In “Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry,” DePaulU professor Kelly Richmond Pope explores the many forms fraud can take and the sometimes surprising stories of the people who perpetrate it.
The book breaks perpetrators of fraud into categories — intentional, accidental and righteous — and also focuses on the types of whistleblowers who revealed instances of fraud.“I wanted to offer a new way of thinking about a perpetrator because everyone doesn’t steal for money,” Richmond Pope said. “You could be an accidental perpetrator, which you might make a mistake and find yourself in a fraud, or you could be a righteous perpetrator.
For the average person hoping to avoid becoming a victim of fraud, Richmond Pope has some simple advice. But something smelled funny to Little League coach Chris Janes. Janes lived in the neighboring town of Evergreen Park; the team he coached had lost to JRW much earlier in the series.3 When the Jackie Robinson kids won, Janes noticed that some suburban com- munities outside of the JRW boundaries had bragged about being the hometowns of some of the players. As the publicity increased, so did the number of communities claiming the kids to be from their areas.
As a parent of student-athletes, a whistleblower researcher, and a self-proclaimed vigilante , I couldn’t stop thinking about this story. But it’s real, and adults are at fault—and so is a larger culture that puts a misguided value on winning at all costs. I wrote a blog about the case on Forbes.com.8 I also talked about it with my students. I wrote on the chalkboard: “What does society think of whistleblowers versus what people think of whistleblowers?” Then I invited them to come to the board and write down the first words that came to mind .
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