A crook named Kusok; more holes than a Swiss cheese; anti-social media; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The leader of an agency overseeing stimulus programs said that Treasury officials had resisted his attempts to investigate fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program.

John Hanson, managing director of BDO's Forensic Investigation and Litigation Services practice, discusses the tell-tale signs to look out for in businesses during the pandemic.

Suppose there was an embezzlement at a large client? What would you wish you had done to stop it?

Founded on fraud; what’s in a name?; taken for granted; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Bernard Madoff’s death in prison doesn’t change much for his victims, many of whom are still waiting to be made whole.

The Manhattan investment adviser defrauded his A-list clients of more than $19 billion in history’s largest Ponzi scheme.

The COVID-19 pandemic could give remote employees around-the-clock access to company funds with little supervision and lead to embezzlement.

A donor has asked the IRS to open a fraud investigation into a nonprofit that builds schools in Africa, and for Canada’s federal police to seize its records.

A U.S. donor to Canada’s WE Charity said he has asked the Internal Revenue Service to open a fraud investigation into the organization after testifying that it took down a plaque on a Kenya school built to honor his dead son and replaced it with that of another donor.

Data-driven processes can help auditors focus on high-risk issues for further analysis and investigation.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Small Business Administration to fix some problems that businesses are encountering when applying for loans from the Paycheck Protection Program.

One major difference between past audits and those of today are they are now being almost completely performed in a remote environment.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is pledging to improve the loan review process, even as it pursues a record number of fraud complaints.

The work-from-home phenomenon has triggered a fresh frustration for U.S. corporations: Americans are blowing the whistle on their employers like never before.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been launching enforcement actions against various types of financial fraud schemes, with improper revenue recognition seen as the most common type of fraud, according to a new analysis.

Fraud is continuing to increase this year, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Major providers will offer an option for MFA, and the IRS strongly encourages users to take advantage of this added security measure.

The IRS is working with tax professionals to warn the public about coronavirus scams.

The single-family house on Forestview Avenue in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, shows no signs of farming activity. The only things growing on the one-eighth-acre plot are trees, shrubs and grass.