Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
Marina Walker Guevara opened her keynote session at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference by connecting her work as an investigative journalist to the work that fraud examiners do every day. “There is so much in common between your profession and my profession. Similar challenges, similar methodologies and a similar level of obsessive personality of which we are very proud.”
Read MoreMarina Walker Guevara, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and executive editor at the Pulitzer Center, told attendees of the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference of the effect of exposing inequity to the general public through the Panama Papers.
At the Tuesday afternoon general session honoring investigative reporter Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Glenn Cook told 35th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference attendees about the time German found himself on the receiving end of a sucker punch from a Mafia associate. People unhappy with German’s reporting smashed his windows and slashed his car tires. But these acts of intimidation didn’t deter German; instead, he confronted the subject of his story one night at the old Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
Read More“Be courageous. Understand the righteousness of your work, to never doubt the importance of doing the right thing and stopping people from doing the wrong thing,” Glenn Cook stresses to attendees when speaking about the dangers of exposing fraud and corruption.
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