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Book Description

Financial crimes and scandals constantly victimize sophisticated companies, investors, executives, and business deal-makers. Whether you’re planning a major investment, a corporate acquisition, or merger, you can’t afford to have it happen to you. In Digging for Disclosure, the leaders of a world-class corporate investigations firm show you exactly how to protect yourself from financial fraud.

Kenneth Springer and Joelle Scott draw on decades of experience as investigators working for top clients. They present dozens of stunning stories of real-world financial malfeasance, as well as powerful lessons and techniques for recognizing the signals of fraud, and successfully exposing it. You’ll discover little-known databases for uncovering what corporate criminals don’t want you to know—and how to go beyond the Internet to find crucial information that only exists offline. Springer and Scott show how to “think like a swindler”… track down fraud both before and after a transaction… gather crucial competitive intelligence… find hidden assets such as co-op real estate… uncover foreign criminal convictions… understand a potential borrower’s true financial situation… perform background checks on corporations… even investigate the potential involvement of organized crime.

You can’t afford not to know who you’re dealing with. Digging for Disclosure will help you make sure you do—always.

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Praise for Digging for Disclosure
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. About the Authors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Just When You Think You Know Someone
  9. 2. A Swindler State of Mind
  10. 3. We Call That a Clue
  11. 4. The Gray Area: Somewhere Between Fraud and Fudging
  12. 5. Sometimes, You Just Gotta Ask
  13. 6. Crossing Borders: International Investigations
  14. 7. Digging for Disclosure
  15. 8. The Competitive Edge
  16. 9. Never Too Late: When Problems Arise Post-Investment
  17. 10. Tracking Down a Threat
  18. 11. Now That Is Criminal
  19. 12. Dial ‘F’ for Fraud: The Benefits of an Ethics Hotline
  20. 13. This One Goes Out to the Attorneys
  21. 14. The Godfather in the Boardroom
  22. 15. Show Me the Money: Asset Investigations
  23. 16. Investigating the Inc.
  24. 17. You, the Referee
  25. 18. The Secret Sauce
  26. 19. Testing, Testing
  27. Resource Guide
  28. Index
  29. Financial Times Press
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