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SUMMARY: The Three Million Dollar Ribbon
DESCRIPTION: Two conmen used lies & falsified documents to convince the State of Tennessee to give them a $3\,000\,000 economic development grant to create 1\,000 jobs by purchasing & rehabilitating a vacant factory in rural Tennessee. Instead\, they spent most of the money on an extravagant lifestyle & invested over $1M in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) out of over $30\,000\,000 pursuant to a contract to provide the tarps for areas such as Puerto Rico\, affected by hurricanes. This session provides a detailed case study of how the investigators accumulated\, organized & analyzed hundreds of documents\, identified the falsifications & misrepresentations\, conducted multiple interviews & ultimately convicted the conmen. This case study provides multiple takeaways for detecting & investigating grant fraud\, which is especially relevant in light of the numerous federal stimulus programs in recent years\n 
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