CPAs Hosting Anti-Fraud/Anti-Money Laundering Conference

Since the financial collapse in 2008, there has been greater scrutiny of financial institutions and transactions. Illicit activities such as fraud and money laundering continue to plague the finance industry. A June 22 conference to be hosted by the New York State Society of CPAs Foundation for Accounting Education is aiming to provide attendees with practical tools to help prevent and detect fraud with sessions including: 

·                     Finding the Money: How the Experts Trace Assets
·                     Fraud Prevention and Detection in Not-for-Profit Entities
·                     Dodd-Frank Act: Beyond the Whistleblower Provisions, and
·                     Mortgage Fraud in the New York area
 
Other speakers will talk about counter-terrorist financing and how to conduct an effective fraud audit, among other topics.
 
Speakers include:
 
M. Jacob Renick, Managing Director, NHB Advisors, Inc.
 
Robert L. Goecks, President, Egris LLC
 
Richard Weber, Deputy Chief, Investigation Division, and Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau, U.S. County Court, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
 
Leonard W. Vona, President, Fraud Auditing Inc.
 
Michael Lockard, Assistant United States Attorney, U.S Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
 
Douglas A. Leff, Unit Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Unit, FBI
 
Seetha Ramachandran, Deputy Chief , Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Department of Justice
 
Sean M. O’Malley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 
David Zweighaft, DSZ Forensic Accounting & Consulting Services, LLC
 
S. David Belsky, Partner, S.D. Belsky & Associates
 
Thomas Levanti, CFE, Lieutenant, NYPD
 
Ronald B. Klein, Vice President, Claims Counsel, Camico
 
Peter Romaniuk, Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center on Terrorism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
 
Richard Barrett, Coordinator, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Implementation Monitoring Team, United Nations
 
John Riggi, Assistant Section Chief, Terrorist Financing Operations Section, FBI
 
Martin Feuer, Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for the Americas, Zurich Financial Services
 
Richard W. Kinville II, Vice President, Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Prudential Financial
 
Sandra Stolt, Small Business/Self-Employed Bank Secrecy Act Policy Manager, IRS
 
Patrick Lightcap, Project Officer, Office of Compliance, FinCEN
 
Daniel L. Kurtz, Partner, Exempt Organizations Practice Leader, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
 
D. Edward Martin, Copartner, New York Not-for-Profit Group, EisnerAmper LLP
 
Norman B. Arnoff, Sole Practitioner
 
Rachel Rojas, Supervisory Special Agent, Criminal Squad, White Collar Division, FBI
 
Michael H. Sherrod, Senior Manager, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, Ernst & Young LLP
 
Vincent Walden, Senior Manager, Assurance Services, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services, Ernst & Young LLP