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Fraud Eats Strategy

Fraud Eats Strategy

By: Scott Moritz
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 Join us to hear about crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, warlords, and kleptocrats. The Fraud Eats Strategy series is the distillation of experiences, whether it's an accounting scandal, arrests, search warrants, loss of market cap, or all of those things at once – one thing is sure. Failure to consider fraud and corruption risk can upend your strategy and lead to disaster. Economics Political Science Politics & Government True Crime
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  • The Last of the Watchdogs

    The Last of the Watchdogs
    Mar 20 2025
    On inauguration day, President Trump rescinded numerous Executive Orders from prior administrations including one in which appointees within each Executive Branch Agency was required to sign a pledge not to accept gifts from lobbyists, recuse themselves from matters related immediate former employers or clients for 2 years, and not to participate in any matter for which they lobbied the government as a registered lobbyist for 2 years. The pledge also required appointees upon leaving government not to communicate with their former agency or senior White House Senior Staff for 2 years, not to assist others to do so, not to lobby the U.S. government or on behalf of a foreign government or political party, not to accept a golden parachute payment coinciding with the acceptance of an appointment and to make employment decisions on their merits. The President has made a series of unorthodox appointments to head major government agencies including people who have publicly advocated for disbanding and/or radically changing those agencies and calling them “irredeemably corrupt” or other extremely derisive terminology. Also on inauguration day, the President pardoned ~1500 January 6th rioters and commuted the sentences of 14 others. Then, the DOJ mandated that the FBI turn over the names of all FBI personnel who participated in the January 6th investigations and fired or threatened to fire anyone who refused to comply. This was preceded by over a dozen firings of senior FBI and DOJ officials who played a substantive role in the January 6th investigations and prosecutions. Ultimately, the names of ~5000 FBI personnel were turned over without much assurance that their names wouldn’t be publicly released posing genuine safety concerns. But perhaps the biggest body blow to the federal law enforcement community came on January 24, 2025 when President Trump fired 16 inspectors general of the 16 largest, most complex U.S. government agencies and a 17th, the IG for USAID Paul Martin, 2 weeks later. In case that purge wasn’t enough to upend the government’s ability to police itself, Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel and David Huitema, Director of the Office of Government Ethics were also fired. And the upheaval continues unabated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • Pig Butchering: The Intersection of Romance Fraud and Human Trafficking

    Pig Butchering: The Intersection of Romance Fraud and Human Trafficking
    Feb 5 2025
    Of the various fraud scheme names that have been coined over the years, “Pig Butchering” is one that provokes the most visceral response based on the name alone. And yet, the actual act of Pig Butchering is even more horrible than the name suggests. It is the latest variation of an age-old type of crime under the umbrella of “Romance Schemes”. People who prey on the lonely and elderly pretending to be a potential romantic partner with the express purpose of defrauding them. Guest Erin West, founder of Operation Shamrock, speaks about the mission to raise awareness of pig butchering with everyone, everywhere, all the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 mins
  • The Existential Threat of China

    The Existential Threat of China
    Oct 23 2024
    A discussion on China's state-sponsored theft of intellectual property from the U.S. and other leading economies with guest Frank Figliuzzi. Frank is a national security contributor and regular columnist for NBC News and MSNBC. He was the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the government. He is the author of “The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence”, and his most recent book "Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
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