More evidence on Lance Armstrong

Sports Illustrated published a column today that discusses how the information that Floyd Landis recently provided about how riders get awa...

Supreme Court gives challengers of the PCAOB an empty victory

The WSJ and other news outlets are reporting that the U.S. Supreme court ruled that the PCAOB is unconstitutional. From what I can tell, t...

Strategic Fraud

Fraudsters go to great lengths to structure their fraud around regulators, auditors, and other interested parties to avoid detection.  Such ...

Ethics Optional

What good is a public code of ethics ending in a provision saying: From time to time, the firm may waive certain provisions of this Code. S...

Davis, California's CG

If you ever go to Davis, California, beware of "The Crying Girl" (aka The CG) who will tearfully plead for $37 or so for a train t...

The career path of a convicted fraudster: Jack Abramoff

The NY Times reported this week that former lobbyist, con man, and convicted fraudster, Jack Abramoff , completed 3.5 years of prison and i...

Skilling and the Supreme Court

The WSJ just reported that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that at least part of Skilling's conviction in the Enron fraud case needs a...

More doping among amateur cyclists.

The Giro d'Italia (aka the Tour of Italy) is one of the biggest stage races in pro cycling along with the Tour de France and a few other...

A free lunch without a catch...

I'm a firm believer that there are no free lunches in this world. However, here's one that may be an exception to that rule. The Uta...

The legal implications of Floyd Landis' accusations against Lance Armstrong

Sports Illustrated has a good article written by a law professor that outlines the legal implications of Floyd Landis' accusations again...

More on the cycling mafia

After posting yesterday about Tyler Hamilton's comments about a pro-cycling mafia, a friend emailed me the following comments that I t...

A pro-cycling mafia?

About 20 months ago, VeloNews posted an interview with Tyler Hamilton . Tyler was found to have doped and was suspended and then tried to re...

More on the Lance Armstrong fraud investigation

I read an interesting analysis of who, in pro cycling, is likely to talk to Jeffrey Novitzky as he investigates the doping/fraud allegation...

The latest commentary on Landis and Lance

Dick Pound, former Olympic swimmer, is known best as the Inspector Clouseau in the professional cycling community. Pound was appointed to ru...

Fraud alert: LifeLock is a joke! (A bad one too...)

Have you ever seen the ads for LifeLock ? They are the company that posted the social security number of its CEO, Todd Davis, on a truck and...

Motorized doping: What will fraudster-cyclists think of next?!

Just as in financial fraud, cheaters in sports are constantly innovating and finding new ways to beat the system. In baseball, they not only...