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❤️Fave conference, #FraudFest, live now

1st panel "Teaching about Detecting Fraud"

💰Soren Aandahl, Founder, Blue Orca Capital says he tells students "don't become a short seller."

💰Jim Chanos, President & Founder, Kynikos Associates

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cc @FrankPartnoy

"Fraud is going to cross your career at some point," said Chanos. A former student of his detected fraud within her Fortune 500 company when a division was reporting up numbers that did not seem right.

🤑"The Emerging German Dividend Tax Scandal."

Richard Collier, Associate Fellow, Said Business School

Christoph Spengel, Professor, University of Mannheim

Philip Stafford, Editor, FT Trading Room

Rupert Younger, Director, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

"Corporate fraud is a target rich environment" for journalists said David Barstow, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists
Emily Flitter, Reporter, The New York Times

Bethany McLean, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair, who broke the Enron fraud story

Fascinating discussion of a fraud investigation centered on the former King of Spain

Doreen Carvajal, Journalist and Author

Ana Romero Galán, Journalist and Author

Liz Young, Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford

More #FraudFest

John Gapper, Associate Editor and Columnist, Financial Times

Andrew Left, Founder and Executive Editor, Citron Research

Omeed Malik, Founder and CEO, Farvahar Partners

Next up is @mdc author of the Bond King at #FraudFest

Adam Badawi, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Mary Childs, Co-Host, NPR’s Planet Money

Post-lunch panel, "Detecting and Prosecuting Tax Fraud"

Jesse Eisinger, Senior Editor, ProPublica

Victor Fleischer, Professor, University of California, Irvine

Kari Larson, Senior Litigation Counsel, Department of Justice

Current panel at #FraudFest, "Using Forensic Analytics to Detect Fraud"

Kris Bennatti, CEO, Bedrock AI

Hane L. Kim, Chief of the Retail Strategy Task Force (RSTF), SEC’s Division of Enforcement

Daniel Taylor, Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

"The Art World" at #FraudFest

Ann Freedman, FreedmanArt (formerly the director of the Knoedler Gallery)

Diana Henriques, Author, A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

Frank Partnoy, Professor, Univ. of California, Berkeley

And there's a new podcast about that Art fraud

news.artnet.com/art-world/alec…

"Fraud Detection under Federal vs. State Law" panel at #FraudFest

J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Jed Rakoff, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Usha Rodrigues, Professor, University of Georgia School of Law