Fraud Friday — Bank COO Gets 8 Years for Hiding Loan Losses

September 4, 2015 By Bob Coleman Editor, Fraud Friday Fraud Friday — Bank COO Gets 8 Years for Hiding Loan Losses On Wednesday, the former Chief Operating Officer of San Francisco-based United Commercial Bank, Ebrahim Shabudin was sentenced to 97 months in prison. He was found guilty on seven counts of bank fraud after a…

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Fraud Friday — Manipulative Borrower gets 18 Months for $736,000 Bank Fraud

August 21, 2015 By Bob Coleman Editor, Fraud Friday “Grady Fricks used his connection with a bank insider to obtain a fraudulently inflated loan. Fricks’ ability to manipulate people to further his scheme left the bank and its stockholders shouldering the loss,” says the US Attorney. Who did he manipulate? D.N, a Senior Vice President…

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Fraud Friday — The Three Warning Signs of Bank Fraud

July 31, 2015 By Bob Coleman Editor, Fraud Friday Fraud Friday — The Three Warning Signs of Bank Fraud Christmas has come early for you fraud junkies. SIGTARP has issued her 584 page quarterly status report to Congress. Some like to binge Netflix’s releases — some, like me, love to binge read this fraud stuff.…

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Fraud Friday — Bank of Oswego’s First Guilty Plea

July 24, 2015 By Bob Coleman Editor, Fraud Friday Following last month’s arrest of the former CEO and CFO of Bank of Oswego, the chief BDO and rainmaker of the bank pled guilty Wednesday for his role in cooking the books for the regulators. During the recession, the Portland, Oregon suburban bank was an outlier.…

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Fraud Friday — SIGTARP Files False Claims Act Clawback from the Grave

July 17, 2015 By Bob Coleman Editor, Fraud Friday In the same week former Attorney General Eric Holder told the Financial Times that record fines on banks were a better solution than “trying to make examples out of people,” TARP’s Special Inspector General continues to indict community bankers from failed institutions from the Great Recession.…

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Fraud Friday — Small Business Lenders must be Consultants While Lending

June 26, 2015 By Bob Coleman Editor, fraud Friday A true story. A fellow publisher friend of mine who is successful in another publishing niche — advising college administrators how to handle microaggressions and sexual assault issues, changed his payroll processing company from ADP to a start-up payroll company in his hometown. They promised the…

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