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Non-Profits Often Easy Embezzlement Targets

April 7, 2010

Non-profit organizations are typically understaffed, without a lot of management oversight, and operate in an environment of trust. These conditions can make them easy victims of embezzlement and financial fraud.

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Deeper Questions about the Koss Embezzlement Case

March 29, 2010

Inevitably, the Koss embezzlement case is raising significant questions about the corporate governance and financial auditing that did or didn’t happen here.

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More on the Koss Embezzlement Case

March 22, 2010

The Journal-Sentinel provides lots of fascinating insight into how the Koss embezzlement case happened.

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Defendant Fighting Embezzlment Accusation

March 3, 2010

Embezzlement charges, like any criminal offense, can be fought and beaten in court. There is a reason why being charged and arrested for a crime like embezzlement is not the same thing as being guilty! If it were, there would be no need for courts and trials. Police would arrest people and send them immediately [...]

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Washington Non-Profit Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

March 3, 2010

As is typical with embezzlement charges, when a person admits to guilt in the case, they often state that they never intended to steal or do anything wrong, they just got in a situation that appeared to get out of control. That’s exactly what happened in a Washington state case, where a man plead guilty [...]

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Updates on Koss Embezzlement Case

February 17, 2010

The biggest corporate embezzlement case of 2009 is being investigated by the SEC. Koss Corp., was alleged to have been taken for somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 million by an executive employee, in what seems to be years of reckless and brazen corporate theft.

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Federal Embezzlement Charges in California Union Case

February 11, 2010

A Barstow, CA man faces federal charges of embezzlement of union funds, making false statements and mail fraud, for allegedly embezzling funds from the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union.

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Koss Shares Plunge on Still Unfolding Embezzlement Losses

January 12, 2010

A small company with multi-million dollar losses as a result of executive embezzlement finds itself in significant financial jeopardy. Koss, an audio equipment and headphone manufacturer resumed trading of it’s stock on the NASDAQ only to see it’s share price immediately drop 24%.

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Biggest Corporate Theft of 2009

January 6, 2010

Here is a very interesting story about the biggest corporate embezzlement case of 2009. A vice president at Koss, an audio equipment manufacturer allegedly stole $20 million from the company over a 4 year period.

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