go ahead, ask fraud expert gary zeune, cpa, about elliot spitzer.
not surprisingly, he has some thoughts, all of them trenchant…
- perfect example of how really smart people do really stupid stuff. so don’t ever think someone is too smart not to steal, embezzle, kickback scheme. (can anyone say: “tom coughlin, no. 2 person at wal-mart and and head of security who stole $500,000 of gift cards?”)
- did you see that the fbi wasn’t even investigating prostitution? they were looking into unusual cash transfers his bank had reported on sars (suspicious activity reports).
- powerful people sometimes don’t think the rules apply to them.
- he didn’t think he’d get caught (same reason we speed when driving).