♣ Guisti was able to commit the fraud because he was a trusted 14-year employee, previous internal auditor, and manager of a Greater Providence Deposit and Trust. He was authorized to make consumer loans up to a certain dollar limit, starting at $10,000 and increasing to $15,000 and then $25,000, without loan committee approvals. He used this authority to create 67 fraudulent 90-day notes requiring no collateral or the applicant’s credit history report which should have been purchased from an independent credit rating firm. As the scheme progressed, he was able to bypass the loan committee approval as some of his loans exceed his loan limit.
♣ Guisti was able to conceal the scheme by making the 67 loans out in five names. The names included
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♣ Opportunities: Guisti was the manager of a North Providence branch office, a trusted 14-year employee who had once worked as one of the bank’s internal auditors. He had the ability and knowledge of the internal controls and how to manipulate them. Along with manipulating the internal controls, he also had the ability to manipulate his coworkers, Fraioli and Perfectto.
♣ One way Greater Providence Deposit & Trust could improve their control procedures over the disbursement of loan funds to minimize the risk of this type of fraud is to set up a training program or handbook that discusses this issue. The training program or handbook would discuss the proper control procedures such as depositing loan funds in a checking account in the borrower’s name or writing a check to the borrower. This way, Guisti would have had to present a photo identification when cashing the checks or withdrawing money from the
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♣ One way Greater Providence Deposit & Trust may improve their its loan review procedures at bank headquarters to minimize its fraud risk is to acquire a computer services arrangement at the headquarters, not at a neighboring bank or a bank out-of-state. This system should notify bank officials if a loan has been granted without a credit report or above the lending officer’s lending limit. These loans should then be examined by the internal auditors for fraud and unless there was prior approval to grant these loans; the lending officers should face consequences.
♣ There are pros and cons to rotating the assignments of loan review clerks. A pro would be that a loan review clerk and a lending officer couldn’t collude and create a fraud. But, a con in this case is that the rotation of review clerks made follow-up on questionable loans more
Debra became the assistant vice-president and manager of energy lending of a Canadian Western Bank on January 31, 2006. Within a month Debra set up her embezzlement scam by creating two corporations that the embezzled funds would be funnelled too. Debra set up an account in a woman’s name using the woman’s GIC (guaranteed investment certificate) which was worth 8 million dollars. Debra started with 100,000 dollars in a line of credit using the woman’s name and increased it 6 times until the line of credit reached $950,0000 on November 6, 2007. Additionally, Debra arranged for 5 new accounts in the same woman’s name with a total deposit of $16.4 million. Debra made 72 unauthorized withdrawals from the fake account in the two year time frame of the scam. She kept the scam going by transferring money from the
Another cash larceny scheme that could have been committed was reversing transactions or revering entries. By stealing funds, Sachdeva and Mulvaney could have gone back into...
The United States Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Predatory Lending. Retrieved October 31, 2011. http://www.justice.gov/usao/pae/Documents/predatorylending.htm
In recent years, it seems as if there is a new financial fraud being reported any given day. One could even say that fraud has become almost a much a surety as taxes. Given the opportunities and pressures, many will businesses will fall victim to human natures and suffer losses through fraudulent activities. This case study will follow one such fraud, following the crimes of Terry Scott Welch in his pursuit for happiness by indulging his passion of landscaping.
After the time of financial crisis, JP Morgan was not the only national bank in US which got involved in trade of toxic loans related to mortgage. Before JP Morgan, it was Goldman Sachs-another large US Bank that faced the allegation of manipulating the trades in its own self interes, ended up in favor of SEC while GoldMan Sachs were asked to pay $500 Million during late 2011 in a deal called Abascus 2007-AC1 where the bank were alleged to mislead its investors on a deal related to Collateral Debt Obligation(CDO). (Eaglesham, 2011) The ab...
...l. If a transaction is missing or the cash on hand is not adding up management should be notified.
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This case was very interesting and I am really glad I chose it for my paper. Its amazing to me how one man with the right connections and social standing can get away with so much for so long. Nobody ever suspected him because he was the father of the NASDAQ, he couldn’t scam people for billions of dollars. And not just any random people, Mad off targeted his own people, the Jews and groups affiliated with him. He was very picky and pretended like he didn’t want to let anyone in on what he was doing which in turn made more people want to get involved and give him even more money, that’s just human
Madura, Jeff. What Every Investor Needs to Know About Accounting Fraud. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. 1-156
According to Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, Mr. Tourre played a role of piercing the bonds together and then touted them to the investors. And before the housing market had collapsed...
In August of 2017, Wells Fargo disclosed that its fake accounts scandal affected up to 3.5 million customers in total, far more than the previous accounts that were also opened without customer’s knowledge. If it weren’t for the third party review, this scandal would not have come in anyone’s attention. Moreover, the bank has admitted that it erroneously charged over 800,000 customers for car loan insurance that they no longer needed. To stop the matter from getting worse, the bank insisted on firing 5,300 employees to show that the bank does care and will do everything in its power to sort the situation.
Legal responsibilities at Wells Fargo include a wide variety of issues. They can be from protecting customer’s rights to securing company policy. Customers trust Wells Fargo with private and privileged information. Therefore, the bank must main...
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