Best Practices

You’ve been told about the importance of social networks ad nauseum, but between casework, your personal life and actual in-person networking, finding the time to tend to these profiles can be demanding. However, any asset recovery^* and financial crime professional trying to build a name in the field – even if your position precludes you from being prominent – should know the basics.

Forensic accounting has been around for decades, but only in the last 10 years have people become aware of the profession on a wide scale. In this article, originally appearing in the Wisconsin Law Journal, IAAR expert speaker Tracy L. Coenen gives her best practices to tracing frauds. Download now...

The sensational Central Florida case in which a young mother, Casey Anthony, is accused of killing her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, is transfixing the world with bulletins not seen since the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995. Anthony faces the death penalty if the six-person jury in Clearwater convicts her of the first-degree murder of which she is charged.

A pair of US politicians are battling over the recent NOAA forfeiture funds scandal, and the agency's access to these funds hangs in the balance. Senator Scott Brown's "Asset Forfeiture^* Responsibility Act of 2011" seeks to remove regulation and forfeiture authority from the embattled agency, while Senator John Kerry's  "Fisheries Fee Fairness Act of 2011" proposes to deal with the specific harms done by federal fisheries law enforcement.

The United States announced Thursday that it would try to release some of the more than $30 billion in assets seized from Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to help Libyans in rebel-controlled areas, as dozens of officials met here to bolster a NATO-led military intervention that to critics appears stalled. New York Times, Thursday, May 5, 2011