ACFE Launches New Website

After many months of testing, retesting and testing the retested, the ACFE officially launched a newly-designed ACFE.com. The ACFE web team combined member feedback with the latest web design principles to make the site more useful and more valuable.

The new site features: 

• Improved navigation and search to make it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for
• More ways to share, rate and respond to anti-fraud resources
• Clean design that puts the most-used features at your fingertips

Have feedback? Email the ACFE at webmaster@acfe.com.

CEO Speaks Out

Ousted Olympus CEO takes case to UK fraud body

Reuters

Ousted Olympus CEO Michael Woodford told BBC radio he had been sacked because: "I sent a letter to every board member and also the senior partners of Ernst and Young around the world with the PWC report I commissioned which confirmed that Olympus had paid $687 million to unknown parties in the Cayman Islands."

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Jake Gyllenhaal as Harry Markopolos?

The "secret" whistleblower at BNY Mellon: How Grant Wilson and his new partner in no-crime, Harry Markopolos, are changing the game

Forbes

I can see the movie scripts being churned out now.  The film, based on a true story, profiles Harry Markopolos’ evolution from an independent investment fraud vigilante to a powerful fraud robo-cop who is revered by everyone from prosecutors to protestors and feared by those who toil away for profit on Wall Street. 

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Small Businesses Vulnerable to the Wandering Employee

How to prevent rogue employees

The Street

Small-business owners have enough to worry about. The last thing they need to deal with is an employee gone rogue.

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Software Giant Settles with DOJ

Oracle agrees to $199.5-million settlement with U.S.

Los Angeles Times

Oracle Corp has agreed to pay $199.5 million plus interest to settle allegations that the software giant failed to give promised discounts to the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.

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