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Tom Borgers, CFE
Mortgage and Financial Crisis
and its Impact on the CFE Professional
We have heard a great deal about the mortgage and financial
crisis in the media over the last several weeks. We have seen
the parties and presidential candidates pointing fingers at each
other. Wall Street has fallen to the depths not seen since the
“Great Depression”. Thousands of people are losing their homes
every week and hundreds of thousands are losing their jobs in
New York City and around the country. The Congress and the
Administration are bailing out the financials with the
taxpayers’ money. Confidence in our domestic and global
political and economic systems is at all time low. Who was
responsible for this crisis? What was the cause for this
meltdown: negligence, gross negligence or fraud? Who are the
culpable parties? Will the taxpayers be repaid for the bailout?
Will the private and public sectors go after the culpable
parties? How will these issues and questions impact Certified
Fraud Examiners? These and other points will be address by a
seasoned Certified Fraud Examiner and Financial Analyst Tom
Borgers.
Keith S. Balla,
CPA, PSA
Forensic Accounting
and Its Benefits to Municipalities
Keith S. Balla is a Director in the Roseland, New
Jersey office of M&K Rosenfarb LLC. With more than
25 years combined experience in private industry and
public accounting, Keith has mastered several unique
approaches to auditing and investigative accounting
which have proven to be extremely successful for
clients, including the State of New Jersey, Essex
County, City of Newark, Woodcliff Lake and
Plainfield.He has consulted for several New Jersey
Boards of Education including Newark, Union
Township, Vineland, Lakewood and Princeton.
Mr. Balla’s presentation will include topics such as
savings millions for municipalities, developing
systems for efficiency, fraud prevention and
awareness programs, fraud investigations and
recovery, capitalizing on additional revenue
opportunities, and Independent Inspector General
services.
Alan
I. Blass, CPA, CFE
Recognizing
and Preventing Fraud in the Construction Process
Alan
Blass has spent over 25 years as a forensic
accountant performing financial investigations and
litigation support in both the public and private
sectors. He specializes in white collar crime,
construction frauds and disputes, insurance claims
and matrimonials. Among his most notable projects
was the coordination and supervision of the
financial monitoring of the World Trade Center.
Today, Alan will be discussing various aspects of
the construction process, describe the various
potential frauds and several recommendations for
prevention and detection. Mr. Blass will also
discuss the role of forensic accountants as an
integral part of the anti-fraud and construction
claim teams, at the outset and throughout the
construction process.
Sam Lau,
EnCE
Introduction to Computer Forensics and E-Discovery
Sam
Lau specializes in computer forensics, e-discovery,
and data analysis. Mr. Lau’s expertise includes
forensic identification, preservation, collection,
analysis, and presentation of electronically stored
information. Mr. Lau has assisted attorneys,
federal, state, and local agencies with the recovery
of digital information, involving cases such as
sexual harassment, stock options backdating
investigations, theft of intellectual properties and
proprietary information, financial frauds, and
subpoenaed evidence destructions.
Included in Mr. Lau’s presentation on Computer
Forensics and E-Discovery will be topics such as
preservation and analysis of electronic evidence and
providing users of electronic evidence with the
means to review what has been recovered. |
