William K. Black
William K. Black | |
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| Born | William Kurt Black September 6, 1951 Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of California, Irvine |
William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud.