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Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients\\u2019 money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere, and it is costly. In Fool Me Once, renowned forensic accounting expert Kelly Richmond Pope shows fraud in action, uncovering what makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous.

Shermer and Pope discuss: SBF and FTX \\u2022 Bernie Madoff \\u2022 The Tinder Swindler \\u2022 gullibility \\u2022 intentional perps, accidental perps, and righteous perps \\u2022 innocent bystanders and organizational targets \\u2022 accidental whistleblowers, noble whistleblowers, and vigilante whistleblowers \\u2022 identity theft \\u2022 IRS scams \\u2022 doping in sports \\u2022 Frank Abagnale Jr. \\u2022 Edward Snowden and Julian Assange as righteous perps \\u2022 Daniel Ellsberg as a noble whistleblower \\u2022 Phil Zimbardo and The Lucifer Effect \\u2022 how to tell if you have been a victim of financial fraud.

Kelly Richmond Pope is the Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago. Pope\\u2019s research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary, All the Queen\\u2019s Horses, which explores the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. In 2020 the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and CPA Practice Advisor named Pope as one of the twenty-five Most Powerful Women in Accounting. Her new book is Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry.