The COCFE is proud of the quality of presenters and presentations we have had at our breakfast trainings and seminars. Below are the speakers who have presented and the topics they spoke on.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Special Agent Blade Bricker from the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General
Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) Overview and Fraud Schemes
Friday, May 31, 2024
Special Agent Theodore Jamieson from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service
Procurement Fraud
Friday, March 29, 2024
Lindsey Fryer and Dana McMahon, FBI Denver Division Squad CR-1
Blueprint from Fraud to Forfeiture
Thursday, October 26, and Friday, October 27, 2023
Various
2023 COCFE Fall Fraud Conference
Friday, June 23, 2023
Amy Nofziger, Director of Victim Support for the AARP Fraud Watch Network
Elder Fraud & Abuse
Friday, April 21, 2023
Detective Eric Nebel, CFE
Crypto-Currency and Fraud Investigations
Friday, February 17, 2023
Christine Kuglin JD, CPA, LLM,CFE
Tools for Transparency in Government Accounting
Friday, December 2, 2022
Katie O’Donnell, Director of Communications and Public Engagement at DORA
An Overview of DORA and how it can assist in an Investigation
Thursday, October 27, and Friday, October 28, 2022
Various
2022 COCFE Fall Fraud Conference
Friday, July 29, 2022
MaryKay Bunting, Forensic Auditor, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General and Ashley Karmin, Investigative Analyst, Department of Veterans Affairs Officer of the Inspector General
Overview of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) & the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) & Common Healthcare Fraud Schemes, and Healthcare Fraud Case Highlights
Friday, May 27, 2022
Jennifer K. Dietz, MS, AHFI, CFE, Director, Program Integrity
Uncovering Bias
Friday, March 25, 2022
Christine Z. J. Noel, PhD, CPA and Gary A. Hypes, JD, CPA (WV), CFE
Choosing Industries Wisely: A Case of Professionals Toking Up the Wrong Tree
Friday, December 3, 2021
Ilya Lyubimskiy, JD/CPA/CFE
Deterring Fraud Through Careful Estate Planning
Thursday, October 14, and Friday, October 15, 2021
Various
2021 COCFE Fall Fraud Conference
Friday, September 24, 2021
Jacque Riordon and Kevin Hyland
Internal Investigations for Large Corporations
Friday, July 30, 2021
Brad Sargent, CPA/ABV/CFE/CFF/CFS/CCA/CRFAC/FABFA and Jennifer Salisbury, Esq.
The Colorado Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, and what CFE’s should know
Friday, May 28, 2021
Dr. Johnnie R. Bejarano, DBA, CFE, CPA (CO), CGMA, CGFM, and Secretary of the COCFE Board
Identity Theft: Thieves don’t care if you are a CFE
Friday, March 26, 2021
Robert Orozco and Andrea Orozco, both Founder’s and Co-Owners of Advanced Professional Investigations
The ins and outs of working with a Professional Private Investigator
Friday, January 8, 2021
Jacque Riordon, Riordon Consulting
Illegal Sou Sou’s
Friday, December 4, 2020
Ian Kildow with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office
Insurance Fraud Study Case
Thursday, October 22, and Friday, October 23, 2020
Various
2020 COCFE Fall Fraud Conference
Friday, September 25, 2020
Jeff Neadle with Covent Bridge
Cell Phone Data
Friday, January 10, 2020
Kevin Rasmussen, FTI Consulting Inc
Forensic Accounting & Expert Witness Support
Friday, December 6, 2019
Gordon Coombes, Investigations Supervisor with Denver Human Services, Program Integrity Unit
Public Assistance Fraud, An Overview
Thursday, October 24, and Friday, October 25, 2019
Various
2019 COCFE Fall Fraud Conference
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Special Agent Sandra Ennis, US Department of Education
Education Fraud
Friday, July 19, 2019
Joseph A. Buchholtz, Aspen Litigation Support, LLC
Social Media Data Capture & Preservation
Friday, May 31, 2019
Melinda Redenius and Robert Kelso, Forensics Pursuit, a Denver-Based Company
Computer Forensics Basics
Friday, March 29, 2019
Alison Connaughty and Rebecca Goffena/CO Attorney General’s Office
The Lighter Side of Fraud
Friday, January 11, 2019
Greg Winchell, CFE, Senior Investigator with Pinnacol Assurance
Workers Compensation Fraud
| DATES | GUEST SPEAKERS | TOPICS |
| December 7, 2018 | Francine Gonzales, DOR, MVIU, Supervisor, Chief Investigator and William (Bill) Schlitter, DOR, MVIU, Criminal Investigator | Identification of Fraudulent Documents |
| October 2018 | Various | 2018 COCFE Fraud Conference |
| September 28, 2018 | Certified Vehicle Fire Investigator, Eric Black with Knott Laboratory | Property and Casualty Fraud Cases |
| July 27, 2018 | Karen Bliss, Criminal Investigator with the Colorado AG’s Office | Securities Fraud: An At-Risk Adult’s Perspective |
| May 25, 2018 | Ian Kildow, Colorado AG’s Office & Crystal Littrell, Prosecutor with the Colorado AG’s Office | Insurance Fraud Case Law Upates, typical charges filed in criminal fraud prosecutions & examples of different types of insurance fraud cases |
| March 30, 2018 | Joe De Angelo, Weld County DA’s Office | Neuro-Linguistic Analysis |
| January 26, 2018 | Dana Pearce, CIA, CFE, Certified Information Systems Auditor | The Process of Conducting Investigations is Agile |
| December 1, 2017 | Colette Kreger, MC, CFE | ATM Shakedown |
| September 29, 2017 | Dr. Steve G. Green | A Peek at the DoD Fraud Landscape |
| July 28, 2017 | Special Agent in Charge Steven A. Osborne | IRS Current Trends |
| March 31, 2017, Joint Breakfast Training with IIA | Greg Winchell with Pinnacol Insurance | Workman’s Comp Fraud |
| March 6 & 7, 2017 | Thomas A. Caulfield, Chief Operating Officer of Procurement Integrity Consulting Services | Contract and Procurement Fraud |
| January 27, 2017 | Dana Chavez, Criminal Investigator with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office | How Financial Crimes and Auto Theft Crimes are Connected |
| December 2, 2016 | Sean Sloan with the Colorado State Patrol | Human Trafficking and the frauds used to support if in operations across Colorado |
| October 27, 2016 and October 28, 2016 | Various | 2016 COCFE Fraud Conference |
| September 2016 | SSA Jim Gilliam with the National Insurance Crime Lab | Overview of the National Insurance Crime Lab Duties and Responsibilities |
| July 2016 | Denver’s Auditor, Timothy M. O’Brien, CPA | Fraud Aspects at the City |
| May 2016 | Travis Boyd, CPA; Dr. Johnnie Bejarano, DBA, CPA, CFE, CGMA, CGFM; Doug Laufer, CPA | Interviewing Techniques for Auditors |
| March 2016 | Christine Kuglin, MPAcc, CFE, EA; Dr. Andrew Holt and Dr. Allen Rosenbaum | Fraud & Risk in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. |
| January 2016
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Troy Arnold, Investigator, Office of the CO Attorney General, Environmental Crimes Unit; Barbara Martin-Worley, MS, Director, Consumer Fraud Protection, Office of the District Attorney, 18th Judicial District; Jim Milne, Special Agent in Charge at the Colorado Department of Revenue Criminal Tax Enforcement Section; and Robyn Cafasso, Sr. DDA/Econ Unit
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Round Table on Fraud – Stories and Discussions |
| December 2015 | Dave Mowatt, of Mowatt Financial | Fraud and 1031 Exchanges: Pitfalls, Problems and Solutions |
| October 2015 |
Various, including: Matthew Garth (Special Agent with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division); Mark J. Nigrini (Faculty at the College of Business & Economics at West Virginia University, Scott W. Storey (Senior Chief Deputy District Attorney First Judicial District Attorney’s Office); Lewis Koski (Director, Marijuana Enforcement Division, Colorado Department of Revenue); Elizabeth “Beth” Junell (Partner in EY’s Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services; Ramsey Pace (Senior Manager in EY’s Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services; and Candace Werth.
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Two-day fall conference
Various topics |
| July 2015 | Robyn Cafasso; Sr. DDA/Econ Unit, and Robyn Shaw, CPA, CFE | Fraud: Case Study on the use of a CFE in a large fraud trial. |
| May 2015 | Danny M. Goldberg, Founder of GOLDSRD | Practical Fraud Auditing [Presentation] |
| March 2015 | Jessica Leto, CFE, Paralegal | Fraud – As Seen Through the Eyes of the Federal Defender’s Office |
| January 2015 | Michele Horn, CFE, JD | BP Oil Spill Claims Review |
| December 2014 | Gerald Rome, CDORA, Acting Securities Commissioner | Securities Fraud |
| October 2014 | Various | Two-day fall conference |
| Sept 2014 | Sandy Chrisman and Jeff Chrisman of Bulldog Detectives, and Pete Evans | Elderly/Religious Affinity Fraud |
| July 2014 | Matthew Dahl, FBI agent (Domestic Counter-Terrorism/ Violent Crime Divisions) | Sovereign Citizens |
| May 2014 | Dr. Hugh Grove, Professor, School of Accountancy, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver | Identification and Deterrence of Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Click here for presentation materials: Presentation, China Forensic Paper, Nuremberg Paper, Gold Fraud Calculator |
| March 2014 | Laurie Kelly, CoBank Compliance Officer | Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Fraud Initiatives in Banking |
| January 2014 | Douglas Oliver, FBI Special Agent | White Collar Crime |
| December 2013 | Pamela Durkee, U.S. Postal Inspector, Supervisor | Prosecuting White-Collar Crimes utilizing the federal Mail Fraud Statute |
| October 2013 | Various | Two-day fall conference |
| July 2013 | Special Agents Charlie Schlaufman, CPA and Sondra Pennington of the Colorado Department of Revenue Criminal Tax Enforcement Section | Colorado criminal tax law under CRS 39-21-118, examples of investigations |
| May 2013 | Alissa Gardenswartz Senior Assistant Attorney General, Consumer Fraud Unit | Charity Fraud and the Colorado Charitable Solicitations Act Presentation |
| March 2013 | Scott Smith, Criminal Investigator, Colorado Department of Corrections Office of the Inspector General (OIG) | Conducting Criminal Investigations in a Correctional Setting |
| January 2013 | Todd Faubion, MAS, CPS, CFE: Operational Security Consultant, Pinnacol Assurance | Assessing Dangerousness in People and Situations During Your Investigation |
| November 2012 | Sean O’Brien Laboratory Director Rocky Mountain RCFL | Digital forensics from a law enforcement perspective |
| October 2012 | Various | Two-day conference “TRENDS IN FRAUD” CDs were handed out with seminar presentations. The following presentation was not on the CD: Cyber Crime and Check Fraud presentation |
| Sept 2012 | Jason Ezell, Detective with the Lakewood Police Department Internal Affairs Unit | Internal Investigations (Click for presentation) |
| July 2012 | Kent Prose Senior Criminal Investigator, Denver DA’s office | Managing large scale cases |
| May 2012 | Mike Melito,prosecutor with the Colorado Attorney | White Collar Crime(click for presentation) |
| Mar 2012 | Rand Gambrell,CPA, CVA, CFE, ABV, CFF | Fraud Can Wreak Havoc |
| Jan 2012 | David Schachter, EsqSherman & Howard | What exactly is intellectual property? |
| Nov 11 | John KuglinSenior Technology Consultant | Cloud computing |
| Oct 11 | Various | Two-day fall seminar |
| Sept 11 | Amanda Rocque, Affirmative Civil Enforcement Division at the US Attorneys Office | The False Claims Act |
| July 11 | Ralph Gagliardi, Agent-in Charge, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Kevin Hyland, Agent, Colorado Bureau of Investigation | Corporate Identity Theft |
| May 11 | William TaylorAlex HoldenCyopsis,IT Forensics and Investigation | ACH Fraud |
| March 11 | Mark MagnusonLead Investigator / Investigations Supervisor, Weld County Dept. of Human Services | Welfare Fraud |
| Jan 11 | Jena de Mers Raney and Carol Gialiani, US Dept. of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards | Labor Union Fraud |
| Nov 10 | Special Agent Al Wiesner, US Army
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Overview of the Major Procurement Fraud Unit’s structure, within the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command |
| Oct 10 | Various
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Two-day fall conference |
| Sept 10 | Joel Wade
Fraud Prevention Officer |
Colorado Vital Records Office and the Medical Marijuana Registry Colorado, Department of Public Health & Environment |
| July 10 | Gordon Yale | Goodbye and Good Riddance: How Accounting Magnified the Mortgage Crisis |
| May 10 | Bob Jaros, Deputy State Controller | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
| April 10 | Various | ACFE Conference in Denver (Contract procurement) |
| Mar 10 | Ken King and
Kirsten Gregg |
Conducting background investigations in a government, regulatory framework. |
| Jan 10 | Marion Jenkins | Social Networking-
Business Builder or Business Wrecker? |
| Nov 09 | Joanna Meyer | Healthcare Fraud in a Government Setting |
| Oct 09 |
Phil Parrot
Lisa Tennyson
Honorable Judge Gerald J. Rafferty
Pamela Durkee
Linda Kaufman
Andrew Jones
Anthony Scaffidi III
James Morgan Eugene F. Ferraro, CFE |
2 day seminar entitled“Documents Tell the Story” |
| Sept 09 | Arun Kothanath | Data Breaches |
| July 09 | Greg Winchell, CFE, | The Elements of a Workers’ Compensation False Claim |
| March 09 | Doug Laufer, Ph.D., CFE, CPA | Fraud Examination Education: Courses and Programs and ACFE Certification Process |
| Jan 09 | Drew T. Durham | Unemployment benefit fraud: Case study in catching government benefit fraud thieves. |
| Nov 08 | Peter Millar | Internal Audit’s Role in Fraud Prevention & Detection (Joint meeting with the IIA) |
| Oct 08 | Don Rabon | 2 day seminar entitled Written Discourse Analysis – How to detect deception in written documents. |
| Sept 08 | Cliff Stricklin | Enron and Qwest – Learning from the mistakes of others |
| July 08 |
Jeff and Sandy Chrisman
Mark Roggeman
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Religious Affinity Fraud |
| May 08 | Wayne Munster | Voter Fraud – State of Colorado, Elections Division |
| March 08 | Eugene Ferraro | Ethical Investigations for CFE’s |
| Jan 08 |
Barbara Martin-Morely
Robin Finegan
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Elder Fraud |
| Nov 07 | Gordon Yale | Case Study – Securities Fraud |
| Oct 07 | Don Rabon | 2 day seminar – Detecting Deception in Interpersonal Communication |
| Sept 07 | Cherry Mallard, CFE | Analyzing Written Statements
– Jon Benet Case Study |
| July 07 | Kevin Hyland | Mortgage Fraud |
| May 07 | Tom McAndrews | Money Laundering |
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| Jan 07 | Paula Frazer
Michael Handy |
Application/Resume Fraud |
| Nov 06 | David Milstead | Red Flags for Journalists |
| Oct 06 | Various Speakers | October 2 day seminar
-Fraud, where it starts and where it ends |
| Sept 06 | Melanie Names | To Catch a Thief – Case Study – Harry Kaufman |
