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If A Résumé Lies, Truth Can Loom Large
The New York Times - December 29, 2002
In a tight job market, where more security-conscious companies are checking backgrounds, employment experts say they worry that more people may be tempted to embellish their credentials as a means of gaining a competitive edge.
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Forensic Accountants: Sleuths Of The Financial World
Monster.com - December 2002
Well, it's no wonder that the number of forensic accountants is on the rise. If you'd like to join their ranks, here's what you can do now to prepare for this field.
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The Accounting Fraud Squads
Atlanta Business Chronicle - Atlanta; November 15, 2002
Reaction to reports involving high-profile financial malfeasance is creating new opportunities for a unique type of "numbers" professional, the forensic accountant.
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Will Forensic Accounting Go Mainstream?
Business Finance Magazine - Colorado; October 2002
CFOs should notice several key facts that Kessler's tale reveals about forensic accounting in the post-Enron era.
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Airbrushing Your Resume
CNN Money - New York; October 3, 2002
Typical resume airbrushing tactics include exaggerating job responsibilities, falsifying employment dates, or covering up the reasons for leaving a former employer.
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Women Suffer Severe Burns From OTC Pharmaceutical
ApplesForHealth.com - July 5, 2002
Kessler International, the worlds leading forensic accounting and investigative consulting firm, today announced the results of more than two years of investigation into the trafficking of black market pharmaceutical steroid creams.
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Counterfeits, Fakes, & Infringers
Smokeshop - New York; June/July 2002
The fight to keep illegal merchandise off the market is a constant battle for prominent cigar manufacturers. It remains a big Internet problem, but even traditional retailers become inadvertently, or intentionally, entangled.
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The Knockoff Squad
The New York Times - New York; June 23, 2002
Today, counterfeiting in New York goes far beyond Prada bags and Rolex watches. It can even involve sweeteners, as it did a few years ago when packets of Equal, the sugar substitute made by the Monsanto Company, began mysteriously appearing in stores around the country.
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Resumes Checked a Little More Closely
Valley News - New Hampshire; June 19, 2002
Reference-checking practices vary around the Upper Valley, but even the employers with the most stringent policies say resume fraud isn't a big problem. Before Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center hires a physician, the center verifies every previous job and every transcript from every school and training program -- and it goes directly to the schools and training programs instead of relying on copies provided by applicants, according to Bill Geraghty, the center's vice president for human resources
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Funny Money in Digital Age: Counterfeiting goes High-Tech on Campuses
Gannett News Service - New York, NY; June 3, 2002
For years, the stereotypical picture of a counterfeiter has been the one put forth by Hollywood: a recluse in a shuttered house, huddled over meticulously carved printing plates and freshly printed sheets of cash hanging from a clothesline to dry.
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Smarter Screening Takes Technology And HR Savvy
Workforce; June 1, 2002
As companies battle for talent and place a growing premium on human capital, they're looking for more advanced ways to conduct applicant tracking, recruiting, and screening.
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Fake Out
Sporting Goods Business; June 1, 2002
Every year, the pirates' season lasts 12 months. Not Pittsburgh's baseball team, but the criminals who operate counterfeiting rings and steal business from you.
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Counterfeit Terrorism
ABC News - Washington, DC; May 23, 2002
Terrorism's counterfeit connection first surfaced following the first world trade center attack, and tonight as the I-Team's Del Walters shows us, since then the counterfeit terrorism trail has grown even hotter.
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Black Market Steroid Creams Trafficked On The Internet And In African And Caribbean Beauty Supply Houses
Wall Street Research Net - New York, NY; May 15, 2002
Kessler's investigation disclosed that a few unscrupulous businessman are trafficking these pharmaceutical creams in the United States
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Just What The Doctor Ordered? - Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals
WCBS News - New York, NY; May 11, 2002
You go to the pharmacy and you trust the drug you get is exactly what the doctor ordered...But is it?
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Theft in the workplace has a chilling effect on trust among colleagues
Minnesota Public Radio - Show: Marketplace; March 14, 2002
DAVID BROWN, anchor: While modern headlines scream of billions of dollars in white-collar crime, today, we turn our attention to another issue of theft in the workplace. It's eating away at worker morale and it's having a chilling effect on trust among colleagues. MARKETPLACE's Sam Eaton reports from New York.
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Accounting's Bloodhounds In Demand
The Chicago Tribune: March 10, 2002
Forensic accountants have helped sort through the finances of terrorists and played a part in the undoing of powerful people such as hotelier Leona Helmsley and, quite possibly, F.Scott Fitzgerald's fictional Jay Gatsby, according to fraud investigator Michael G. Kessler, who once served as chief of tax investigations for New York City.
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Upgrading Security In Apartments
The New York Times; March 3, 2002
Security experts say that many co- op and condominium boards now quietly re-evaluating their buildings' security needs. "Since 9/11 we've had a tremendous increase in calls to conduct background investigations on new employees and new people moving into buildings," said Michael G. Kessler, chief executive of Kessler International, a Manhattan-based security consulting firm. "And a number of companies we deal with in the business of installing alarms and surveillance cameras have seen their business skyrocket as well."
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