{"id":27940,"date":"2012-03-14T05:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T09:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27940"},"modified":"2012-03-14T05:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T09:24:05","slug":"investigating-financial-crime-a-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2012\/investigating-financial-crime-a-retrospective.html","title":{"rendered":"Investigating Financial Crime &#8211; A Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI &#8211;\u00a0Charles Bonaparte was clearly onto something.<\/p>\n<p>When he created a \u201cspecial agent force\u201d in 1908\u2014the forerunner of the FBI\u2014the progressive attorney general made sure that a dozen of his first 34 investigators were bank examiners specializing in financial crimes. No doubt to the satisfaction of the muckrakers of the day and his own trust-busting boss, President Teddy Roosevelt.<\/p>\n<p>These experienced financial agents hit the ground running, investigating antitrust activities (now part of our public corruption program) in the meat processing and sardine canning industries. They also tackled a variety of financial frauds\u2014from bankruptcy scams to accounting frauds in federal prisons and courts. The Bureau was also responsible for investigating several national banking law violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/2012\/march\/financial-crime_031312\/financial-crime_031312?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=fbi-top-stories&amp;utm_content=78968\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI &#8211;\u00a0Charles Bonaparte was clearly onto something. When he created a \u201cspecial agent force\u201d in 1908\u2014the forerunner of the FBI\u2014the progressive attorney general made sure that a dozen of his first 34 investigators were bank examiners specializing in financial crimes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27942,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27940\/revisions\/27942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}