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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 97-16 Filed 12/14/20 Page 2 of 4 Statement of x i. am a forensic accountant and private investigator, and the owner Hy 0606UmUttt~<“‘<‘COSOSCSC*@ I received a BA in Economics from Lehman College in 1973 and an advanced degree in Personal Financial Planning from Lehman College in 1997. I have been a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) since receiving that designation in 1997. i) Prior to entering the private sector, I was a Special Agent with the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID) from 1973 until my retirement in 1998. As a Special Agent, I worked on numerous financial fraud investigations, including several with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In addition, during the last five years of my employment with the IRS, I received the designation of Cross-Designation Authority from the FBI while being a member of the joint task force with the FBI and the NYPD whose responsibilities were to investigate the federal money laundering statutes on a national and international scale. 3. Ihave over forty years of experience in complex financial fraud investigations, including: income tax violations, white collar crime, and securities fraud. I also have extensive field experience in the tracing of assets and reviewing books and records to recognize, identify, and trace suspicious DOJ-OGR-00002072