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CFO, Chief FAKE Officer
A while back we hired an auditor who informed me that my Chief Financial Officer was in personal bankruptcy. The CFO denied it but I ran a background check and found out that the auditor was correct. The auditor, spooked by their original findings, still took on our account, but charged us more than double what they would have charged. We now monitor all executives' public records.

Company Car(ousing)
Senior executives at my company get company cars. One particular executive got a DWI while driving his company car and didn't report it to the company. We found out when the story hit the local newspaper. Though he assured us that he was fighting the charge and was not over the legal limit, he had, in fact, pleaded guilty and continued to drive the company car even though he had lost his license.

A Matter of Degrees
We hired an M&A lawyer who claimed he had a Bachelor's Degree from the University of South Carolina, a JD & MBA from Northwestern and was finishing up a Ph.D. at the University of Indiana. We took his word for it. After a string of events where he proved himself to be incompetent, we did a background check. Come to find out, he had attended the University of South Carolina, but never enrolled at Northwestern or Indiana and didn't have a JD or MBA.

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