Sheriff Mike Williams of Jacksonville, Florida, announced Tuesday the results of a multi-agency, undercover investigation into the exchange of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for cash and, in at least one case, cocaine. Questions: 1. From 2012 to 2017, how many food stamp transactions were fraudulent in Jacksonville and what was the dollar amount?… Read more »
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Target hit by credit-card breach
On December 19, 2013, Target admitted that it was hit by an extensive theft of its customers’ credit-card and debit-card data over the Black Friday weekend. The theft was national in scope and happened in stores, not online. Questions: 1. When and what happened with respect to a card breach at T.J. Maxx and Marshalls… Read more »
Could Additional Internal Controls Have Prevented this Heist?
It was March 18, 1990, when a pair of thieves disguised as Boston policemen, entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 masterpiece valued at $500 million. Twenty-three years later the FBI says that they know who did it. They are releasing a few details and offering a $5 million reward for information leading… Read more »