There are disturbing issues going on at the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s Office, the office which serves as the Intelligence Community central watchdog. Created in 2010, its job is to investigate waste, fraud, abuse and illegalities within the 16 agencies it monitors; communicate with, reach out to and give an additional layer of protection to… [Read More]
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Preparing Students for an Ethical Future – University of Nebraska Gets it Right
From SEACEN in Malaysia to The University of Nebraska (UN) in the space of two weeks. Continents apart, yet a similar message…business ethics pay off! From central bank executives to business students, my message to each emphasized the importance of doing the right thing and the key essentials individuals and businesses must follow to ensure… [Read More]
What an Honor to Present to SEACEN in Kuala Lumpur!
I recently spoke in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at a high-level conference on financial stability and supervision attended by top executives from the central banks of nineteen countries. The conference was sponsored by The South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre, based in Kuala Lumpur. SEACEN was established as a legal entity in… [Read More]
Wells Fargo: The Poster Child of Greed & Fraud
Wells Fargo has now become a never ending story of greed and fraud as the charges against them continue and even more charges come to light. It now looks as if they have uncovered an additional 1.4 million fake bank and credit card accounts for a total of up to 3.5 million accounts from their… [Read More]
Is The Press Deliberately Lying? And, If So, Why?
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been featured/quoted in several publications, Wall Street on Parade, the NY Times Dealbook and the New York Post, as have several other whistleblowers, Eric Ben-Artzi, Alayne Fleishmann and Gary Aguirre, among others. In sifting through these articles and others, I am seeing a pattern develop which deeply troubles me… [Read More]
Wells Fargo, Fried Again!
Well, it looks as if Wells Fargo, the self-proclaimed “community-based financial services company” is once again on the hot seat.The bank had been forcing unneeded collision insurance on customers who financed their car purchases through the bank. That practice, first disclosed by The New York Times, affected 800,000 customers according to an analysis commissioned by the bank. The bank… [Read More]
Did We Learn Anything From the 2008 Financial Crisis?
Last year, fellow Bank Whistleblowers United colleague, Michael Winston, the Countrywide Whistleblower, and I, along with C.R. “Rusty” Cloutier, MidSouth Bankcorp. Inc, Founding President and CEO, and Rashad Abdel –Khalik, PhD. Professor of International Accounting at the University of Illinois, joined Dennis McCuistion; the host of the McCuistion Program for an insightful look at “What… [Read More]
My New York Times Interview on Facebook Live…
The New York Times interviewed Richard Bowen for the inaugural episode of their Facebook LIVE Whistleblowers series.
Is the Fed Really Interested In Protecting Consumers or Is It just Lip Service?
Eric Ben Artzi … is a former risk officer at Deutsche Bank. Mr. Ben-Artzi was one of three former Deutsche Bank employees turned whistleblowers who in 2010-2011 notified regulators of improper accounting at Deutsche. What was discovered resulted in a five-year investigation and a $55 million settlement between Deutsche Bank and the SEC. While Mr. Ben-Artzi was… [Read More]
Barclays Bank Gets Its Hands Slapped… and What Does That Change!!!??
Is getting its hands slapped a strong enough message? The latest in the bad bank sagas has the British bank, Barclays, red-faced. As it should. CEO Jes Staley has been reprimanded for attempting to discover the identity of an internal company whistleblower. Mr. Staley stated that he was trying to protect a colleague from what… [Read More]
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