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High Steaks Fraud | The Case of Easterday Farms
Caleb grew up in farm country, and Greg did not. No problem, though, together they talk through a case of a large ranching operation at the center of a massive fraud. ...
The Honest Truth About the Dishonesty Professor: Part 2
Caleb and Greg conclude their discussion of distinguished professor and author Dan Ariely and the issues raised around one of his most notable works. You might call it...
The Honest Truth About the Dishonesty Professor
Greg and Caleb have presented many ethics webinars together over the years, and much of the content is inspired by the research and writing of world-renowned professor...
The Koss of Doing Business
Family businesses are part of the bedrock of American entrepreneurship. But they carry their own unique risks. In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss a decades-long s...
Fruitcake Is a Crime | The Case of Collin Street Bakery
Caleb and Greg aren’t fruitcake people, but they are fraud people, and in this episode, a fruitcake bakery is at the center of a multimillion-dollar fraud. So now Cale...
Meet the Fraud Investigator: Tracy Coenen
When she was growing up, Tracy Coenen wanted to be a prison warden. It didn’t quite work out that way, but she still deals with bad guys on a daily basis. Caleb and Gr...
Fraud Bytes | The Case of MiniScribe Corporation
In the early days of personal computers, a startup called MiniScribe was a pioneer in hard disk drives. Caleb and Greg discuss the company's rise and the people and ci...
Meet the Fraud Professor: Kelly Richmond Pope of DePaul University
In this episode Caleb and Greg talk with Kelly Richmond Pope: professor, CPA, author, and documentary filmmaker. Her 2017 film, All the Queen’s Horses, documents Rita ...
PEO Fraud Is Bigger In Texas
Professional Employment Organizations (PEO) are a turnkey solution for many small businesses for payroll, workers’ compensation, health insurance and more. In this epi...
Meet the Whistleblower Lawyers: Jason Zuckerman and Matt Stock
"We go after bad guys, and once in a while our clients get paid" - In this episode Caleb and Greg talk to Matt Stock and Jason Zuckerman from Zuckerman Law. Hear all a...
There’s No Fraud like Show Business Fraud
In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss one of the most audacious scams to ever hit Hollywood. Hear how Zach Horowitz fooled investors in to giving him over $650 milli...
Remembering Crazy Eddie with Journalist Gary Weiss
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, one electronics retail chain became a phenomenon thanks to a ubiquitous ad campaign featuring a zany pitchman screaming about INSANE...
Unpayday | The Case of MyPayrollHR
Most people who get a regular paycheck probably take the payroll process for granted. So when payroll goes wrong, things get bad. In this episode, Caleb and Greg unpac...
Double, Double Oil and Trouble | The Salad Oil Scandal
Oil and water don’t mix, but oil and fraud seem to. Salad oil, that is. Caleb and Greg revisit a story that many may remember from their college accounting courses: th...
A Plethora of Pandemic PPP Fraud
The Paycheck Protection Program, aka PPP, was the main financial lifeline to small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Billions of dollars in loan...
Meet the Fraud Professor: Daniel J. Taylor of The Wharton School
Professor Daniel J. Taylor is an accounting professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Just don’t ask him about debits and credits. Professor T...
A Priest, Rabbi, and a Nun Walk Into a Fraud
“Thou shalt not steal” is the eighth commandment, but it isn’t always strictly followed in religious institutions. In this episode, Caleb and Greg unpack two cases whe...
The Golden Girls Rush | The Case of Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America
Before Medicare, nursing homes were often just old motels or converted bowling alleys. But after the landmark program became the law of the land, money flooded the ind...
Aloha Fraud | The CPA Who Ripped Off His Own Firm
In this episode, Caleb and Greg discuss the case of Patrick Oki, the managing partner of PKF Pacific Hawaii, who swiped over $400,000 from his own firm. It’s just anot...
Severely Disorganized Crime | The Case Known as 'Pappygate'
The bourbon distilling industry in Kentucky is rich with tradition, which includes employees helping themselves to bottles of rare whisky whenever they feel like it. I...
