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- September 20, 2024
Fraud, Fakes & AI: The New Corporate Battleground
The firm had an illustrious history and a sophisticated executive team. But its profits made it a prime target, and last year, a victim of a new-age crime worth some attention. The company, Arup, based in the United Kingdom, was founded nearly 80 years ago. It employs more than 18,000 employees in 140 countries to […]
Read More- August 01, 2023
The Santos Scandal: A Deep Dive into Deception (Part 3)
The first two posts regarding George Santos detailed how a thorough review of public records long before the November 2022 elections could have revealed falsehoods regarding Santos’ claims of employment and education, and raised red flags about the origins of his sudden personal financial gains in 2022 and his corporate connections. This final post examines […]
Read More- July 13, 2023
The Santos Scandal: A Deep Dive into Deception (Part 2)
The first post in this series [The Santos Scandal: A Deep Dive into Deception (Part 1)] detailed evident false statements by George Santos about his employment history and education, as well as problematic information regarding his financial assets in 2022 and odd patterns in his congressional campaign’s financial accounting. This post will examine how public […]
Read More- July 06, 2023
The Santos Scandal: A Deep Dive into Deception (Part 1)
The congressional candidate’s website said he briefly attended an elite private school in the Bronx, New York. His campaign literature said he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. In a required financial disclosure form filed five months before his failed 2020 election attempt, he claimed his earned income in 2019 consisted of a $55,000 salary. […]
Read More- April 21, 2023
Exposing Secrets: 6 Forensic Techniques to Decrypt the Teixeira Leak
The leak of classified documents by Jack Teixeira, an airman first class of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, has sent shockwaves through the intelligence community. While Teixeira has been identified and arrested, the investigation is far from over. This article delves into six forensic investigation techniques that will be used by federal investigators to reconstruct […]
Read More- April 17, 2023
Investors Should Have Seen FTX Coming
COMMENTARY By R. Jeffrey Smith Managing Director, RosettiStarr LLC (A version of this article was published on March 26, 2023 in Barron’s.) Everything looked ideal, until it didn’t. A supposed whiz kid with MIT branding who had made a small fortune in currency-price arbitrage invited investors to make much larger fortunes, using a special trading sauce […]
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