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Continuing Professional Education Credits
3 CPEs
Cost:
$25 Members
$40 Non-Members
Agenda
09:00 AM
Opening Remarks: Michael McCall, President-ACFE Boston Chapter
09:10 - 10:00
Fraud Investigations in Bankruptcy Cases
Timothy J. Martin, CIRA, CFE, CTP, CCFI, Managing Director – Huron Consulting Group
Shari I. Dwoskin, Partner - Brown Rudnick LLP’s
The presentation will focus on fraud investigations in bankruptcy cases, including (1) examples of fraud investigations in bankruptcy, (2) who has standing to bring certain claims in fraud cases (3) the types of forensic analysis typically employed by professionals in bankruptcy cases, (4) the Ponzi presumption and its implications, and (5) in pari delicto.
Shari I. Dwoskin is a partner in Brown Rudnick LLP’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group in Boston. She represents creditors’ committees, tort victims, bondholders, equity interest holders, and debtors in chapter 11 restructurings and litigation arising from related disputes, as well as out-of-court wind-downs. Ms. Dwoskin has experience managing many facets of the restructuring process in some of the largest recent bankruptcy cases, including negotiating restructuring support agreements, plans and DIPs; plan-confirmation trials; valuation; avoidance actions; bankruptcy auctions; the claims-resolution process; and related motion practice and litigation. She also regularly consults with Brown Rudnick’s Corporate, Intellectual Property and Real Estate Groups on bankruptcy-related matters. Ms. Dwoskin co-chairs the New England Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and was named an Up and Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2021. She received her B.A. in 2002 from McGill University, her M.A. in 2006 from Harvard University and her J.D. in 2014 from Harvard University, where she was editor-in-chief of the American Criminal Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Law Barristers’ Council, Appellate Advocacy Division.
Timothy J. Martin, CIRA, CFE, CTP, CCFI is a managing director at Huron Consulting Group in Boston and leads its Corporate Dispute Advisory practice. He has more than 25 years of experience providing forensic, investigative and financial advisory services to companies, boards of directors, creditors, equity holders, and the legal community. Mr. Martin’s experience includes leading engagements involving misappropriation of funds, fraudulent conveyances, securities and financial statement fraud, Ponzi and pyramid schemes, portfolio company forensic investigations and experience providing forensic, investigative, and financial advisory services to companies, boards of directors and other stakeholders. He has been involved in many high-profile investigations, including investigating the failures at HealthSouth, the Kmart Stewardship investigation, the Thomas Petters and TelexFree Ponzi schemes, the Residential Capital examiner reports, and advising parties in the Purdue Pharma opioid litigation. Mr. Martin recently served as financial advisor to the court-appointed examiner in the Celsius Networks LLC chapter 11 case and as to counsel to the independent board members of SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank. He previously held positions with KPMG, LLP and Arthur Andersen, LLP. Mr. Martin received his B.A. in accounting in 1997 from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
10:05 - 10:55
Catch-22: How New Forensic Accountants Can Gain Testifying Experience - 101
Adam Rabinowitz, CFE, CPA/CFF, CVA, Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services - Kaufman Rossin & Co
This course will cover:
- Recognize the challenges of testifying in court and how to overcome them
- Identify the skills necessary to be a great testifier
- Apply the principles of effective communication for personal and career development
- Improve communication skills, confidence and critical thinking
It’s a catch-22: To testify as an expert, you need experience, but to gain experience, you need to testify. In this session, you will hear practical insights regarding critical skills and mindset for newer forensic accounting testifiers and what they can do to gain valuable testimony experience. Learn how to be an effective communicator and storyteller while navigating difficulties such as becoming comfortable in uncomfortable situations, embracing the unknown, having the courage to take risks and speak up and overcoming the fear of failure. This session will also provide insights on what more-experienced testifiers can do to transition testimony experience to their newer investigators.
Adam Rabinowitz co-leads Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services practice and is a Certified Public Accountant, specialized in financial forensics and business valuation, with more than 18 years of experience in providing expert witness and litigation consulting services related to:
- Economic damages,
- Business valuation, and
- Fraud investigations.
Adam's expertise includes assisting counsel and tries of fact with complex economic damage and valuation issues, including lost profits, diminished and lost business value, and disgorgement. These are applied to cases involving contract disputes, intellectual property infringement, fraud, corporate dissolution, and shareholder matters.
Adam provides support to attorneys by applying his particular expertise in:
- Analyzing and interpreting complex data,
- Crafting supportable economic damage models, and
- Clearly communicating findings in an understandable way to the triers of fact.
11:00 - 11:55
Real Grant Fraud-Fighting Tactics You Can Use Immediately
Jason LeBeau, CFE, CPA, Senior Special Agent - US Department of Justice
This course will cover:
- Identify red flags within grant programs that normally go undetected.
- Determine the steps to take once a fraud has been uncovered.
- Examine grant fraud investigations and how these cases were successfully resolved.
This session will present real life grant fraud scenarios, how they were discovered, how they were investigated and red flags that went unnoticed for years. You will learn how to recognize these red flags early, and ultimately, the steps to take to complete a successful investigation through the insights of a federal financial crime investigator.
Senior Special Agent (SSA) Jason LeBeau has more than 24 years of federal law enforcement experience. SSA LeBeau began his law enforcement career in October 2001 as a Special Agent with IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). In April 2014, SSA LeBeau began working as a Special Agent with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Inspector General (FDIC-OIG). By September 2021, he transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) where he currently works as a Senior Special Agent.
SSA LeBeau is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Throughout his career, SSA LeBeau has investigated hundreds of cases involving bank fraud, tax evasion, money laundering drug trafficking, terrorist financing, wire fraud, mail fraud, grant fraud, corporate financial reporting fraud, embezzlement schemes, employee misconduct, sexual assault crimes and internet crimes against children.
He is regularly called upon by various U.S. attorney’s offices throughout the country to investigate complex financial crimes. Prior to his federal employment, SSA LeBeau worked at the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.