The DoDIG Response to COVID-19 and the Cares Act Fraud- Investigations in a Pandemic Environment

When:  Mar 8, 2021 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM (ET)
Associated with  Pennsylvania Northeast Chapter

Topic: The DoDIG Response to COVID-19 and the Cares Act Fraud- Investigations in a Pandemic Environment

 Date:  March 8, 2021

 Start Time: 6:00

 Duration: 1 hour

 CPE amount: 1

 Field of study: Accounting

 Speaker Name: James P. Ryan, Special Agent with the Department of Defense

 Session Description:  This briefing will review the Investigative Mission of the Department of Defense Inspector General's Defense Criminal Investigative Service. The presentation will outline the DCIS mission in Procurement Fraud, Corruption, Health Care Fraud (Tricare), Product Substitution, and Cyber Investigations. It will discuss traditional investigations and the trends of new investigations pursuant to the Pandemic.

 Speaker Biography:

James P. Ryan is a Special Agent with the Department of Defense – Office of the Inspector General (“DoDIG”), Defense Criminal Investigative Service (“DCIS”) in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been a Special Agent with DCIS for over eight years, working cases ranging from Corruption, Violations of the Civil False Claims Act, Cyber Data Breaches, Identity Theft, Health Care Fraud, Wire Fraud, Extortion, Money Laundering, and Conflicts of Interest. Prior to working for DCIS, he was a Special Agent with Army Criminal Investigation Command (CIDC), Major Procurement Fraud Unit, (MPFU) from August 2009 to November 2012. During his time at CID MPFU, he deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan to work on the International Contract Corruption Task Force (ICCTF). From 2003-2009, he was an Auditor with the U.S. Army Audit Agency. SA Ryan has Bachelor of Science in Accounting from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in Administration with a concentration in Information Resource Management from Central Michigan University. He holds professional accreditations as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Cyber Crime Investigator (3CI). SA Ryan is a certified Law Enforcement Instructor through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. SA Ryan is an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches online courses for the Criminal Justice Department in Technology in Criminal Justice and Cybercrime Investigations.

 

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Contact

Tara Shawver
570-208--5900 x 5455
tarashawver@kings.edu