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	Barry Minkow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barry Minkow (born March 17, 1967) was an American teenage entrepreneur who managed to present the front of a successful businessman for years.
		While in prison Barry earned a B.A. degree and a Masters of Arts degree in Church Ministries (with an emphasis on Theology and Apologetics) from Liberty University.
		Minkow also is an executive at the Fraud Discovery Institute in San Diego.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Barry_Minkow (551 words)

	Barry Minkow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minkow decided to ignore these allegations, and short-sellers including the Feshbach Brothers, took positions betting that the stock would fall.
		Minkow bribed a security guard to give him access to a newly constructed building in Sacramento, California, so that he could present it to his auditors as a wreck that Zzzz Best had recently finished restoring.
		Minkow pays up to 30 per cent of his $68,500 (USD) yearly salary each month to the bank, and lives in a modest Imperial Beach, California stucco house so as to continue to be able to
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barry_Minkow (1235 words)

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		Minkow had been involved in uncovering some 13 cases totaling millions of dollars which law enforcement had no knowledge of prior to his involvement.
		Minkow is the Co Founder of the Fraud Discovery Institute in San Diego, California and the Fraud Discovery Institute is a fully licensed private investigative agency in the state of California (License #24817).
		Barry is married to Lisa and has twin sons, Robert Irwin Minkow and Dylan Gene Minkow who were adopted at birth from Guatemala and are now 3 years old.
	www.frauddiscovery.net /barrybio.html (617 words)

	Barry Minkow: Cleaning up, reaching out - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Minkow, who at 20 was the youngest person ever to take a company public, was also ordered to pay back $26 million dollars to investors after building a multimillion-dollar company mostly on fraud and deceit.
		MINKOW -- You're right -- to tell the average investor that the way to catch fraud is sources and uses of cash, that doesn't go over too well, because they don't know what sources and uses of cash are.
		MINKOW -- Insurance companies say that 3 percent of public companies are going to be committing material fraud and their goal is to avoid that 3 percent.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20050120-060553-3483r.htm (2517 words)

	Accounting--South Western College Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Barry Minkow himself later said that he was a "fraudster" who convincingly deceived almost everyone involved with the company.
		Minkow's house of cards finally came crashing down as it became apparent to banks, suppliers, investors, and the auditors that the increasing difficulty ZZZZ Best was having with paying its bills was entirely inconsistent with a company reporting so much revenue and profit.
		Barry Minkow was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary in Colorado.
	www.swcollege.com /vircomm/stice_survey/sts/sts04.html (727 words)

	CareerJournal \| Insights Reap Redemption For a White-Collar Criminal
		Minkow has provided "great stuff on what looks and smells like it's a pyramid scheme, my problem is that Barry has baggage and you have to disclose who he is" to superiors before pursuing any investigation.
		Minkow's efforts at rooting out potential fraud are highlighted in court papers the SEC filed earlier this year in a Washington federal court in a continuing case with Edward R. Showalter, a California businessman.
		Minkow called the SEC's enforcement division in Washington, D.C., which prosecuted him 15 years ago, and said, "This is Barry Minkow." The agency, he says, "was a bit taken aback in hearing from me." Nevertheless, the SEC asked him to send the evidence he had gathered.
	www.careerjournal.com /myc/survive/20030909-opdyke.html?myc_whatsnew (1108 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| 'I was a teenage fraudster'
		Minkow wanted desperately to be popular at school, to find a girlfriend; his twin strategy involved taking steroids to boost his muscles and starting his own business.
		Minkow had bumped into a Mafioso on a carpet-cleaning job months previously, and by this point one of his biggest institutional investors was the Genovese crime family of New York.
		Minkow has been paying back his victims - mostly institutional investors - at a rate of around 95 cents to the dollar ever since he got out of jail, first under the terms of his probation and now, he says, because his religion requires him to.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,752982,00.html (1984 words)

	Barry Minkow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Barry Minkow (born 1967) is an Americann teenage entrepreneur who managed to present a front of a successful businessman for years.
		Eleven ZZZZ Best insiders were convicted of fraud alongside Minkow, who got 25 years.
		Minkow served only 89 months and is, as of this writing, in a new lecture and TV show circuit explaining how religion has changed his life.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/b/ba/barry_minkow.html (481 words)

	Christian Executive Officers - Past Meetings
		Barry talked about three causes of his fall and he theorizes that these are universal truths.
		Barry learned in high school that he was popular, had respect, and influence if he bought people things.
		Barry shared a story about carpet cleaning where he sold the additional service of "scotch guarding" to a customer, but used water instead of real scotch guard.
	www.christianexecutiveofficers.com /meetings/2003-10-BarryMinkow-IntegrityInAGullibleWorld.htm (719 words)

	Barry Minkow: Cleaning Up : One Man's Redemptive Journey Through the Seductive World of Corporate Crime - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Barry Minkow is not a hero in the traditional sense, but he has redeemed himself from what seemed like an impossible fall and huge lapses in judgment.
		Barry Minkow had all of these, and through undergoing the crucible of a 7+ year prison experience, he learned who he really was and what he needed to do to change.
		On the other hand, while Barry was on the extreme, I think his story will ring true to everyone as we all share some of his character flaws to some degree or another.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/1595550046\|\|2 (869 words)

	ACFE Article: Irrational Ratios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Two hours earlier, I had recorded the story of the legendary Barry Minkow, the "boy wonder" who, in the mid-1980s, had conned his investors and auditors in a $100 million financial-statement fraud scheme.
		Minkow had started a carpet-cleaning business in his parent's garage when he was only 13.
		Minkow's early frauds had escalated to the point where, to keep from being discovered, he had to get outside financing.
	www.cfenet.com /Resources/Articles/ViewArticle.asp?ArticleID=20 (1868 words)

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		Barry Minkow nailed the 55-year-old New Zealand conman in a classic FBI sting operation, posing as an investor with $2 million to risk in Turner's get-rich-quick hedge fund.
		But, according to Mr Minkow, the plausible villain was cash-starved to the point where he was desperate to lay hands on the $2 million he (Minkow) pretended to hold as a potential investment.
		Mr Minkow had two meetings with Turner - one over dinner at the New Zealander's home, when promises of a 38 per cent return were made in an attempt to lure the pastor into his scheme.
	www.frauddiscovery.net /turner.html (1168 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Minkow borrowed money from the mob, cooked the books for accountants, and lied to investors about tens of millions of dollars in insurance contracts to restore buildings damaged by fire and water.
		Minkow earned master's degrees in religion and divinity, and is now preaching to 1,400 parishioners at his community Bible church in San Diego.
		Minkow is much less interested in prosecuting frauds than he is exposing them while they’re still going on.
	uttm.com /stories/2005/05/19/60minutes/printable696669.shtml (1984 words)

	Former huckster goes digital
		Minkow, now 35, has lost none of the warp-speed energy that made him such a persuasive pitchman back when people thought he was a legitimate businessman.
		Minkow brought in the auditor and gave him a tour of the premises.
		But when I pointed out to Minkow that his online lessons would only make it easier for would-be crooks to commit fraud, or to at least cover their tracks, he told me I was wrong.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/15/BU181478.DTL&type=printable (823 words)

	Barry Minkow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Minkow raised money by his accounts receivable for work under contract.
		This received widespread attention when the story was picked up by the Los Angeles Times, and spurred FBI investigation of Minkow's link to the Genovese crime family.
		He is married to his wife Lisa, and they live with two adopted Guatemalan children and three dogs in their southwest San Diego County home.
	www.imperialbeach.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Barry_Minkow (1108 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- It takes a thief to know one, Minkow says
		Minkow, as many Southern Californians remember, was the entrepreneurial wunderkind who by age 20 had built a carpet-cleaning company called ZZZZ Best into a $240 million business.
		Minkow is like a scene-chewing thespian, his stocky figure pacing the pink-carpeted stage as more than 100 parishioners watch quietly from their chairs.
		Though Minkow may be a master of marketing, he readily admits he was not the astute businessman he fashioned himself to be during his youth.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20020526-9999_1n26minkow.html (1472 words)

	KYC News Inc. - Community Message Board: Detail
		Minkow went to prison for seven-and-a-half years for swindling people who invested millions in his ZZZZ Best Carpet Cleaning Company in the late '80s.
		Minkow investigated the Berrys with the knowledge of the FBI through his company, the Fraud Discovery Institute.
		Minkow went to jail when it all fell apart and it was there, he says, when he had an epiphany that put him on his current path.
	www.offshorebusiness.com /message_board_detail.asp?id=15568&page=1 (691 words)

	Barry Minkow: From Con to Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Barry Minkow says the answer rests in understanding the psychology of fraud, a concept that’s all too familiar to him.
		Barry was raised in a poor Jewish home, where money was at the root of every family argument.
		Barry’s breakthrough finally came when he admitted his deceit and asked for the supernatural help he knew he needed.
	www.cbn.com /700club/features/amazing/barry_minkow061405.asp (1008 words)

	CareerJournal.com Article
		Minkow is trying do -- though it isn't easy.Tim France, a U.S. postal inspector in San Diego, says that while Mr.Minkow has provided "great stuff on what looks and smells like it's apyramid scheme, my problem is that Barry has baggage and you have todisclose who he is" to superiors before pursuing any investigation.
		Minkow's efforts at rooting out potential fraud are highlighted incourt papers the SEC filed earlier this year in a Washington federal courtin a continuing case with Edward R. Showalter, a California businessman.The SEC in 1998 accused Mr.
		Minkow called the SEC's enforcement division in Washington, D.C.,which prosecuted him 15 years ago, and said, "This is Barry Minkow." Theagency, he says, "was a bit taken aback in hearing from me." Nevertheless,the SEC asked him to send the evidence he had gathered.
	www.taonline.com /WSJArticles/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=128 (1001 words)

	USNews.com: Update: Barry Minkow reveals secrets of faking revenue
		When former federal prosecutor James Asperger first laid eyes on Barry Minkow in a California courtroom in 1988, he saw all the traits of a financial kingpin in the musclebound "whiz kid" of Wall Street.
		Minkow was a white-collar crook extraordinaire, a greedy college-age swindler with an eye for the ladies and the loot.
		Minkow served nearly eight years and, armed with two master's degrees in religion, now serves as pastor of Community Bible Church, a nondenominational evangelical Christian congregation in San Diego.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/biztech/articles/040510/10eewhere.htm (477 words)

	Barry Minkow - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
		He was on Oprah twice, and remains to this day the youngest chairman and CEO of a publicly traded company in the history of Wall Street.
		Today, a consultant and trainer to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, Barry has co-founded the Fraud Discovery Institute (FDI), a company that uses ex-cons alongside seasoned auditors to prevent and detect white collar fraud at the highest levels.
		An accomplished author and speaker, Barry also travels the country speaking to executives and investors alike about the dangers of corporate fraud and the techniques criminals use to deceive victims.
	www.leadingauthorities.com /23750/Barry_Minkow.htm (362 words)

	Second Act for Valley's Notorious Whiz Kids(LA CA-Mitnick-Minkow)
		Minkow, a fiery, born-again preacher in San Diego, has co-founded a company that fights corporate fraud and claims to have helped uncover $1 billion in white-collar scams.
		How Minkow and Mitnick slid from blithe adolescence into household synonyms for trespassing and fraud began in the San Fernando Valley of the heady 1980s, the "decade of greed." Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
		In January 1988, Minkow was convicted of 57 counts of fraud and sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1102547/posts (2600 words)

	Sheep and Goats \| www.sdreader.com
		Minkow, who was the youngest person ever to take a company public at 20 years old, was convicted of fraud in 1987.
		Minkow was hired as senior pastor of Community Bible Church in 1997.
		Pastor Minkow mentioned several people by name in his message, he put his hand on people's shoulders as he preached, and he invited a woman to stand and recite John 3:16 and kissed her on the cheek when she finished.
	www.sdreader.com /published/2005-08-04/sheep.html (928 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		BEFORE PRISON, Barry Minkow was a cocky 16-year old from the Los Angeles Valley who ran a carpet-cleaning business from his parents’ garage.
		At 21, the charade was up, and Minkow was sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary for defrauding investors.
		One evening Minkow was working undercover on a large fraud case, knowing he had to get to the hospital later to pray with a congregant about to undergo surgery.
	www.sandiego-online.com /issues/june05/profile0605.asp (411 words)

	Barry Minkow to speak at the Rialto Center
		Barry Minkow to speak at the Rialto Center
		"Minkow is the poster child for this kind of activity," he said.
		Minkow founded ZZZZ Best Carpet Cleaning Company in Los Angeles at age 16 and grew it into a business worth $240 million - on paper, anyway.
	robinson.gsu.edu /news/02/minkow_event.html (276 words)

	Fraud :: Ex-con pastor's 'contentment' tracking scams
		Minkow said he was stealing from relatives, including his grandmother, to support the scam and also managed to keep ZZZZ Best going by borrowing money from organized crime figures in Queens at extortionate rates of 250 percent a year.
		In the interview and in two recent autobiographies, "Cleaning Up" and "Clean Sweep," Minkow said he was raised as a Jew but became a born-again Christian through the inspiration of a Christian counselor before he entered prison, and then through a cellmate.
		Minkow said he got involved in the Long Island case when a lawyer for his San Diego business, the Fraud Defense Institute, told him about a client who had been solicited by Turner's fund.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /11064/Ex-con-pastor--s---contentment---tracking-scams (896 words)

	Success in Failure - Christianity Today Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Minkow and Long were cellmates in the federal prison in Englewood, Colorado, nicknamed "Gladiator School." Long, who bench-pressed 450 pounds, was called Peanut.
		Minkow tells story after story about Peanut's discipling, but it was one day on the football field that changed the way Minkow lived his faith.
		Minkow says she gave him no warning and refused to return after his repeated attempts to ask her back.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2005/001/13.28.html (1485 words)

	Former US Con Man Now Educates Public, Law Enforcement About Fraudulent Practices - 2004-02-07
		Minkow is in demand as an investigator and speaker.
		Minkow is also working on behalf of insurance firms, that may be liable for losses caused by corporate fraud.
		Minkow, it started to come apart when investigators noted his links to the Genovese mafia family, which had helped him with loans to build his business empire.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-02/a-2004-02-07-27-Former.cfm (868 words)

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