During an interrogation about his wife's murder, Fred Scharkner appeared to be lying and ultimately confessed to ordering and paying for the crime.
A man named Fred Schachter provides information to an officer about a check he wrote to Frank that was cashed on October 29th for $25,000.
A Pastor named Doug Porter was accused of taking more than $13,000 from a church member's retirement fund without his consent. The victim had given him power of attorney, which allowed him to set up fraudulent accounts and extract cash from them.
Mental accounting is the concept of categorizing money and assigning it a specific use in our minds. A study found that offering $200 in gas money was more effective in incentivizing subjects than offering $500 in cash.
The speaker talks about how he was asked to help a troubled acquaintance and decided to take on the role of a concerned uncle who wants to find out what is going on with the person in need.