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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
Time: 11:34 am
Time: 11:34 am
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2 results foundAuthor: Pattison, Deborah Title: Safeguarding Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse: Whistleblower Protections and Tips Hotlines in Special-Purpose and Local Governments Summary: Savvy and opportunistic fraudsters increasingly target smaller governmental organizations. Insufficient transparency and disjointed accountability over controls nurture the hidden nature of occupational fraud and allow wrongdoing to escalate during decades of routine operations. Criminal sentencings confirm local government and education officials misusing their positions and placing their own interests above those of their communities. Both primary case studies - a municipal crime in the City of Dixon, Illinois and corruption inside Roslyn, New York's Union Free School District - illustrate how embezzling more than $65 million remained undetected over thirty years until tip disclosure. The extension of unmerited trust created insufficient segregation of duties among employees and low monitoring left public resources vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. The project holds ternary importance for risk management since one-third of small entities experience fraud, traditional external auditing identifies fraud in less than five percent of instances, and receiving anonymous tips through reporting hotlines improves detection by up to 20% and reduces losses (ACFE, 2016). The project examined stakeholder speak-up strategies including whistleblower protections and tips hotline (WP&TH) initiatives to understand how organizational context, willful blindness, information access, and citizen engagement affect local government’s focus on fraud detection and remediation. Case studies show WP&TH initiatives to be financially and operationally superior in identifying risk and promoting transparency in small local governments. Third-party, 24/7 call centers and anonymous, two-way dialog web/text are underutilized tools for recognizing fraud precursors and stopping them before they aggregate, escalate, or become institutional norm. Details: New York, NY: Utica College, 2017. 134p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 11, 2019 at: https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1985001622.html?FMT=ABS Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1985001622.html?FMT=AI Shelf Number: 154134 Keywords: Abuse of AuthorityAccountabilityCorruptionEmbezzlementFraudRisk ManagementTips HotlineWasteWhistleblower |
Author: Kramer, Kelly Title: Brazil's "Operation Car Wash": The Latest Chapter Summary: "Operation Car Wash," the investigation into the largest corruption scandal in Brazilian history, continues to unfold and expand. Reaching far beyond Petrobras, the probe is dramatically impacting Brazil's politics, economy and the manner in which Brazilian authorities investigate criminal allegations. Please join us as we discuss: Latest developments in the investigation and an overview of its key events and facts Its political implications, including the impeachment proceeding against President Dilma Rousseff Legislative proposals spurred by Operation Car Wash, including tentative changes to the plea bargaining system, whistleblower program, abuse of authority and the "10 actions against corruption" New tactics being adopted by the federal police and prosecutors - Latest developments of the Petrobras case in the United States. Details: S.L.: Mayer Brown and Tauil & Chequer Advogados, 2016. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 22, 2019 at: https://www.mayerbrown.com/-/media/files/perspectives-events/events/2016/09/brazils-operation-car-wash-the-latest-chapter/files/view-slides/fileattachment/160920-chi-webinar-anti-corruption-car-wash-slides.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Brazil URL: https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/events/2016/09/brazils-operation-car-wash-the-latest-chapter Shelf Number: 155982 Keywords: Abuse of Authority Brazil Corruption Operation Car Wash Petrobras Whistleblower |