BEg2 chapter 2 - the ACFE

[Mark Kohut]

A wonderful, character quality of Maxine's, I say, and important in this
world of fraud and 'guideline adherence".

"To live outside the law you must be honest"---Dylan, the Nobelist.

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.””)

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 3:05 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.””)
>
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> 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.
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