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National Defense July 2012 D'Agostino & Bradel	Pitfalls Abound in Contract Disputes Act Claims Preparing and filing a certified claim under the Contract Disputes Act for payment from the government for performance of a contract generally is straightforward work for contractors and their legal counsel. Yet certified claims are not without ethical pitfalls.
National Defense July 2014 Chris Nagel	Whistleblowers Cash In On False Claims Act A startling trend in defense contracting is the recent rise in payments made by industry to government agencies and whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.
National Defense October 2013 Moorhouse & Bradel	Not Hard to Run Afoul of False Claims Act Under the "reckless disregard" standard, a contractor can violate the act by not paying attention to the truth or dishonest information provided to the government in a manner that can be characterized as "reckless."
National Defense January 2007 David Hickey	Companies Must Set and Review Compliance Priorities As 2006 closed, the Department of Justice's criminal division announced the formal creation of a national task force "to promote the prevention, early detection and prosecution of procurement fraud."
Insurance & Technology November 28, 2005 Maria Woehr	Experian Fights Fraud To combat fraud in the insurance industry, Experian has released Commercial Fraud Insight, which authenticates customer and claims information.
National Defense April 2009 Hickey & Parker	White House Kicks Off New Wave of Reforms Pledges and actions in the president's first few weeks in office, signal that increased ethics restrictions on government appointees, lobbyists and contractors have arrived.
National Defense February 2009 David H. Laufman	Mandatory Disclosure Regime Raises Stakes for Contractors A new regulatory enforcement regime has now commenced that underscores the Department of Justice's aggressive approach to procurement fraud and dramatically increases the compliance and disclosure obligations of defense contractors.
National Defense February 2009 McGrath & Connolly	Final Rules on Mandatory Disclosure Effective Dec. 12, 2008, government contractors will face what rule authors characterize as a "sea change" in how government enforcement authorities expect to govern in the future.
National Defense June 2005 L. James D'Agostino	Raising the Bar To Meet the Next Wave of Reform Recent procurement scandals have prompted numerous ethics reform initiatives by federal prosecutors, regulators and legislators. Given the volume of spending related to Operation Iraqi Freedom and on-going homeland-security initiatives, the industry can expect the greatest level of scrutiny since Operation Ill Wind in the 1980s.
Bank Systems & Technology August 27, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Evolving Fraud Schemes Keep Pressure on Evolving Payments Instruments While some of the latest schemes borrow from scams past, today's fraud schemes are as sophisticated as banks' most advanced payments systems. And stopping them is still a challenge.
National Defense January 2012 David Hickey	Cutting Costs Does Not Require Cutting Compliance Lest anyone think the federal government will tolerate less contractor compliance, the current environment indicates that it is much more likely that the government will pursue allegations of non-compliance, fraud, waste and abuse with even greater vigor.
Inc. September 18, 2002 Carole Matthews	Preventing Small-Business Fraud Small businesses are more likely to become the victims of fraud than larger businesses. Here's how you can prevent fraudulent activity in your workplace.
National Defense June 2012 David T. Hickey	Small Business Compliance Issues Receive Increased Scrutiny The president and his administration, lawmakers, prosecutors, inspectors general, auditors, reporters, whistleblowers, company compliance officers, and industry watchdogs all seek to identify and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse from federal programs.
National Defense October 2006 Fayad & Hickey	Internal Investigations: Accounting for In-House Costs This article examines the treatment of certain costs for an investigation and related corrective measures under the Federal Acquisition Regulation ("FAR"), and distinguishes those in-house costs that may be recovered from those that may not for government contractors.
InternetNews February 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Former Telco Exec Convicted of E-Rate Fraud A former Texas telecom executive faces up to a maximum of 140 years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his conviction Friday for defrauding the federal E-Rate program that supports Internet connections and equipment for schools and libraries.
Insurance & Technology April 8, 2008 Nathan Conz	Medical Mutual of Ohio Seeks to Discourage Fraud Before It Occurs Medical Mutual of Ohio leverages ViPS' Star Sentinel software to better identify potentially fraudulent claims activity and discourage fraud before it begins.
National Defense August 2012 Corrigan & Kaprove	Defense Bill Shows Importance of Ethics and Compliance Programs At one hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in November, Committee Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., criticized agencies for using suspension and debarment "all too rarely," and thereby permitting millions of dollars of waste, fraud or abuse.
National Defense January 2006 Reeder & Hickey	Make Commitment To Corporate Ethics The National Defense Industrial Association puts ethical conduct on par with shareholder profits and believes maintaining the highest ethical standards throughout the defense industry has never been more important to the country.
National Defense February 2004 James McAleese	Safe Harbors of Ethical Conduct Needed in Defense Procurement In light of a recent series of isolated, highly controversial public scandals with respect to several major defense acquisition programs, it is important to create "safe harbors" of conduct so that both government and contractor personnel can work as a cohesive team .
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 Chris Costanzo	Don't Compromise Your Card Business Third parties can create a panoply of security challenges for card-issuing banks and the stakes today are higher than ever.
National Defense May 2005 Dorn McGrath	Misconduct Unrelated to Federal Contracts Could Lead To Suspension or Debarment Front-page stories on Enron, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom should make evident that failure to fully integrate corporate compliance throughout the company could prove fatal to government business.
Bank Systems & Technology March 10, 2010 Penny Crosman	Rise in Online Banking Fraud Costing Banks Customers, Study Says Ponemon Institute/Guardian Analytics study finds 40 percent of small and medium businesses change banks after a fraud incident.
Wall Street & Technology May 29, 2008 Melanie Rodier	The Need for Holistic Fraud Management Recent incidents prove that firms must take a holistic approach to risk management in order to effectively detect and prevent fraud.
InternetNews January 25, 2006 Roy Mark	ID Theft Reports Down, Losses Up Internet-related identity theft and fraud complaints may be leveling off, but overall financial losses are growing from the security breaches, new data from the Federal Trade Commission reveals.
Managed Care April 2005	Persistence Key In Blues Battle Against Fraud The health insurer's latest salvo against alleged medical crookedness was splashed across headlines around the country last month when news broke about the notorious rent-a-patient scam.
Entrepreneur February 2002 Amanda C. Kooser	Card Tricks Internet retailers face a struggle when it comes to chargebacks and fraud.
Bank Technology News October 2009 Michael Sisk	Wire Fraud's Growing Threat Just how big a problem wire fraud has become is a matter of some debate -- confusion fueled in part by banks' and businesses' reluctance to speak openly about it.
InternetNews October 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Indict Two For Internet Scam Bogus online auctions for Hurricane Katrina victims leads to charges of wire and identity fraud.
PC Magazine May 16, 2007	Who Gets Hit Most by Online Fraud? Protect yourself now! Find out where and how most online fraud originates.
National Defense December 2009 McGrath & Connolly	Industry Should Prepare for Review of Ethics Programs Contractors may soon have more complete answers as to how the Defense Department will verify contractor compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation's recent ethics program requirements.
Entrepreneur July 2006 Jacquelyn Lynn	Honesty Pays Insurance fraud is not only a crime - it's costly, too.
Entrepreneur June 2005 Melissa Campanelli	Cyber Alert! These simple tools can keep your e-tail business safe from payment fraud.
Insurance & Technology August 13, 2008 Peggy Kendler	Emerging Technologies Fight Claims Fraud Industry insiders discuss predictive modeling and other tools allowing special investigations units (SIUs) to be more proactive in their fight against claims fraud.
Bank Technology News December 2007	Enterprise Fraud Management: HSBC Boosts Bottom Line with Anti-Fraud Tool Given the credit-market turmoil of late, tightening risk controls and deploying better risk analytics firmwide can only be a good thing for financial institutions.
Search Engine Watch September 18, 2009 Marc Poirier	Click Fraud Not Dead Yet The search engines are doing a lot to counter click fraud, but there's still more to be done. They need deeper collaboration with third-party firms to reassure advertisers that their money isn't being wasted on bad clicks.
Bank Systems & Technology August 24, 2006 Nancy Feig	BITS Releases Insider Fraud Database BITS, a nonprofit consortium of 100 of the largest U.S. financial institutions, released its own insider fraud prevention service, which consists of a list of former financial institution employees who have compromised consumer information and/or knowingly caused financial losses.
Bank Systems & Technology February 29, 2008 Nancy Feig	Internal Fraud Still a Danger as Banks Adjust Strategy Internal fraud occurs every day at banks across the world. New internal fraud-detection technologies allow banks to identify suspicious employee behavior.
Bank Systems & Technology May 5, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Fraud Techniques Evolve in Parallel with Bank Products and Defenses As fraudsters' techniques evolve alongside the products and services offered by financial institutions, new steps must be introduced to stop them.
Bank Systems & Technology November 20, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	J.P. Morgan Stepping Up Fight Against Corporate Payments Fraud The bank issued a white paper that looks at the growing area of corporate payments fraud and suggests best practices for safeguarding accounts.
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010	Costly Fraud Some 5% of a manufacturing company's annual revenue is lost to occupational fraud.
Bank Technology News October 2004 Holly Sraeel	Fraud is Rising, But Victims, Banks are Fighting It Talk about fraud in banking circles and one will inevitably hit a nerve.
Bank Systems & Technology February 10, 2010 Penny Crosman	ID Fraud Grew 12% in 2009, But Wells Fargo's Fraud Losses Are Down Javelin Research's latest fraud survey finds identity fraud continues to rise, but losses are down at some banks due to fraud detection technology improvements.
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Jill Jusko	Not a Financial Exec? It's not only financial executives who could benefit from an awareness of fraud risks in their organizations.
BusinessWeek September 17, 2009 Michael Orey	Commentary: Do Shareholder Class Actions Make Sense? Not when they extract payments from innocent shareholders and let fraudsters off the hook.
InternetNews April 24, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Nab E-Rate Fraudsters A Houston-based networking company agreed Friday to pay more than $4.6 million in fines and restitution to settle E-Rate fraud charges.
CFO March 1, 2011 Laton McCartney	Where There's Smoke, There's Fraud Sarbanes-Oxley has done little to curb corporate malfeasance. Therefore, CFOs should implement a range of fraud-prevention measures.
InternetNews December 7, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Charge Former Telecom Exec With E-Rate Fraud A former South Texas telecom executive is facing nine counts of wire fraud for allegedly bilking the federal E-Rate program for schools and libraries out of more than $140,000.
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2006 Maria Woehr	Uncovering Crooked Claims Finding fraudulent claims can be challenging. But with the use of rules-based analysis, data mining and predictive modeling, insurers are waging a war on scam artists.
CFO May 15, 2012 Sarah Johnson	Speaking of Fraud Fraud-related tips reached an all-time high in the latest quarter.
InternetNews August 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Comverse Fires Former Execs Over Options Scandal Comverse Technology has fired three of its top executives a week after they were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud.