Table of Contents
Preface
PART 1 Asset Misappropriation 1
CHAPTER 1 High Art, Low Value: How a Connoisseur Became a Convict 3 by Ellen A. Fischer
CHAPTER 2 The Ambitious Payroll Manager 16 by John Tonsick
CHAPTER 3 The Insider 25 by Craig R. Sinnamon
CHAPTER 4 Aloha, Hawaii! 36 by Dominic A. D’Orazio
CHAPTER 5 What About Pete? 44 by Michael Goldman
CHAPTER 6 Check, Please 54 by Peter Parillo
CHAPTER 7 The MoJo Skim Twins 61 by John F. Kronick
CHAPTER 8 The Mole 71 by Manuel Pereira
CHAPTER 9 Her Passion for Fashion 79 by Bethmara Kessler
CHAPTER 10 An Unaffordable Complex 91 by Jeffrey D. Barsky
CHAPTER 11 A Taxing Problem 100 by Andrew H. Kautz
CHAPTER 12 Phantom Links In The Supply Chain 108 by Christopher J. Kelly
CHAPTER 13 The Trusting Business Owner 117 by David H. Glusman
CHAPTER 14 The $13 Million Man 126 by John Francolla
CHAPTER 15 They Didnt Know Jack 137 by Janet M. McHard
CHAPTER 16 The Skim Sisters 145 by Adam K. Bowen
CHAPTER 17 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch 156 by Suzanne Coggins
CHAPTER 18 The Dirty Custodian 164 by Paul J. Harvey
CHAPTER 19 The Video Game 172 by Carlos L. Holt
CHAPTER 20 Bet Your Life on It 183 by Howard B. Grobstein and Joshua R. Teeple
CHAPTER 21 When Petty Cash Isn’t Petty 195 by Karen Frey
CHAPTER 22 Where Did My Money Go-203 by Robert Barr
CHAPTER 23 Three Strikes and You’re Out! 212 by Mary Best
CHAPTER 24 Country Club Fraud — What a Steal! 222 by John Boekweg
CHAPTER 25 Where in the World Is Dina Sanchez? 233 by Briana J. Paciorek
CHAPTER 26 School of Fraud 242 by Nessan Ronan
CHAPTER 27 Price Check on Register One 251 by Dwight Taylor
CHAPTER 28 The Sky Is the Limit 260 by Brian E. Browning
CHAPTER 29 Supplemental Income 268 by James E. Whitaker
CHAPTER 30 An Innocent Perpetrator 276 by Howard C. Sparks
CHAPTER 31 Dr. Amy 285 by Stephen A. Pedneault
CHAPTER 32 Patriotic Game 295 by James Lee
CHAPTER 33 Would You Like the Special Poutine, If You Know What I Mean? 305 by Richard Elliott
CHAPTER 34 Three-Ring Circus: An Exposé of a Corporate Commission Embezzlement 316 by David A. Schneider
CHAPTER 35 One Bad Turn Deserves Another 327 by Forrest Bowman Jr. and Charles F. G. Kuyk III
CHAPTER 36 Dialing for Dollars 337 by Ian Henderson
CHAPTER 37 Wake-Up Call 343 by Michael Speight
CHAPTER 38 The Dental Queen 351 by Kenneth J. Wilson
CHAPTER 39 Shirley A. Little Wouldn’t Hurt! 358 by A. T. “Chief” Schwyzer
CHAPTER 40 Just When You Thought It Was Safe 368 by Frank D. Moran Jr.
CHAPTER 41 How Many Ways Can I Defraud You? 378 by David Clements
PART 2 Corruption Schemes 389
CHAPTER 42 A Contract of Convenience 391 by Robert B. Walsh Jr.
CHAPTER 43 Corruption by Seduction 404 by Douglas M. Watson
CHAPTER 44 “Big Easy” Business 418 by Patrick W. Malik and Jeffrey R. Sebree
CHAPTER 45 Unlucky 13 425 by Graham J. Thomson
CHAPTER 46 It ’s 11 p.m. Do You Know What Your IT Director Is Up To? 434 by John Kula
CHAPTER 47 These Weights Didn’t Measure Up! 444by Joseph R. Dervaes
CHAPTER 48 Swimming with the Sharks 455 by Pedro Fabiano
CHAPTER 49A New York State of Fraud 466 by Martin T. Biegelman
CHAPTER 50 Information Superhighway 477 by Barry Davidow
PART 3 Financial Statement Fraud Schemes 491
CHAPTER 51 Banking on Fraud 493 by Jason Lee
CHAPTER 52 Just a Matter of Time 502 by Margaret Smith
CHAPTER 53 Bury Me Not in Guyandotte 510 by John W. Burdiss
CHAPTER 54 The Woolly Mammoth Eats Its Prey 519 by Paul Pocalyko and Charles N. Persing
CHAPTER 55 Double Damage 527 by Matthias K. Kopetzky
CHAPTER 56 How to Steal a Million Dollars Without Taking the Cash 536 by Richard A. Riley
PART 4 Other Fraud Schemes 547
CHAPTER 57 This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land 549 by Andrew Pappas
CHAPTER 58 Paradise Lost 560 by Pierre E. Lautischer
CHAPTER 59 BODIES FOR RENT 568 by Rebecca S. Busch
CHAPTER 60 The Million-Dollar Breach of Trust 577 by Holly Frook Graham
CHAPTER 61 Troubled Water 587 by Dimiter Petrov Dinev
CHAPTER 62 Con Artists Gone Wild 596 by Heinz Ickert
Index 607
