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Church Embezzlement Orange County

Interim Treasurer Fiatala Manu of the First Samoan Christian Congregational Church in Santa Ana has recently been charged with the embezzlement of upwards of $110,000. It is alleged that Manu wrote checks to himself from church bank accounts to feed a gambling addiction. He was called on the carpet about it when an [...]

By O&S LLP|2021-03-09T21:13:02-08:00August 26th, 2013|charity fraud, white collar crime, church embezzlement, falsifying records, internal control, money laundering, non-profit fraud, nonprofit, Embezzlement, church fraud, nonprofit fraud|Comments Off

Stealing Our Foreign Aid

A Wall Street Journal Article points out that billions of dollars ... in cash ... is being air-freighted out of Kabul. Corruption is suggested. Pardon me? Billions in cash and corruption is suspected? They can't track the money? I suggest that the government hires a squad of forensic CPA's to uncover the fraudsters. We'll work [...]

By Kim Onisko CPA|2018-07-09T13:53:03-07:00June 29th, 2010|false claims act, money laundering, non-profit, non-profit fraud, Forensic Accounting, audit, due diligence, fraud, internal control systems|Comments Off