210: Victor Hartman – Fraudster Mindset, Three Types of Fraud
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Victor E. Hartman served the FBI for 25 years with most of his time overseeing complex white-collar crime cases. He reflects on the mindset of the white-collar crime defendant. and takes us through the three types of fraud – misappropriation of assets, corruption, and financial statement fraud. Hartman makes the distinction of a predatory fraudster versus situational fraudster by comparing the Enron and WorldCom cases. Hartman played a leadership role in the early phases of both investigations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 210 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm a Retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does |
| 0:18.0 | through my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews |
| 0:22.0 | with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to |
| 0:26.4 | retired agent Victor Hartman who served in the FBI for 25 years, with most of his time overseeing complex white collar crime cases. |
| 0:38.8 | In this episode, Hartman reflects on the mindset of the white-collar crime defendant. |
| 0:45.0 | He takes us through the three types of fraud, |
| 0:49.0 | misappropriation of assets, corruption, and financial statement fraud. |
| 0:54.2 | He makes the distinction of a predatory fraudster versus situational fraudster by comparing |
| 1:00.0 | the Enron and WorldCom cases, Hartman played a leadership role in the early phases of both of these investigations. |
| 1:09.0 | During his career, Vic Hartman was assigned to the Houston and Atlanta divisions. |
| 1:15.0 | Hartman is both an attorney and a certified public accountant. |
| 1:19.0 | As a street agent, Vic Hartman started his career working savings and loan fraud and later |
| 1:26.3 | health care fraud. |
| 1:28.0 | As a supervisory special agent, he oversaw a public corruption squad, bank fraud squad, and a health care fraud squad. |
| 1:36.0 | He also served on the FBI's corporate fraud response team. |
| 1:41.0 | Before his retirement, Hartman served as the Chief Division Council of the |
| 1:46.2 | Atlanta Division. Vic Hartman is currently the principal of the Hartman |
| 1:51.8 | Firm LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 1:55.6 | The firm specializes in internal investigations, forensic accounting, and fraud mitigation |
| 2:02.3 | consulting. He is also the author of the book The |
| 2:06.6 | Honest Truth about Fraud. Hartman uses his book as a textbook at two universities where he is an adjunct professor. |
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