CASE IN POINT: Bringing Down the House: Extra Effort Found Roots of Federal Housing Funds Fraud
Executives at a large housing management firm stole thousands of federal dollars from low-income, rural rental housing projects. An extensive fraud examination found more than the initial investigation.

Corruption: Causes and Cures
Auditors can help detect and deter bribery and kickbacks.

Protecting the public interest: Fraud in the government, Lessons learned while building an investigative procurement fraud detection program
It’s a fraud that affects both the public and private sector — procurement fraud. It’s also a fraud that is difficult to detect. In this session, you’ll learn how to build a proactive investigative procurement fraud detection program and how to avoid making some mistakes that could be costly and program counter-productive. Also discussed will be procurement fraud risk analysis, financial system data-mining, and the need for procurement fraud referrals.

Protecting the public interest: Fraud in the government: Stealing from the court, a case study
The analysis of any employee embezzlement fraud case study begins with the basics – the who, what, when, where, and how.

Protecting the public interest: Fraud in government. Grant/Contract fraud in the public sector
Not all fraud involves the theft of assets, but rather some involve the misuse of assets. Every year, Federal, State and Local Governments award thousands of dollars in grant/contracts to vendors. However, the grant money is not always prudently managed. This session focuses on the ways and manner in which government grants are misapplied or misused, oftentimes to the benefit of the program administrator.

Protecting the Public Interests: Mismanagement of Government Grant and Contract Funds
Fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement of government contract and contract funds will never be eliminated. But frequent, modest proactive audits and reviews that focus on fraud indicators will help identify and prevent misuse before the funds are expended.

FRAUDBASICS: Qui Tam Suits and The False Claims Act
This article is an excerpt from the Association’s Fraud Examiners Manual, Third Edition. The article covers the discussion on Qui tam Suits and the False Claims Act, pages 2.273 to 2.277.

Successful SIU: Building a Special Investigation Unit That Works
Special Investigation Units, in the private and public sectors, can fight fraud more effectively by developing professional relationships with prosecutors, marketing capabilities, and keeping current on fraud examination issues and techniques.

The Whistleblowing Details: The False Claims Act in Practice
The civil False Claims Act richly deserves its reputation as the primary workhorse in the fight against fraud in all federal programs

The Whole, Not the Parts
Outcome-oriented fraud auditing - looking at a situation as a whole rather than its individual parts - will help you think like a fraudster and find deeply embedded crimes.

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