud Under the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act
MATTHEW PONSFORD, McGill University - Faculty of Law This project examines recent and ongoing misconduct in the financial sector and implications for corporate governance and accountability. The misconduct ranges from abusive…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
MyCoin fraud of 3,000 customers’ £250m or 43 investors of $8 million? Who to believe?
IBT reported that Bitcoin exchange MyCoin disappears with £250m in suspected Ponzi scheme. But BitCoin News Service countered that but now that the Hong Kong Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) is involved,…
Corporate and Securities Law
Bad Actor Disqualifications Are Not Sanction Enhancements
Canadian Fraud Law
Sino-Forest OSC hearing continues
The Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") has almost completed its case in the high-profile Sino-Forest Corporation ("SFC") hearing that began on September 2, 2014. SFC and certain of its former executives…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Mother Scams Daughter Out of $48K Trust Fund
A city welfare worker scammed her own daughter out of a $48,000 trust fund left by her late father, who was shot to death during a robbery in 2006. According to…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Human Rights Conference Scams
By mdavis
Once a week, maybe more, I receive an e-mail invitation to participate in a generic-sounding conference, usually in an exotic location. Often, the conference topics are human rights related --…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Ex bank boss says banks should refund “vishing” or that customers should sue
British Banker Association reported that the Mail (p12) cited the BBA’s Know Fraud, No Fraud campaign as part of efforts being made by the banking industry to protect consumers from predatory fraudsters. At…
The Right Coast
Minn. man accused of taking dead mom’s body to bank – NY Daily News
A Minnesota man might have wheeled his dead mom s body into a bank to make a withdrawal in her name, witnesses said.via www.nydailynews.comFunny, he doesn't look like etc., etc.