41. The Red Collar Crime League White-collar crime is financially motivated and almost always non-violent. Nobody gets hurt. At least not physically. However, sometimes white-collar criminals like Alex Murdaugh, Nancy Siegel, and Christopher Porco resort to violence to prevent someone from discovering their fraud. So what started as fraud…becomes murder. And that’s when it becomes a red-collar crime. In episode 41, I speak with Frank Perri.
Frank Perri coined the term “Red Collar Crime” and has spent 20 years studying fraud offenders who resort to violence. He worked for 30 years as a criminal trial attorney and is also a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. He travels nationally, lecturing on red-collar offenders and predatory fraud offenders. Frank taught graduate courses in forensic accounting at DePaul University in Chicago. He received a law degree from the University of Illinois, an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, and a bachelor’s from Union College. His books and articles include:
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