Leave No Stone Unturned Summary

The first article, “Leave No Stone Unturned” written by Eric Lee talks about him being a certified fraud examiner. He talks about how little pieces of info can lead up to solving crimes and a key procedure on how to go about doing it. An example that he gives in his article is a Ponzi scheme. He mentions that the suspects would place advertisements in the newspapers all around the country promising high returns on their investments. He mentions that the fraud was very simple and reasonable. He said that for $1,500 dollars, an investor can purchase an ATM machine that would be placed in a casino restaurant or other retail stores and that the investor could make 2 to 3 dollars on each and every transaction made. He mentions also that the company would maintain all of the machines they purchased as stated in their agreement. The scheme itself worked like
I thought both investigators presented very in depth steps on how they accomplished their cases and how these beliefs they followed help to solve the majority of their cases. I was rather shocked by how much information an investigator can get access to whether it is from social media sites to accessing public records. It should make one think twice before committing any wrong act as somehow they will be able to find what you did. In both of those cases, they thought they were getting away with the perfect crime, but they failed to recognize that everything they did was widely available to the investigators. It only took enough time and resources to figure it out. I’m glad that they were able to catch the suspects. Lastly, I enjoyed both articles and it was very interesting as to how both of them concluded and how the examiners knowledge and expertise placed a vital role in getting the fraudsters with the help of some open resources and other