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hollywoodreporter.com | 11/7/08

Tiffani Thiessen has been tapped to co-star on USA Network's pilot "White Collar."   The show from Fox TV Studios, centers on Neal (Matthew Bomer), a brilliant con artist who partners against his will with Peter (Tim DeKay), the head of the FBI's white-collar crime unit.  Thiessen will play Debbie, Peter's intelligent and supportive wife who works as an accountant.  "Beverly Hills, 90210" alumna Thiessen most recently co-starred on ABC's "What About Brian."

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prnewswire.com | 11/10/08 | $1 Billion | U.S. Justice Department

The United States secured $1.34 billion in settlements and judgments in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, pursuing allegations of fraud against the federal government, the Justice Department announced today. This brings total recoveries since 1986, when Congress substantially strengthened the civil False Claims Act, to more than $21 billion.

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newswire.com | 11/6/08 | University of Alabama at Birmingham

The business of financial fraud at the corporate level historically spikes as those in desperate need of money manipulate company revenues and assets for personal gain, and the trend is the key reason why a career in forensic accounting and information technology (IT) auditing is not only recession-proof but recession-flourishing, according to Tommie Singleton, Ph.D., associate professor of Accounting at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

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nytimes.com | 10/18/08

With the onset of the country's current economic crisis and meltdown of financial institutions, the FBI is struggling to find to find enough agents and resources.  The main cause is the reallocation of agents from white collar crime activity to national security roles after the Sept. 11 attacks, shifting more than 1,800 agents, or nearly one-third of all agents in criminal programs, to terrorism and intelligence duties.

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webcpa.com | 9/26/08 | Staff Writer

The demand for CPAs who provide forensic accounting services has accelerated in the past year, according to a survey by the American Institute of CPAs.

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fbi.gov | 9/25/08 | Press Release

French national Bernard Jean Ternus was sentenced today. Ternus had previously pled guilty to conspiring to transport in interstate and foreign commerce four stolen paintings knowing that they were stolen, and also to visa fraud.  The conspiracy charge stems from the August 5, 2007 armed robbery at the Musee des Beaux-Arts, also known as the Museum of Fine Arts, located in Nice, France. The armed robbers stole the following four original paintings: “Cliffs Near Dieppe,” by Claude Monet; “The Lane of Poplars at Moret,” by Alfred Sisley; “Allegory of Water” and “Allegory of Earth,” both by Jan Breughel the Elder.

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cfo.com | 8/6/08 | Stephen Taub

The CFO who became the first person to win protection under Sarbanes-Oxley's whistle-blower provision suffered yet another setback in his rocky battle to win back his job.  A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate David Welch as chief financial officer of Cardinal Bankshares Corp., ruling that he failed to prove his employer broke federal law.

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Investors.com | 6/09/06 | Sonja Carberry

Business leaders know how to read people — and be read positively. Gain an edge by paying attention to these subtle cues:

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