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Fraud
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White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Fallout from Ponzi Scheme Hits Family
By Ellen Podgor
An article in the Denver Business Journal (Jan. 21) discusses bankruptcy court proceedings against the relatives of Will Hoover, whose eponymous company was a ponzi scheme that resulted in investor…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Barry Minkow on the Rebound with New Book
By Ellen Podgor
Barry Minkow's company, ZZZZ Best, made him the face of fraud in the early 1990s along with Mike Milken and Charles Keating. A media darling for founding a purported multi-million…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Fraud: Even Compliance Officers Need Oversight
By Ellen Podgor
Many fraud cases arise from situations where oversight is lacking. What proves to be the most unfortunate are those cases where the individual handling the company oversight is the person…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Defending Cendant’s CEO
By Ellen Podgor
With the trials of former CEOs Bernie Ebbers, Richard Scrushy, and Dennis Kozlowski just getting under way, and the trial of Enron's two former CEOs (Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling)…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Another Take on Ebbers Trial
By Ellen Podgor
The New York Times weighed in with its take on the upcoming trial of Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom. In an article on Jan. 16 "Superlatives (and Contradictions) in…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Librarian Fraud
By Ellen Podgor
The December 6th post spoke of a librarian accused of fraud. The post noted how librarians and libraries are special, something that John Ashcroft found out when he tried to…
ContractsProf Blog
VCs sue over inflated purchase price
Three venture capital firms that bought Healthcare Management Resources of Hendersonville, Tennessee, are suing the sellers for fraud and breach of contract. The firms claim the previous owners generated fictitious…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
W.H. Stuart Mutuals Ltd. v. London Guarantee Insurance Co. [2004] O.J. No. 5156 Ontario Court of Appeal
The Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the finding of the trial judge who erred in holding that the insured was not in breach of its obligation to disclose all material…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Beauty Queen Fraud
By Ellen Podgor
The law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP has an e-mail service called FraudMail Alert that notifies recipients about qui tam and contractor fraud-related developments [you can subscribe…
CrimProf Blog
2001 Law Grad Convicted of Using Credit Card Scam to Pay for Law School
Christian Ehlers, a 2001 graduate of Loyola Law School who is admitted to practice in California, was convicted this week in federal court of bilking credit card companies out of…