Fraud Exposed : What You Don't Know Could Cost Your Company Millions

by Koletar, Joseph W.

• ISBN13: 9780471274759
• ISBN10: 0471274755
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-14
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The $600 billion gorilla in the room " Dr. Joe Koletar has provided an effective road map to the problem of occupational fraud, in both the public and private sectors, in America. Such frauds affect every American worker, shareholder, and taxpayer.His insights and ideas are an important contribution to the effort to fight this growing menace." - - Congressman John E. Sweeney, New York' s 22nd District " A superb and timely book for every executive to read. Joe Koletar has brought together all the works done in the past on occupational fraud and given us a road map of what needs to be done.It will be required reading for every candidate in an MBA program." - - Thomas J. Pickard, Vice President, Corporate Security, Bristol-Myers Squibb and former Deputy Director, FBI " Joe Koletar deserves high praise for this timely and trenchant analysis of corporate crime. Bringing to bear his extensive experience in the FBI and the private sector, Koletar dissects the roots of corporate fraud, the means to prevent it, and the best way to investigate it when it occurs. Anyone wanting to understand the current spate of corporate accounting scandals should read this book." - - David Zornow, Litigation Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and former Federal Prosecuter While occupational fraud has long been accepted as the cost of doing business, Enron, Global Crossing, and other high-profile cases have proven its potential for catastrophic damage to be significant. And, paradoxically, these headline-grabbing examples are only the tip of the iceberg. The lion' s share of the estimated $600billion lost every year to workplace fraud comes from small-time kickbacks and " ghost vendor" scams that go undetected and unpunished. Fraud Exposed lets the white-collar crime cat out of the bag, presenting comprehen

Author Biography

<b>JOSEPH KOLETAR, DPA, CFE,</b> is a Principal and Service Line Leader in Ernst &amp; Young LLP&#8217;s Forensic and Investigative Services Practice in New York. Previously, he was the Director of the Forensic and Corporate Investigative Services practice of Deloitte &amp; Touche LLP. Before joining the private sector, Dr. Koletar spent twenty-five years as a special agent in the FBI, the last seven in senior executive positions.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Crime and the Law Enforcement Response.

Rethinking the Assumptions.

The State of Occupational Fraud.

Theories of Occupational Fraud.

Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics (and Occupational Fraud).

Thoughts on Occupational Fraud.

What Can We learn?

Internal Controls.

Compliance Programs.

Community, Corporate Citizenship, and Quality of Life.

What's New?

Theories of Social Deviance.

Profiling.

Neuroscience.

Game Theory.

Forensic Professionals as Organizational Pathologists.

Partnerships for the Future.

Environmental and Organizational Intelligence.

Reconceptualizations.

Leadership.

The Next Five Years.

Funding.

Visibility.

Where We Go from Here.

Endnotes.

Index.