Fraud Fighter Podcast
Hosted by a former white-collar federal criminal investigator, this bi-weekly podcast seeks to find the best tools, practices, opportunities, and people to answer your questions about fraud and forensic accounting. Every episode is a conversation with an expert in the fraud or forensic accounting industry who has a story to tell, ideas and wisdom to share, successes to inspire, and failures to confess. Where can you find the right credentials for your career? Where can you find the right training for you and where you want to be? What opportunities exist in the anti-fraud industry? What software or technology is available to help you in your career? If you are asking these questions, this podcast is for you.
Fraud Fighter Podcast
032 - Crop Insurance Fraud - Don Doles and Josh Howard
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Robert Nordlander, CPA, CFE
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Episode 32
Don Doles is a former USDA-OIG special agent and Josh Howard is former federal prosecutor. Along with other federal agents, Dole investigated a multi-million crop insurance fraud scheme in eastern NC with over 60 defendants. Howard was the federal prosecutor on the investigation before he left to become a defense attorney with Gammon, Howard & Zeszotarski.
https://www.ghz-law.com/attorneys/josh-howard
In this episode, we discuss:
- How crop insurance fraud is committed
- How a multi million dollar fraud scheme was uncovered in Eastern NC
- The difficulties of prosecuting crop insurance fraud
- And how the crop insurance market is supposed to function.