BEg2 chapter 2 - the ACFE

[Michael Bailey]

CFE - there really is a certified fraud examiner cert.
https://www.acfe.com/become-cfe-qualifications.aspx

Noting their logo on most of their pages as Maxine described it, with the
torch and the book.
The purport is obviously “a torch illuminating the account book” with an
implied threat, what with the flame so close to the paper. But, who’s
holding the torch? And why so close? How can they turn the pages with that
torch there?

(A logo is a hash of a picture?)

As an outcast, naturally she practices detournement on the image.

“Alarmingly, what Maxine noticed for the first time was the Association
seal, which showed a torch burning violently in front of and slightly above
an opened book. What’s this? any minute the pages of this book, maybe
allegorically The Law, are about to be set on fire by this burning torch,
possibly the Light of Truth? Is somebody trying to say something, the Law
in flames here, the terrible inflexible price of Truth . . . That’s it!
Secret anarchist code messages!
  “Interesting thought, Maxine,” Reg trying to talk her down. “So you filed
the appeal?”” (Page 32)

So she applies the hashtag #paranoiatrigger to the logo…or is it the
hashtag #logomeaningintheorganizationshewouldreallyratherbelongto ?

(Compare earlier on page 32 illuminating her actual philosophy:

“Enough of the review committee saw conflict of interest, not only once but
a pattern, where for Maxine it was, still is for that matter, a no-brainer
of a choice between friendship and super-picky guideline adherence.
  “Friendship?” Reg is puzzled. “You didn’t even like him.”
      “A technical term.””)





The Eighth Circle club “over on Park” - I think this is an invention, ACFE
hq is in Austin.

Eight Circle of Hell per Dante was for fraudsters.