24 / matters magazine / summer 2019 F or the past 10 years, Maple- wood resident Pete Newman has been working on bring- ing a card game to market. Relying on a Kickstarter campaign, he set out this past March to raise the needed funds. He had 30 days to do it. Called Fraud – The Game of White-Collar Crime, the topic is one that comes easily to Newman. With a job in compliance in the bond market for a financial technology company, he has witnessed plenty of bad guys in action. He says, “In some ways, be- cause I’ve been focused on compliance laws and regulations, the complete disregard for all of that has always been really funny to me and [is] why I’m satirizing it.” And that he does. Based loosely on Mille Bornes, a French card game listed in the GAMES Magazine Hall of Fame, the object of Fraud is to assume the identity of a crooked CEO and bank $150 million in your offshore account before going to prison for fraud, all while fending off attacks and indict- ments. Described as an attacking-style card game for two to six players or teams of two, it’s easy to learn and combines strategy, luck and wicked satire. CEO cards carry clever names such as Menace Scuzzlousy, Shady Sherry Kovich and Spike Bilkem. Other cards explore various aspects of white-collar crime that are routinely found in the news but are hilarious in play, like “Flee the Country” and “Bribery and Extor- tion.” Newman drafted Rick Parker, an internationally-known cartoonist and humor writer formerly of Maplewood, to create hand-drawn caricatures and custom art for the cards. "Pete asked me to do something I love to do," Parker explained. "It's in my Making a Game out of Fraud Local resident funds card game with Kickstarter campaign BY ELLEN DONKER