Kathy Swanson was an accidental whistleblower. She didn't set out to really look for something, she just stumbled upon it. It's extremely difficult to be one in the case of Wells Fargo. Perhaps you're fired for tardiness. You're going to be harangued and harassed by your colleagues. And so the whistleblower experience is not always the same.
Even if there are not many obvious warning signs, a gut feeling can tell you when something seems amiss.
Kelly Richmond Pope is the Dr. Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University and the author of the book “Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry.” Pope joined Ricky Mulvey to discuss: - How to talk to aging relatives about fraud - What your “gut feeling” can tell you about potential scams - What generative AI means for the future of fraud
Company discussed: WFC
Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Kelly Richmond Pope Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
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