Finding That Needle in the Haystack - 2 CPE Credits

Long Island ACFE #43 presents Finding That Needle in the Haystack

September 14, 2021: 2:00-4:00

Delivery: Webinar Based

CPE Credits: 2 Credits of Specialized Knowledge

Speaker: James Tunkey CFE  New York Office Head and Chief Operating Officer of I-OnAsia, a global risk management consultancy.

Learning Objectives

 An approach to structuring documents in proper chronological or thematic order, to better understand the available evidence.

• How to recognize fraud clues in what may be absent or missing from a cache of materials.
• Practical methods for investigating two types frauds.

Recent Experiences with Physical Evidence

 A fraud examiner walks into a victim’s home and sees piles of papers stacked to the ceiling on the dining room table.  In another case, the starting point for a fraud examination is a large pile of garbage bags that are full of seized documents that have gone moldy sitting in a storage unit.  Where to begin?  In this presentation, we will look at lessons learned in two recent fraud investigations cases.  The first case study will walk through a $2 million embezzlement.  The fraud caused a larger $10 million loss by investors.  We will focus on the trove of physical documents that were relied upon to ultimately make a case, and how they were handled and used to inform interviews, fieldwork, and computer forensics.  The characteristics of this type of real estate fraud, and lessons for investors will be discussed.  The second case study will walk through a US$90 million scheme.  We will again look at how a cache of materials that had been collected by the victim himself were collated and analyzed.  Key clues will be discussed, including leads to documents that were missing from that initial cache.  Colorful twists and turns of the case will be discussed in detail.

 About The Speaker

James Tunkey CFE is the New York office head and Chief Operating Officer of I-OnAsia, a global risk management consultancy.  James’s team in the Americas has handled 5,000 assignments since 2004 in critical areas of Due Diligence, Crisis Management, Security Services, Corporate Investigations, and Litigation Support.  James holds a TRIUM MBA, jointly conferred by NYU Stern, the London School of Economics, and HEC Paris.   James has been a Certified Fraud Examiner since 2003.  His fraud investigation work builds on his international experience and skills as an analyst of large and complex data sets.  James has always enjoyed “following the paper trail”. 

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