[UPDATE, July 8, 2021: Claypool on Wednesday was sentenced to three years in federal prison. He agreed to forfeit $7.8 million in “criminally derived proceeds” after already paying more than $8 million in restitution.] The U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon charged former grass seed company executive Christopher Claypool with multiple counts of wire…
It was a record year for U.S. federal prosecution of corruption and fraud. The Justice Department Criminal Division in 2019 charged more individuals, and secured more guilty pleas, for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act than in any year since it was enacted four decades ago. This topped the previous two years, which were…
The number of fraud examiners using artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect and deter fraud is expected to triple in the next two years. It doesn’t take a supercomputer to understand why manual processes can fall short: complacency is a human trait. “When you are eyeballing transactions and trying to make judgments about any…
A Connecticut woman this week pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from her company during a three-year period to 2016 by exploiting payment and expense reimbursement processes. As much as business leaders would like to trust employees, preventing them from stealing is a big reason to have travel and expense management. Despite corporate…
You probably won’t find “auditing expense reports” on a list of tasks humans are sorry to see go to bots. Sensing an opportunity in this back end, five-year-old AppZen in early 2016 shifted from the crowded expense software market to auditing. It’s no longer selling a mobile expense app that some big corporate clients like….
A once prominent physician is due Dec. 4 at a medium-security prison in Otisville, N.Y., to serve a 366-day sentence for unlawfully obtaining more than half a million dollars in travel expense reimbursements. Dr. Jean-Francois “Jeff” Geschwind this summer admitted to multiple occasions of falsifying expense reports during an eight-year span ending in 2015, according…
[UPDATE, Oct. 25, 2017: The European Union affirmed the Privacy Shield framework following its first annual review. It announced some recommendations about how companies should communicate participation, and ways the U.S. Department of Commerce can ensure the agreement’s integrity. Recent adopters of the framework in corporate travel include ATPI, Colpitts, Radius and Travel Incorporated.] A…
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