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MONDAY                       Tracks                                 Session Title                                                            Speakers

10:00 AM  3:50 PM    FIMSI   FIMSI Financial Industry Mail Security Initiative Program     
10:00 AM  11:00 AM      Dealing with Hostile Situations on Exams,
 Audits, and Investigations		  Ed Stolle, Branch Manager, Federal Housing Finance Agency  
11:00 AM 11:20 AM    Break    
11:20 AM 12:20 PM    2020: The Year of NRI  Greg Marrett, Investigations Manager, Capital One  
12:20 PM  1:30 PM    Break    
1:30 PM  2:30 PM    Trinitarios: A Violent Street Gang's Descent Into
 Mail Theft and Bank Fraud Case Study		  Charles Germershausen, Postal Inspector, U.S. Postal Inspection Service  
2:30 PM  2:50 PM     Break
 
2:50 PM  3:50 PM                               Sovereign Citizens: Ideology, Tactis, Trends, Identifiers  Mark Pitcavage, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow Center on Extremism,
 Anti-Defamation League		  
 
TUESDAY   General Sessions
9:00 AM 10:15 AM                     Call to Order Master of Ceremonies   Michael Carroll, International President;  
 Barbara Minkwitz, Conference Chair		  
       Anthem   Pauline Wells, Deputy Superintendent, Cambridge Police Dept.  
       International Award Ceremony  Law Officer of the Year   
         Prosecutor of the Year  
           Financial Crimes Investigator of the Year  
         Cyber Crimes Investigator of the Year  
         Task Force of the Year  
   

 Donald Drummond, Member of the Year, Award  
         Chairman's Award  
         President's Award  
 9:45 AM 10:05 AM
 Welcome To Boston  Police Commissioner William G. Gross, Boston Police Department   
10:05 AM 10:25 AM
 Welcome To Boston  Andrew Lelling, United States Attorney, Department of Justice,
 U.S. Attorney's Office
  
10:25 AM 10:30 AM    Meet our Exhibitors    
10:30 AM 11:20 AM
 "The Rise of Financial Crimes During Armed Conflict"  Phillip Weiner, Former International Judge, Massachusetts  
11:25 AM  12:15 PM   Dealing with Active Threats: From a Company Perspective  Darrin Steinmann, Vice President, Director of Corporate Investigations,
 Fifth Third Bank		  
12:15 PM 12:45 PM      Break    
12:45 PM  1:45 PM                                  Crypto Investigations  Robert Whitaker, Chief Operating Officer, Certified Bitcoin Professional, Blockchain
 Intelligence Group		  

TUESDAY Breakout Sessions
2:05 PM 2:55 PM  Cyber 
  Cyber Attackers are Innovating, But are They?  James Moeller, Principal Cybersecurity Consultant, Microsoft  
2:05 PM 2:55 PM  Retail Organized Retail Crime – Addressing Fraud in a Retail Space  Rory Stallard, Senior Manager - AP Investigations, The Home Depot  
2:05 PM 2:55 PM  Auto Finance  Vehicle Subleasing Schemes and Trends  Todd Wolf, Senior Fraud Investigator, Ally
2:05 PM 2:55 PM  Current Trends  Torture to Truth, The Evolution of Interrogation  David Thompson, Vice President/Partner, Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc.  
2:05 PM 2:55 PM  Ethics  Sexual Harassment in the Workplace  Mikhail Ilin, Esq., Adjunct Faculty Business Law and Ethics, Suffolk University  
2:05 PM 2:55 PM  Emerging Trends   Understanding the OCC Position on Cryptoasset
 Authority and Custody Services		  Daniel Spuller, Co-Chairman, North Carolina Blockchain Initiative;
 Grovetta Gardineer, Senior Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy, OCC;
 Hailey Lennon, Principal, Lennon Legal Consulting		  
2:55 PM 3:15 PM    Break       
3:15 PM 4:05 PM&  Cyber  2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
 and the Cyber Threat Landscape		  John Grim,  Head/Research, Development Innovation, Verizon Threat
 Research Advisory Center		  
3:15 PM 4:05 PM  Scams  Debit Card Scam, "Crackin Cards" Update, Prevention
 Methods and Case Study 		  Michael Carroll, Fraud Analyst, United States Postal Inspection Service
 Brian O'Connor, Detective, Cambridge Police Department;
 Caitlin Piasecki, Postal Inspector, United States Postal Inspection Service
  
3:15 PM 4:05 PM  AML  Law Enforcement and Industry Fighting the War
 Against Money Laundering
 Cartels and Fraud Schemes		  
 Christopher Healy, Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security 
 Investigations (HSI)
  
3:15 PM 4:05 PM  Ethics  Continued Investigations in the Age of COVID  Mikhail Ilin, Esq., Adjunct Faculty Business Law and Ethics, Suffolk University  
3:15 PM 4:05 PM  Award Winner   Unraveling the Web of Lies  in a $1.4M Fraud
               		  Christopher Derry, Detective, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
 (1st Runner-Up, Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award)		  
3:15 PM 4:05 PM  Award Winner    CBP Support to Local, State, Federal, and
 International Criminal Investigations 		  Peter Walsh, Intelligence Research Specialist, Customs and Border Protection
 (Investigator of the Year)		  

     Break    
4:10 PM 5:00 PM   Cyber  Using Technology to Advance Investigations  Keith Elliott, Chief Executive Officer, Reed Research Investigations, Ltd.  
 4:10 pm  5:00 PM    Fighting Fraud: The Federal Reserve's Strategies to
 Advance  Payment Security		  Michael Timoney, Vice President - Secure Payments, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston  
4:10 PM 5:00 PM   Retail  

 Where's the Money? How to Identify, Investigate,
 Recover Cash and Prosecute Payment Card Money
 Laundering Crimes

  Steve Beckerman, Chief Operating Officer, ERAD Group, Inc.  
4:10 PM 5:00 PM   Human Trafficking  The FinCEN SAR Checkbox for Human Trafficking
 and Following the Money for Modern Day Slavery		  Joann Alicea, Senior Compliance Officer, Global Financial Crimes Compliance
 AML Investigations, J.P.Morgan Chase		  
4:10 PM 5:00 PM  Award Winner  R v. Marcia Motayne       Andrew Max, Litigation Lawyer, Polley Faith, LLP
 (Prosecutor of the Year Award Winner 2020)		  
4:10 PM 5:00 PM  Current Trends "U.S. Marshals Service, Financial Surveillance Unit"  Gin Ortiz, Senior Inspector, United States Marshals Service - FSU
 Kevin Perreault, Senior Inspector, United States Marshals Service - FSU		  

   
Wednesday General Sessions
9:00 AM  9:10 AM                   
 Call To Order Master of Ceremonies  Michael Carroll, International President;
 Barbara Minkwitz, Conference Chair		  
9:10 AM  10:10 AM     Boston Marathon Bomber and Whitey Bulger
 Case Studies		  Carmen Ortiz, Partner, Anderson & Kreiger, LLP, former U.S. Attorney
 for  the District  of Massachusetts		  
10:10 AM  11:05 AM
 Understanding White Collar Criminals  Julia Cowley, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation   
11:05 AM 11:15 AM
 Break    
11:15 AM 12:10 PM
 The Use of Suspicious Activity Reports in Federal
 Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions		  Neil Gallagher, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Senior Litigation Counsel, U.S.
 Attorney's  Office for the District of Massachusetts		  
12:10 PM  1:00 PM
 Behind the Scenes of Money Mule Networks  Sergey Shykevich, Director of Intelligence, Q6 Cyber  
 1:00 PM  1:30 PM     Break    


Wednesday Breakout Sessions
1:30 PM 2:20 PM  Retail  Manipulation of the Stock Market Through Data Breaches
 and Security Compromises 		  Joshua Marpet, Chief Operating Officer, Red Lion LLC  
1:30 PM 2:20 PM   Current Trends  Payroll Protection Program, Paying People & Fraudsters  Steve Lenderman, Global Security Organization, ADP  
1:30 PM 2:20 PM   Current Trends          
  Elder Financial Exploitation: Is this the Crime of the
 21st Century?		  Paul Greenwood, Retired Deputy Assistant Attorney,
 AARP Fraud Watch Network
 1:30 PM 2:20 PM   Current Trends  Fraud Issues Related to Biometric Identity  Kinny Chan, Executive Vice President, Trust Stamp  
 1:30 PM 2:20 PM   Current Trends  Case Study - Operation "Chase the Bag"
 Synthetic Business Fraud /  Check Fraud		  Daniel Alessandrino, Detective, New York City Police Department  
 2:30 PM 3:20 PM   Current Tends  Senior Financial Exploitation"Trillion Dollar Opportunity"  Tim Brady, Senior Director, Client Intelligence Unit, Fraud Response, TIAA, 
 Debbie Noury, Senior Director, Fraud Investigations, Fidelity Investments;
 Susan Axelrod, Chief Supervisory Officer, Merrill Lynch		  
 2:30 PM 3:20 PM   Current Trends  Sports Gambling in America: The End of All Problems or
 Bogus Betting Baloney?		  Declan Hill - P. Phil (Oxon), Associate Professor of Investigations,
 University of New Haven		  
 2:30 PM 3:20 PM   AML  OFAC - The Basics and How it Applies to Everyone  Brian O'Toole, Director, Sanctions and Screening, Truist Financial Corp.  
 2:30 PM 3:20 PM   Bust Out  Synthetic Identity, Reviewing the Past & Present to Predict
 the Future		  Steve Lenderman, Global Security Organization, ADP.
 Barbara Simcox, Director of Education and Law Enforcement Liaison, 
  Turnkey Risk Solutions		  
 2:30 PM 3:20 PM   Auto Finance  Mitigating Fraud at CarMax  Eric Chase, CFI, Assistant Vice President of Asset Protection, CarMax  
       Break    
 3:40 PM 4:30 PM   Current Trends Enhancing Criminal Investigations Through Secured
Information Sharing		  Matthew McDonald, Chief Information Officer, Regional Information
 Sharing Systems (RISS)		  
 3:40 PM 4:30 PM   Current Trends  VPN Vulnerability in Remote Work Scenarios  Vince Costagliola, Facilities Security Officer, Vice President of Operations,
 SR Technologies, Inc.		  
 3:40 PM 4:30 PM   Award Winners  Project Sindacato  Owen Buchner, Detective Constable, York Regional Police;
 Marni Lawson, Detective Constable, Ontario Provincial Police
 (Task Force of the Year)		  
 3:40 PM 4:30 PM   Current Trends  Don't Be A Mule   Roy Dotson, Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service
 3:40 PM 4:30 PM   Emerging Trends  Uber Data and Operational Resources for Law Enforcement   Wade Stormer, Law Enforcement Liaison Manger, United States,
 Uber Technologies, Inc.		  
3:40 PM 4:30 PM    Scams  Scams Targeting Seniors, How to Investigate a Caregiver
 - Case Study		  Phil Bartlett, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service
 Michael Carroll, Fraud Analyst, United States Postal Inspection Service
 Missy Coyne, Regional Learning & Development Facilitator, National Insurance
 Crime Bureau
 April DeValkenaere, White Collar Crime Paralegal, Waukesha County District
 Attorney's Office		  

THURSDAY General Sessions
9:00 AM 9:10 AM  General Sessions   Call to Order Farewell , Master of Ceremonies   Michael Carroll, International President; Barbara Minkiwitz, Conference Chair
9:10 AM 10:10 AM     Gas Pump Skimming and Organized Crime     Jeffrey Roberts, Detective, Tyler Police Department 
10:10 AM 10:20 AM 
 Break  
10:20 AM 11:20 AM     How Hamilton Would Search Facebook Like
 an OSINT Expert -  Don't Throw Away Your Shot		  Kirby Plessas, CEO, Plessas Experts Network, Inc.
11:20 AM 12:20 PM                                  AARP and IAFCI: Empowering and Educating Together  Kathy Stokes, Director of Fraud Prevention Programs, AARP;
 Amy Nofziger, Director of Victim Support, AARP;
 Joy McGill, Associate State Director of Community Outreach, AARP - Oklahoma;
 Mark Solomon, Detective, Greenwich Police Department;
 Rey Santiago, Retired, United States Postal Service/OIG
12:20 PM  1:00 PM     Break  


THURSDAY Breakouts Sessions
1:00 PM   1:50 PM         Current Trends   Tools for Investigating Social Media Sites  Staff Operations Specialist, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1:00 PM   1:50 PM  Cyber   Introduction to Cryptocurrency  Donald McGrail, Assistant to  the Special Agent in Charge, United States
 Secret Service - Boston Field Office
1:00 PM   1:50 PM  Mortgage Fraud  Unusual Referral Sources that Identifies Mortgage
 Fraud Schemes and Investigations		  Mark Kasak, Director, MGK investigations;
 Richard Hagar, President, American Home Appraisals/The Hagar Institute
1:00 PM   1:50 PM  International Trends  The Bank of Mom and Dad (A Case Study)  Martin Franssen, Investigator, Durham Regional Police Service, Canada
1:00 PM   1:50 PM  Current Trends  Non-Confrontational Interview and Interrogation
 Techniques, Part I		  David Thompson, Vice President/Partner, Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc.
       Break  
2:10 PM  3:00 PM  Current Trends  Exploding ATM Trends  John Fick, Vice President, Fraud Investigations,Manager, Columbia Bank
2:10 PM  3:00 PM  Current Trends  Surviving Market Swings  James De La Torre, President & CEO, FedAdvantage
2:10 PM  3:00 PM  AML  Intro To Money Laundering 101  Johnathan E. Willis, Special Agent, Department of Homeland Security (HSI)
2:10 PM  3:00 PM  Emerging Trends  Non-Confrontational Interview and Interrogation
 Techniques- Part II		  David Thompson, Vice President/Partner, Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc.
2:10 PM  3:00 PM  Current Trends  Child Exploitation  Rochelle Keyhan, Chief Executive Officer, Collective Liberty; Joseph Scaramucci,
 Human  Trafficking Detective, McLennan County Sheriff's Office