The Investigation Of Rita Crundwell

The case of Rita Crundwell revolves around a town, other employees, and an auditor 's blind trust in a women, who clearly did not deserve the trust. Crundwell was the town Comptroller. The fraud resulted in 53 million dollars to be siphoned from the town 's funds in a time frame of 20 years. Crundwell covered her tracks with a fake bank account, fake invoices, and the party line of blaming the state for simply being behind on payments. There were many red flags during the two decades of this scheme, but due to the town 's small size and trusting attitude, they relied heavily on external audits, which were not up to par.

The body of this paper will examine the case of Pamela Foddrill and compare what happened in that real criminal investigation to the theory of criminal investigation discussed in our course textbook, Criminal Investigation: The Art and the Science. I will first examine the forensics evidence and

The investigative details of the Pamela Foddrill case remained very similar to criminal theory in most ways, but not all. In Lyman’s Criminal Investigations, there are eight steps detailed

2) Frank A. Tassone; the former business manager, Pamela Gluckin; and an accounting clerk, Debra Rigano, who is a niece of Ms. Gluckin embezzled money in a scheme in which Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin and nine of their family members and friends charged $5.9 million for personal items and cash advances on 74 personal credit cards. Then Ms. Gluckin and Dr. Tassone used district checks to pay those bills. The audit found that Dr. Tassone and

The first step in the process is to identify and define the problem at hand. During this step, all the information is gathered and looked over. This allows for the problem to be clearly identified and hopefully making the whole process easier. Step two of the process is to begin generating possible solutions. In this step, managers can begin formulating one or several potential solutions (Lombardi, Schermerhorn, & Kramer). Before going onto step three, some additional information may be required, because step three is when a plan of action is chosen. In the fourth step, the chosen plan is implemented. It is the responsibility of the manager to make sure this portion goes smoothly. Everyone on the team should know exactly what they should be doing. The final step in the process is to review the results. In reviewing the outcome of the action plan that has been chosen, you may find things that need to be altered and you may find things that are going perfectly. At this point the appropriate changes should be made.

In the preliminary investigation report there is a sequence of event that happen in the report. It starts with Henderson Fire Department responding to a residential fire. Upon arriving they make entry trough the main door which is secure at the time. As they start to combat the fire the firefighter notice several thing out of place. While making their way to the master bedroom they notice newspaper leading towards the room, along with the smell of fuel. Once they reach the master bedroom they notice an individual laying on the bed dead and burned without recognition. Later once Detective Rita Hayes starts her preliminary investigation they realize that a Honda Pilot is missing from the premises. She also stablishes that the neighbor’s rear license plate is missing to their Honda CRV.

On April 12, 2017, Detective Alvanerga contacted the alleged suspect Mr. Daniel Chavez on his cellular phone 202-422-7750. Detective Alvanerga explained to Mr. Chavez about the pending investigation regarding his 11 year old niece Karina Chavez-Ulloa. Mr. Chavez stated that he's out of town and unavailable to meet up with the undersigned detective. Mr. Chavez stated that he is coming back home on April 14. 2017, and agreed to meet up with the undersigned detective by approximately 1400 hours.

Obtained, reviewed and analyzed records from SEC database on Eddie Antar, Sam E, Antar, Crazy Eddie

This shows a major breakdown in managerial controls that a low level employee was able to take steal money over the course of a couple of years without ever being suspected. This is a prime example of why internal controls are so vital and why even the government needs to be audited. Ruiz

Crandall the supplies she needed for her school and resorted to having them shipped in

There is a problem that has been presented to Board of Directors that poses a danger to overall well being of the organization. The issue is one that could cause temporary as well as permanent damage to the relationship of the department and the community. The corruption is that which is believed to be taking place in the Oakland County Sheriffs department. The concern that Anderson has provided seems substantial and is something I felt the urge to share. Anderson is a hard working taxpayer, so he has an obligation to report misuse of funds, seeing that his hardworking money is potentially misused by the leaders.

Principal Wright interviewed Mrs. Concerned and received a statement in regards how she gained knowledge of a school-based field trip and information regarding fundraising procedures on an online social networking site. Secondly, Principal Wright worked closely with Human Resource Manager, to ensure personnel policies were adequately followed. Thirdly, Principal Wright took a leading role in communicating with the community on the alleged scam surrounding the “proposed field

On the onset of her fraud, investigation is important to properly coordinate how the investigation will unfold. Discretion upon everyone involved is most important right from the start. This is to make sure that individuals committing the fraud are not made aware that an investigation is taking place. The reason this is so important is that they continue to operate thinking everything is still going undetected. As a team is assembled to conduct the investigation, each member must be aware of the importance of operating in a stealth manner at all times. If at all possible, a public announcement should not be made, as it will only help the individuals perpetrating the fraud to potentially destroy evidence that can be used against them at a future date.

Albert Miano was the trust facilities supervisor for nearly 15 years when his fraudulent activities were finally detected. It is estimated that he embezzled somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million dollars from a magazine publisher over the course of his employment with a simple false billing scheme (Wells, 2014, pp. 106-107). “What measures could have been taken to prevent the fraud committed by Albert Miano or detect it earlier?” (class question)

Planning stage – A background investigation would be done on the IT Infrastructure, and would be sent from a manager to the audit team. The team would get acquainted with the structure of the business in regards to information technology. That would be the number of servers used in the business. The number of desktop computers in use, what is being used on these computers, the software the network runs on, antivirus in use, and what routing firewalls are being used in the business. The business needs an audit for these primary reasons.