The McCuistion TV episode can be viewed by following this link: Full Episode The award–winning McCuistion Television Program, now in its 26th year on KERA, PBS TV, and The National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization with a goal of developing and promoting private, free-market alternatives to government regulation and… [Read More]
My Few Minutes of Fame – A PBS Miniseries on Business Ethics
There’s a new documentary in the works in which I had the opportunity to participate just last week. The three part series, tentatively titled Gray Areas, is in production by WNET, which is the flagship public station of the New York City tri-state area, WNET, the most watched public television channel in the country. I was… [Read More]
Chicken Little was right – “the sky IS falling”!
Remember Chicken Little and her warning, the sky is falling? I sometimes feel like a Chicken Little, with my repeated warnings that the sky is indeed falling and here’s another example. Just last week I posted about my fellow Bank Whistlebowers United colleague Michael Winston’s interview with Gretchen Morgenson on the New York Times Facebook venue. I’m still… [Read More]
Michael Winston, “Wall Street’s Greatest Enemy,” tells all
Whistleblowers come in all shapes and sizes and my friend and fellow Bank Whistleblowers United colleague is certainly not one that fits most descriptions of a whistleblower. I’d mentioned Michael before in two fairly recent posts (see here and here). Former Countrywide Financial executive Michael G. Winston, PhD, was at the pinnacle of establishment success. He’d… [Read More]
“Take On Wall Street” – a Bold Agenda to Control the Large Banks!
A new group, Take On Wall Street, has emerged which vows it won’t rest until it breaks up the big banks and stops the stranglehold Wall Street has on Congress and the American taxpayer! Take On Wall Street may have enough backing behind it do so. Twenty national organizations joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass)… [Read More]
Did the Federal Appeals Court Just Open Up the Floodgates to Fraud??
In a recent 3-0 ruling that has left many shocked and scratching their heads, a federal appeals court has reversed a $1.27 billion jury verdict against Bank of America (BofA). The federal jury took only three hours in 2013 to find BofA guilty of civil fraud for deliberately selling defective mortgages through their Countrywide unit… [Read More]
My New York Times Interview on Facebook Live… the new technology
Update on 5/20/2016: The following article talks about technical problems with the broadcast. Today, the New York Times posted a version without technical problems. You can see it here: https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/10150812143494999/ The executive producer of the New York Times for Facebook Live said “one of the highest levels of engagement yet in both comments and emoticons.”… [Read More]
The Financial Crisis Initiative
This week, three of the Bank Whistleblowers United founders, joined me in Dallas, to be on the McCuistion Television program specifically addressing our BWU initiative, what really caused the financial crisis and what must be done now to prevent another. The TV taping went very well and I’ll be sharing the program itself with you in… [Read More]
The DOJ Lemon Award – Go Directly to Jail!
William K. Black, a professor of Economics and Law, UMKC, a former financial regulator and author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is To Own One, and one of our Bank Whistleblowers United (BWU) co-founders has decided we could “retire” our series of BWU Lemon Awards and permanently award “a Lemon” award to… [Read More]
Silence is Deadly. Lessons Learned.
The audience was primarily internal auditors at my presentation this week at the 11th Annual Fraud Summit, held at the University of Texas at Dallas, where I teach, sponsored by the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and Information Systems Audit and Control Association. I talked about fraud and how as… [Read More]
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