The final insertion to any John Cooke Fraud Report copy is always the editorial. It’s written almost on the way to the …
From the Editor
November 25, 2013
Catch as catch can. If you’ve tried to reach me during the day in early summer and we didn’t connect, keep on …
August 1, 2013
Nineteen years is a long time. Good old John Cooke is now old enough to go to war (in a way, he …
May 1, 2013
(From long time friend Bob, an SIU-er from Minnesota and a really smart guy. Shared in JCFR with permission of the writer.) …
January 24, 2013
If the US were to send thousands of troops to Kosovo, but failed to equip them with the latest in weaponry and …
January 14, 2013
Stuff Happens. This issue was all sewed up and ready to print, mere hours from our press appointment, and a request was …
January 5, 2013
The year was 1974. A large midwestern MGA, operating under retro authority as a full insurance company, ran into financial problems due …
January 5, 2013
“Daddy, there’s smoke coming out of the garage door…” And so began the saga of how the Editor of an insurance fraud …
January 5, 2013
R1#6%6*%@@MB&K!6*64$2S The preceding is a picture of my brain as I write this issue’s Editor column. This column is always the last …
January 5, 2013
Some things just don’t make much sense. On February 1, 1997, a young family of three was burned alive in a fiery …
January 5, 2013
If you look at the upper right hand corner of this issue’s cover, you’ll see it’s Volume 5 and Issue 1. That …
January 5, 2013
Comedian Allan Ray told a “joke.” He said, “Allstate recently sued 45 doctors, alleging fraud. The physicians are accused of stealing funds …
December 31, 2012
Early in the 90’s, back in my corporate America days, some home office AVP decided that our company needed a “community presence.” …
December 31, 2012
It’s a bittersweet victory when I suddenly become cognizant of a great truth that’s been right in front of my nose. On …
December 31, 2012
I remember the scam well. Everyone was talking about it. “Did you hear about the guy who programmed the bank’s computer to …
December 31, 2012
The story reads like so many others throughout the USA: authorities extensively investigated a suspicious situation. It began with an automobile body …
December 31, 2012
Some readers have recently been surprised to hear our telephones answered “Alikim Media.” A few have even hung up, thinking they reached …
December 31, 2012
John Cooke, the little scrap(per) who came rushing headlong into the insurance fraud fighting world in May 1994, is celebrating his second …
December 31, 2012
I sit at a large, brown, wooden desk with a large gouge in one of the drawers. The desk cost $40.00 and …
December 31, 2012
A special thanks to those of you who choose to go both ways: Both ways that is when it comes to subscribing …
December 30, 2012
It’s a bittersweet victory when I suddenly become cognizant of a great truth that’s been right in front of my nose. On …
December 30, 2012
This issue marks the end of our third full year of publishing The John Cooke Insurance Fraud Report. To those of you …
December 30, 2012
Life—and business—is all about learning. And we in the fraud-fighting industry are privy to a never-ending flow of lessons. I have a …
December 30, 2012
Alikim Media began publication of The John Cooke Financial Fraud Report in August 1996. Similar in format to The John Cooke Insurance …
December 29, 2012
The bottom line was still the same, chiropractors paying for referrals, but the overall scam had a slightly different look on a …
December 28, 2012
t’s already 1996 and (mea culpa!) we are late, late, late. The reason? I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the …
December 28, 2012
1995…only days away as we go to press with our January/February issue – and already here as you read these pages. This …
December 28, 2012
This is a 32-page paper. That’s how we started and that’s what the business plan called for. Just a simple, little, 32-page …
December 28, 2012
Contrary to the informational biography we printed in our January/February issue, Paul Conway is not a Western States Supervisor with Fireman’s Fund. …
December 28, 2012
We swear this story is true. Only the names have been changed. Amanda Sue twiddled her thumbs and wished a hasty end …
December 28, 2012
The issue in front of you is number seven. John Cooke is now one year old. We’ve experienced many exciting things this …
December 28, 2012
September, the time of year the most often asked phrase in America becomes, “Tell me what you learned today (insert name here).” …
December 28, 2012
In the wee hours of the night, while putting together the usual 48 pages of this issue of The John Cooke Fraud …