Fraud Eats Strategy

Fraud Eats Strategy

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.

Episodes

The Last of the Watchdogs

March 20, 2025 • 38 mins
On inauguration day, President Trump rescinded numerous Executive Orders from prior administrations including one in which appointees within each Executive Branch Agency was required to sign a pledge not to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 yea...
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Pig Butchering: The Intersection of Romance Fraud and Human Trafficking

February 5, 2025 • 23 mins
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 ...
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The Existential Threat of China

October 23, 2024 • 35 mins
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...
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After the Fraud: Recovering Losses in an Insurance Claim

September 25, 2024 • 26 mins
Losses from a major financial crime can have a long term, negative impact on an organization.  The odds of recovering those losses are not great. In fact, many fraudsters embark on their criminal path because of the financial wreckage that is their personal lives. Divorces, job losses, health crises and addictions often cause otherwise decent, law-abiding people to lose their minds, become desperate and commit fraud. Fraudsters who...
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Avoiding Trial by Fire: A Primer on Crisis Communications

September 4, 2024 • 28 mins
“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”. Certainly, this quote, who depending on who you ask is attributable to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln or Confucius, is a great way to encapsulate the importance of crisis communications.   We have all seen examples of how things can go from bad to worse when someone steps to the podium during a crisis that is unfolding and makes public pronounc...
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Interview Techniques & Detecting Deception on Zoom

August 21, 2024 • 28 mins
In this episode, we talk about remote witness interviews and how to make the best of a bad situation using time-tested interrogation techniques and other methods. While things are starting to return to something resembling normal, our use of video conferencing as a business tool is here to stay. I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about use of body language and other techniques to try to limit a witness or deponent’s ability to b...
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Open Source Intelligence: The Tip of the Compliance Spear

August 14, 2024 • 42 mins
Some human beings are wonderful. Some are middle of the road and some are truly terrible. Terrible human beings are frequently indistinguishable from wonderful ones. How can we tell them apart? In the context of business relationships, the tip of the compliance spear in attempting to separate the good from the bad is frequently open source intelligence investigations. Sometimes referred to as investigative due diligence or backgrou...
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Bullet Proof FCPA Due Diligence

July 31, 2024 • 38 mins
In this episode we going explore “bullet-proofing” your FCPA acquisition due diligence, merger integration and the government’s recent revisions to the FCPA Resource Guide and Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance. Gone are the days when the potential bribery and corruption risk of an acquisition can afford to be something assessed at the 11th hour or not at all. Successor liability stemming from undiscovered bribery...
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Less Perilous Harbor: What DOJ's M&A Safe Harbor Portends

July 24, 2024 • 23 mins
Successor liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has been a risk for companies since the statute was first enacted. But until recently, the DOJ and SEC have been deliberately vague in terms of the guidance offered and their expectations about FCPA due diligence and the time imperatives surrounding post-merger integration as it relates to combining compliance programs. That all changed in October of 2023 when Deputy Attor...
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Deconstructing the Minds of White-Collar Criminals

July 3, 2024 • 32 mins
In this episode, we delve into the psychology of white-collar criminals. White-criminal criminals are often treated differently than other categories of criminals which provokes a response unlike other crimes. White-collar criminals are not better than or more deserving of leniency than other categories of criminal, it’s just that they are wired differently and understanding that fact can better position us to help safeguard organi...
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Curbing Crypto Crime: The Role of Crypto Exchanges in Helping Enforce the Rules of the Road

June 26, 2024 • 27 mins
In this episode we have an ambition agenda. We are going to provide a high level overview of virtual currencies, blockchain technology and the vital role of crypto exchange, touch upon some spectacular failures in the crypto space, how the incidence of crypto crime is going down and the role that exchanges like Binance are playing in the mitigation of crypto crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Evil on the Open Road: Inside the FBI's Highway Serial Killer Initiative

June 19, 2024 • 41 mins
The FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and Violent Crime’s Apprehension Program (ViCAP) help coordinate cross border violent crime by assisting police departments with behavioral science profiling and by maintaining a massive law enforcement database on unsolved violent crimes largely serial murders.  Joining me today is former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi. In total, Frank served as a special agent for 25 years. Frank is the a...
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Human Trafficking is Everyone’s Problem: Steps that Organizations Can Take to Disrupt Human Trafficking

December 17, 2021 • 44 mins
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing transnational crime with more than 25 million people held in forced labor and sexual exploitation. As if these numbers aren't horrifying enough, 10 million of those trafficked people are children, and yet rarely are US organizations focused on human trafficking's impact on their operations, much less society as a whole. In fact, most of us consider human trafficking to be a problem occurring...
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Investigation Challenges: The More Things Change, the More They Stay The Same

October 15, 2021 • 50 mins
Host Scott Moritz was a guest speaker at the October NAVEX Next Virtual Conference joined by Gregory Coleman, a former FBI colleague, to discuss established investigation techniques and how some of these practices have changed in recent times. For more information visit: FraudEatsStrategy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Navigating the Steps of an FCPA Investigation - Part 2

September 15, 2021 • 23 mins
In Part 2 of this series we continue the conversation of how to bring order to the chaos of the early days of an FCPA investigation. For more information visit FraudEatsStrategy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bringing Order to the Chaos: Navigating the Steps of an FCPA Investigation

September 8, 2021 • 32 mins
In part 1 of this Fraud Eats Strategy series, we discuss how to bring order to the chaos of the early days of an FCPA investigation and avoid mortgaging the company’s future in the process. For more information visit FraudEatsStrategy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Part 2

September 1, 2021 • 28 mins
In part 2 of this series, we continue to discuss the tools that cybersecurity teams use to combat ransomware attacks. For more information visit FraudEatsStrategy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Part 1

August 25, 2021 • 27 mins
Ransomware is a type of malware used by criminal organizations to gain unlawful access to computer networks and encrypt the data stored on those networks and render it unusable. The criminal organization then holds the data hostage until a ransom payment is made. If the ransom is not paid, the victim organization’s data will either remain encrypted and unusable or it could be released to the public.  For more information visit Frau...
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The 3 Regulatory Mandates Banks Fear the Most: Monitorships, Lookbacks and KYC Remediations

August 16, 2021 • 43 mins
Monitorships, transaction lookbacks and KYC remediations are the equivalents of a regulatory vote of no confidence. They can be incredibly disruptive, painful and can cost millions of dollars to implement. They are extreme measures that are taken when regulators have seen no improvement in succeeding regulatory exams or sometimes happen without warning when a criminal investigation reveals how an institution was at the center of a ...
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Operationalizing Compliance

July 28, 2021 • 41 mins
This episode features special guest Tom Fox, founder of the Compliance Podcast Network and Author of The Compliance Handbook: A Guide to Operationalizing Your Compliance Program.. Click the link for 20% off of your purchase. The discussion focuses on the guidance compliance officers can use as roadmaps when architecting their Ethics & Compliance programs and anti-bribery and corruption compliance programs specifically the document ...
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