Accenture Cuts Tiger

The Cheater Says: Really? Accenture? Formerly Arthur Andersen, the company that gave Enron accounting advice, then audited Enron's accounting, then recommended that Enron hire Arthur Andersen as accounting and auditing consultants?
That Accenture?
The same one that changed its name...

Not content to wait for "This Week In Cheating," a single newspaper page held enough cheating for a whole seven days. Business page B3 of the New York Times on Wednesday, October 21 held these four, and only these four, stories:

"State Street Bank Accused of Fraud by...

Bank of America's Ken Lewis Gets A $53 Million Retirement Payment

The Cheater Says:
Guess his pension is just made up of all his employees and investors pensions.

After all, what's a pension? A system wherein the employee gives the boss money for "safekeeping."...

The drug industry is closely watching a trial in NYC - the first of about 900 state & federal cases - over the side effects from Merck's Fosamax. Merck, you may recall, also produced Vioxx, which garnered a $4.5 billion-ish settlement for about 200 court cases. Despite the...

David Ortiz & Manny Ramirez 'roid it up.

New Jersey corrupts.

Michael Phelps loses to cheaters and whines.

Banks may have - shock - fraudulently profited during financial crisis.

Credit cards companies get rich coming and going.

Bernie...

The Boosh Are Coming! The Boosh Are Coming!

The latest British talent invasion picked up pace last week as cult sensation The Mighty Boosh buzzed through New York on their way to Comic-Con. The group's show has been a worldwide hit on stage and on the BBC, and...

Some Great Cheating this past week... in case you missed it.

Binge & Cheat
"Ex-executive accuses insurance giant of 'purging' customers"
The Cheater Says: Well, duh. How else are they supposed to exploit people and make billions? Geesh. I suppose you think health care "reform" will...

For running a massive Ponzi scheme, Bernie Madoff got 150 years in prison, though he told investors it was 175 years... and they each told two investors it was 190 years... and so on and so on and so on...

Are we sure he's really going to prison? The man...

The House passed a bill regulating tobacco. I've been warning against this for years. Sure, there'll be some good done... but imagine the long-term consequences...

If we all quit smoking...
We'd all gain weight...
That would shift power to the potato chip lobby...
Then we'd...

Doesn't it seem like everyone's cheating? Why fight it any longer? Let's either join the cheating ranks (hey, they can't catch us all, right?) or at least sit back and enjoy their antics.

Here are just a few items from this week alone, with a little commentary from The...

In these difficult times, there's only one proven path to ridiculous amounts of money: Cheating. Everyone's doing it--from sleazy CEOs to 'roided-up home run kings, silicone-enhanced starlets, and backroom-dealing congressmen--so why not you? Get Rich Cheating is your definitive guide to the illegal, immoral, and fun, detailing the schemes that...

Wow. Lotta cheating this week...

Pensions: Nature's Little Piggybank.
- "Carlyle to pay $20 million to end pension probe"
- "Inquiry Focuses on Ex-Pension Official for Bush"
- "Pension Inquiry Reveals Power Broker's Web"
The Cheater Says: The pension system was a...

5 working days, 5 working cheats...

MONDAY: Those look like a cheat-cup
Miss California's Breast Implants Paid for by the Miss USA Pageant.

The Cheater Says: Teamwork!
She cheats by faking her body, (ala steroids), in order to do better and make more money; and
...

Jeff Kreisler's first book, "Get Rich Cheating," is available for pre-order from Harper Collins.

MONDAY: The House that Cheat Built. Do you like baseball?

The Cheater Says: Build a $1.5-ish billion taxpayer-funded stadium, charge those same taxpayers $2600 to see a game (plu$ "food"), don't create the promised park...

According to Cynopsis, Ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich may end up starring in NBC's summer reality series I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here if a federal judge allows him to travel to Costa Rica from where the show will originate.

The Cheater Says: Straight outta...

The Cheater Says: Today is tax day, but, as Leona Helmsley wisely noted, "Only the little people pay taxes."

So, aspiring cheats, lie on your returns. Create fake expenses. Hide money in Delaware and Bermuda and "Special Purpose Entities." Hire KPMG.

If folks as diverse as Willie Nelson and...

The Times reports that 25 Hedge Fund managers made $11.6 billion in '08.

Get Rich Cheating Says: Run a hedge fund!
Not a reserve of cash to pay your gardener, hedge funds are big green bales of cash separating the lawns of prosperity from...

This Week In Cheating finds lessons in A-Rod's confession:

Jeff Kreisler's first book, "Get Rich Cheating," will be available from Harper Collins this spring.


"Just...

Jeff Kreisler's "The Week In Cheating" looks at what went wrong in Rod Blagojevich's impeachment defense...

Jeff Kreisler's first book, Get Rich Cheating, will be released...

72,000 people lost their job this week. What does a voice of the unemployed have to say about it?

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