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Another proud day to be residing in my home state of Connecticut.  In yesterday’s article “Gambling Takes A Toll” in the Journal Inquirer, writer Keith Phaneuf reviews a study relating to gambling as our Governer Rell and lawmakers debate the idea of allowing more gambling in the form of Keno within our state.  With regards to embezzlement, he writes that state and federal authorities made 43 arrests in 1992, and 214 in 2007, a 400% increase.  No other state with more than 40 embezzlements in 1992 reported as high an increase in these crimes.  The national increase was 38%, so we beat the national average as well. (more…)

Sorry for the break in my postings.  Writing books, re-writing my class at UConn, and having our web site and blog completely redesigned has distracted me from maintaining the blog posts.  The good news – I am back, and there has been plenty happening relating to fraud and financial malfeasance.  The bad news (for victims of these types of crimes), there has been plenty happening…  (more…)