Fraud and Tax Crimes: Do You Really Have to Worry?

Chapter 10 from this book provides a good précis for a plan sponsor who may have cheated other plan participants out of millions of dollars of what to expect.

The IRS looks closely at the case’s publicity value – locally or nationwide. A prominent local doctor or movie star is a juicy plum. The agency firmly believes that front-page headlines make would-be tax cheaters think twice. (page 335)

More excerpts:

Trial and Error

Subititled The Educaiton of a Courtroom Lawyer, John C. Tucker was a Chicago trial lawyer in the last century who, in retirement, wrote about a few of his cases while offering insights into the job.

Work Retire Repeat

Teresa Ghilarducci has been a Cassandra for the decline of Defined Benefit Plans and her new book advocates for government expanding Social Security through Guarnateed Retirement Accounts since the private sector is not doing the job of providing secure benefits for older workers. However statistics and anecdotes do not drive home that sad tale as much as the experience of small plan acturies (like me) in designing retirement plans.

Furious George

George Karl going on about his forty years surviving NBA divas (Carmelo Antohony, Kenyon Martin, and J. R. Smith) , clueless GMs (Wally Walker), and cancer.

On Learning to Heal

The book is subtitled “What Medicine Doesn’t Know” and these are excerpts from the Crohn’s chapter.

Vulture Culture

A 2008 book prophesizing a ‘coming collapse of the insurance industry’ that never materialized but Eric D. Gerst, Esq. observations reflect my experiences.

The Curious Person’s Guide to Fighting Fake News

Though the book fails to account for the dearth of coverage of the most impactful issues of our day (how insurance companies control healthcare, how plaintiff’s lawyers control the legal system, and how anyone with money and the inclination controls governments) it does offer some insight into why we get the dreck that passes for news.

The Unimportance of Being Oscar

Oscan Levant’s last book provides insight into his personality through stories of his acquaintances in the various arts and, near the end, reminding us that cancel culture has always been with us.

A Pocketful of Happiness

A candid memoir of the last year of your wife’s life interspersed with film career highlights.

Unfu*k Yourself

Several books with that title, some with the ‘*’ in different places but the sage advice underpinning this one is the notion to “get out of your head and into your life.”