PRIOR SPEAKERS and TOPICS
The COCFE is proud of the quality of presenters and presentations we have had at our breakfast trainings and seminars. Below is a sample of our speakers and topics
| DATES | GUEST SPEAKERS | TOPICS |
| 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 Gonvernment 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 |
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Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28, 2022 |
Various | 2022 COCFE Fall Fraud Conference |
| 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 sShemes, and Healthcare Fraud Case Highlights. |
| May 27, 2022 | JENNIFER K. DIETZ, MS, AHFI, CFE, Director, Program Integrity | Uncovering Bias |
| March 25, 2022 | Christine Z. J. Noel, PhD, CPA |
Choosing Industries Wisely: A Case of Professionals Toking Up the Wrong Tree. |
| December 3, 2021 | Ilya Lyubimskiy, JD/CPA/CFE | Deterring Fraud Through Careful Estate Planning |
| September 24, 2021 | Jacque Riordon & Kevin Hyland | Internal Investigations for Large Corporations |
| July 30, 2021 | Brad Sargent, CPA/ABV/CFE/CFF/CFS/CCA/CRFAC/FABFA and Jennifer Salisbury, Esq. | The Colorado Uniform Fraudlent Transfer Act, and what CFE's should know |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| January 8, 2021 | Jacque Riordon, Riordon Consulting | Illegal Sou Sou's |
| December 4, 2020 | Ian Kildow with the Colorado Attorney General's Office | Insurance Fraud Study Case |
| September 25, 2020 | Jeff Neadle with Covent Bridge | Cell Phone Data |
| January 10, 2020 | Kevin Rasmussen, FTI Consulting Inc | Forensic Accounting & Expert Witness Support |
| December 6, 2019 | Gordon Coombes, Investigations Supervisor with Denver Human Services, Program Integrity Unit | Public Assistance Fraud, An Overview |
| October 24 & 25, 2019 | 2019 COCFE Conference | 2019 COCFE Conference Details |
| September 26, 2019 | Special Agent Sandra Ennis, US Department of Education | Education Fraud |
| July 19, 2019 | Joseph A. Buchholtz, Aspen Litigation Support, LLC | Social Media Data Capture & Preservation |
| May 31, 2019 | Melinda Redenius and Robert Kelso, Forensics Pursuit, a Denver-Based Company | Computer Forensics Basics |
| March 29, 2019 | Alison Connaughty and Rebecca Goffena/CO Attorney General's Office | The Lighter Side of Fraud |
| January 11, 2019 | Greg Winchell, CFE, Senior Investigator with Pinnacol Assurance | Workers Compensation Fraud |
| 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 |
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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. |
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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, CFE |
Fraud: Case Study on the use of a CFE in a large fraud trial. |
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May 2015 |
Danny M. Goldberg, Founder of GOLDSRD |
Practical Fraud Auditing [Presentation] |
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March 2015 |
Jessica Leto, CFE, Paralegal |
Fraud - As Seen Through the Eyes of the Federal Defender's Office |
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January 2015 |
Michele Horn, CFE, JD |
BP Oil Spill Claims Review |
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December 2014 |
Gerald Rome, CDORA, Acting Securities Commissioner |
Securities Fraud |
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October 2014 |
Various |
Two-day fall conference |
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Sept 2014 |
Sandy Chrisman and Jeff Chrisman of Bulldog Detectives, and Pete Evans |
Elderly/Religious Affinity Fraud |
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July 2014 |
Matthew Dahl, FBI agent (Domestic Counter-Terrorism/ Violent Crime Divisions) |
Sovereign Citizens |
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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 |
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March 2014 |
Laurie Kelly, CoBank Compliance Officer |
Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Fraud Initiatives in Banking |
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January 2014 |
Douglas Oliver, FBI Special Agent |
White Collar Crime |
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December 2013 |
Pamela Durkee, U.S. Postal Inspector, Supervisor |
Prosecuting White-Collar Crimes utilizing the federal Mail Fraud Statute |
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October 2013 |
Various |
Two-day fall conference |
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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 |
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May 2013 |
Alissa Gardenswartz Senior Assistant Attorney General, Consumer Fraud Unit |
Charity Fraud and the Colorado Charitable Solicitations Act Presentation |
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March 2013 |
Scott Smith, Criminal Investigator, Colorado Department of Corrections Office of the Inspector General (OIG) |
Conducting Criminal Investigations in a Correctional Setting |
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January 2013 |
Todd Faubion, MAS, CPS, CFE: Operational Security Consultant, Pinnacol Assurance |
Assessing Dangerousness in People and Situations During Your Investigation |
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November 2012 |
Sean O’Brien Laboratory Director Rocky Mountain RCFL |
Digital forensics from a law enforcement perspective |
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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 |
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Sept 2012 |
Jason Ezell, Detective with the Lakewood Police Department Internal Affairs Unit |
Internal Investigations (Click for presentation) |
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July 2012 |
Kent Prose Senior Criminal Investigator, Denver DA's office |
Managing large scale cases |
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May 2012 |
Mike Melito,prosecutor with the Colorado Attorney |
White Collar Crime(click for presentation) |
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Mar 2012 |
Rand Gambrell,CPA, CVA, CFE, ABV, CFF |
Fraud Can Wreak Havoc |
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Jan 2012 |
David Schachter, EsqSherman & Howard |
What exactly is intellectual property? |
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Nov 11 |
John KuglinSenior Technology Consultant |
Cloud computing |
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Oct 11 |
Various |
Two-day fall seminar |
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Sept 11 |
Amanda Rocque, Affirmative Civil Enforcement Division at the US Attorneys Office |
The False Claims Act |
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July 11 |
Ralph Gagliardi, Agent-in Charge, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Kevin Hyland, Agent, Colorado Bureau of Investigation |
Corporate Identity Theft |
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May 11 |
William TaylorAlex HoldenCyopsis,IT Forensics and Investigation |
ACH Fraud |
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March 11 |
Mark MagnusonLead Investigator / Investigations Supervisor, Weld County Dept. of Human Services |
Welfare Fraud |
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Jan 11 |
Jena de Mers Raney and Carol Gialiani, US Dept. of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards |
Labor Union Fraud |
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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 |
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Oct 10 |
Various
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Two-day fall conference |
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Sept 10 |
Joel Wade Fraud Prevention Officer |
Colorado Vital Records Office and the Medical Marijuana Registry Colorado, Department of Public Health & Environment |
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July 10 |
Gordon Yale |
Goodbye and Good Riddance: How Accounting Magnified the Mortgage Crisis |
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May 10 |
Bob Jaros, Deputy State Controller |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
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April 10 |
Various |
ACFE Conference in Denver (Contract procurement) |
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Mar 10 |
Ken King and Kirsten Gregg |
Conducting background investigations in a government, regulatory framework. |
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Jan 10 |
Marion Jenkins |
Social Networking- Business Builder or Business Wrecker? |
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Nov 09 |
Joanna Meyer |
Healthcare Fraud in a Government Setting |
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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" |
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Sept 09 |
Arun Kothanath |
Data Breaches |
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July 09 |
Greg Winchell, CFE, |
The Elements of a Workers’ Compensation False Claim |
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March 09 |
Doug Laufer, Ph.D., CFE, CPA |
Fraud Examination Education: Courses and Programs and ACFE Certification Process |
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Jan 09 |
Drew T. Durham |
Unemployment benefit fraud: Case study in catching government benefit fraud thieves. |
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Nov 08 |
Peter Millar |
Internal Audit’s Role in Fraud Prevention & Detection (Joint meeting with the IIA) |
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Oct 08 |
Don Rabon |
2 day seminar entitled Written Discourse Analysis - How to detect deception in written documents. |
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Sept 08 |
Cliff Stricklin |
Enron and Qwest - Learning from the mistakes of others |
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July 08 |
Jeff and Sandy Chrisman
Mark Roggeman
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Religious Affinity Fraud |
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May 08 |
Wayne Munster |
Voter Fraud - State of Colorado, Elections Division |
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March 08 |
Eugene Ferraro |
Ethical Investigations for CFE's |
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Jan 08 |
Barbara Martin-Morely
Robin Finegan
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Elder Fraud |
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Nov 07 |
Gordon Yale |
Case Study - Securities Fraud |
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Oct 07 |
Don Rabon |
2 day seminar - Detecting Deception in Interpersonal Communication |
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Sept 07 |
Cherry Mallard, CFE |
Analyzing Written Statements - Jon Benet Case Study |
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July 07 |
Kevin Hyland |
Mortgage Fraud |
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May 07 |
Tom McAndrews |
Money Laundering |
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March 07 |
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Jan 07 |
Paula Frazer Michael Handy |
Application/Resume Fraud |
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Nov 06 |
David Milstead |
Red Flags for Journalists |
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Oct 06 |
Various Speakers |
October 2 day seminar -Fraud, where it starts and where it ends |
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Sept 06 |
Melanie Names |
To Catch a Thief - Case Study - Harry Kaufman |
