I would imagine that his rationalization was these people are going to die anyway. What difference does it make? Now that's horrible. He mentioned in the book that most of the fraud, at least as far as the embezzlement stuff, could be avoided with simple accounting controls. But I worked in a movie theater in the 90s and every single manager, pretty much, would eventually get fired for stealing. And it was like nine out of 10 managers that I was there with got Fired for stealing. Is that bad hiring or is it when there's too much opportunity and not enough oversight, you push towards that kind of thing generally? The environment can change any good person into a
Fool Me Once author Kelly Richmond Pope explains how fraud became a trillion-dollar industry and helps us avoid becoming its latest victims.
What We Discuss with Kelly Richmond Pope:
- What types of people commit fraud, and what — beyond simple greed — tends to motivate them?
- What is the fraud triangle, and how does it explain the factors that contribute to the occurrence of occupational fraud or white-collar crime?
- Why fraud seems more common and more severe these days than ever before.
- The multifarious faces of fraud, the criminals that perpetrate them, and their typical marks.
- How businesses and individuals can avoid becoming the next victims of this trillion-dollar industry.
- And much more...
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