In our second year at The Grand Hotel and Salem Convention Center in Salem, Oregon the 13th Annual Financial Crimes & Digital Evidence Conference is going to be the best EVER! We can't wait until the counter hits zero, and we get to start the very best in training for prosecutors, investigators, auditors, banking officials and forensic analysts.
FIS: A Payments Resource for Fraud Investigations (Credit, Check, Debit, and Prepaid Fraud)
This session will provide:
Medicaid Fraud and Financial Exploitation of Elders: The Other Side of Murder Mountain
This session will demonstrate common themes in multi-defendant Medicaid-funded Home Care Worker fraud cases through a case study of the investigation and prosecution of State v Bimla Boyd, Garold Hill and Jasmine Boyd. This case highlights challenges to investigating and prosecuting this fraud, and elder abuse and financial exploitation case and presents strategies for overcoming similar challenges. View the FULL AGENDA HERE
Pink Collar Crime: Women Embezzlers in the Workplace
This session will be about women embezzlers in the workplace. In 1989 Kathleen Daly coined the term “pink collar crime”. What exactly is the definition of pink collar crime? Who are pink collar criminals? How are they different from white collar criminals?
There are stories in the news daily about the PTA mom, dental office manager, long time trusted employee, who end up stealing from their workplaces. Women embezzlers have increased in numbers according to the FBI. This presentation will give both anecdotal and research based evidence about pink collar crime. This presentation will discuss methods, commonalities, rationale among the pink collar criminals and possibly most importantly how to use the information to assist in investigations. View the FULL AGENDA HERE
What Now? Answers for Crime Victims
Guidance for crime victims during and after the criminal case has concluded (or if no prosecution occurred), including the significance of exercising statutory and constitutional crime victim rights, collection of restitution, administrative remedies, limits of crime victim compensation, resources for seeking civil remedies, addressing credit issues resulting from financial crimes, and availability of protective orders. View the FULL AGENDA HERE
Lessons from the Investigation and Prosecution of the $2.1 Million Bogus Oregon Income Tax Return
Presenters will share lessoned learned from this investigation and prosecution including: how to effectively work with the Oregon Department of Revenue in criminal tax cases; tips for working with stored value cards; collecting relevant evidence; and the use of racketeering in securing a significant five-year sentence. View the FULL AGENDA HERE
Director of Loss Prevention, Safeway (NW Division)
Rick Whidden is the Director of Loss Prevention for Safeway’s Northwest Division.
Detective - Multnomah County Sheriff's Office
Detective Jay Pentheny is with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.
Detective - SCERS, EnCE
Micah Smith is the Computer Crimes Detective for the Linn County Sheriff’s Office in Albany, Oregon, primarily investigating computer-facilitated child sex crimes, and undercover peer-to-peer file sharing investigations, as well as conducting computer forensics examinations for Linn County and neighboring agencies. Detective Smith’s forensic specialty has focused on the Mac operating system, as well as…
Assistant Disciplinary Counsel
Kellie Johnson has served as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel with the Oregon State Bar since 2010.
Forfeiture Counsel, City of Portland
Attorney Erin Olsen’s legal practice specializes in the representation of victims in both civil and criminal courts. This includes elder financial abuse cases against family members, real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and “foreclosure rescue” scammers. Her representation of vulnerable victims often includes the enforcement of their rights as crime victims in the criminal investigation and…
