Upcoming Events and Events Calendar
Regular Chapter luncheon meetings are held at The Turnip Rose, Orange, CA every other month.
Scheduled meeting dates for 2010:
- To be advised
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Current Event
THE ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINERS - ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER and ISACA, ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER Jointly invites you to our 2010 annual joint session.
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Time: 8 hours of Continuing Professional Education Credit ( Includes: Continental breakfast, lunch and catered breaks, Raffle prizes throughout the day )
Registration begins at 7:45 AM
Location: The City Club
Orange County Medical Association Building
300 South Flower Street
Orange, CA 92868
Fee: $99.00
Includes: Complimentary Parking for All
TOPIC:
- Fraud in Southern California: What is Happening Today?
- Business Ethics & Corporate Governance
- Corporate Investigations & Security
- Investigating in Cyberspace: Emerging Issues with Digital Evidence
GUEST SPEAKERS:
- Elizabeth Henderson, Supervising Attorney of the Major Fraud Unit, Orange County District Attorney's office.
- Scott Weitzman, CPA, CFE, Senior Forensic Accountant, Orange County District Attorney's office.
- Professor Tibor Machan, PH.D, Professor of Business Ethics & Free Enterprise, Chapman University, Orange, California.
- Charles Balot, CEO, Online Security.
- Michael Tashman, VP, Business Development, Online Security.
- Sergio D. Kopelev, CFCE, EnCE, Principal, LECG.
SPEAKER BIO:
Elizabeth Henderson. Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Henderson is the Supervising Attorney of the Major Fraud Unit of the Orange County District Attorney's Office and supervises the Major Fraud, High Tech Crime, White Collar Crime Team, Real Estate Fraud and Insurance Fraud Units. She has been a member of the Orange County District Attorney's Office since 1988 and has prosecuted a wide variety of cases including homicides, gang crimes, domestic violence, child abuse, major frauds and other felonies. She has tried over 100 jury trials. She graduated from Western State University Law School, Fullerton, California in 1988. Ms. Henderson has received awards for her prosecution work, including the OCDA Outstanding Trial Attorney (1995), and the Victim Witness Appreciation Award (2002). She sat as a member various advisory boards including the Orange County Child Death Review Team, the United States Marine Corps Family Advocacy Board, Orange County Superior Court Community Focused Planning Committee, the Access to Courts Committee and the Family Violence Council. She has written or contributed to training publications by the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) including domestic violence, child death prosecution, admissibility of evidence of prior bad acts and prosecution of insurance fraud and identity theft crimes. As a member of the Orange County Bar Association Access to the Courts Committee, she co-authored a pamphlet on disabilities that was distributed to superior court judges around the state. She regularly teaches other district attorneys around the state through the California District Attorneys Association and is involved in an ongoing training program for fraud detectives in Orange County (OC Fraud Cops). She is an instructor at the Orange County Sheriff's Advanced Academy on the topics of homicide law, domestic violence and physical child abuse. She speaks regularly to community groups on the topic of fraud crimes and has made statewide presentations to law enforcement groups on the topic of white collar crime and identity theft.
Scott J. Weitzman, CPA, CFE. Mr. Weitzman is Senior Forensic Accountant with the Orange County District Attorney's Office. He is assigned to the Major Fraud Unit where he analyzes financial records, traces funds and testifies as an expert witness in criminal matters. Scott has worked on more than 150 criminal cases involving embezzlements, investment fraud, real estate fraud, income tax fraud, bribery and homicide. He has testified more than 55 times in Federal Court, California Superior and Municipal Courts, Arizona Superior Court, Orange County Grand Jury, deposition and arbitration. Scott has regularly been an instructor on forensic accounting and testifying. He is a CPA, CFE and is past president of the Orange County Chapter of the ACFE.
Tibor (Teebor McCann) R. Machan, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, AL, holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, CA. He is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, CA. Machan is a syndicated and free lance columnist, author of 35 books-most recently, The Morality of Business: A Profession for Human Wealth-Care (Springer, 2007)-editor of 20+ others and has written over hundred scholarly papers some of them now featured in various philosophy readers (including "A Brief Defense of Free Will," "The Non-existence of Welfare Rights," and "Do Animals Have Rights?"). Hoover Institution Press has published 10 volumes in the series, Philosophical Reflections on a Free Society, which Machan has edited. Machan was visiting professor at the US Military Academy, West Point, 1992-93. He edited Reason magazine for two years and Reason Papers, an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for its first 25 years. He lectures in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, the Republic of Georgia, and Latin America on business ethics and political philosophy. He has appeared on the late Bill Buckley's Firing Line, more recently on PBS-TV's Religion and Ethics in America and Life & Styles, John Stossel's John Stossel Goes to Washington, and on numerous other media around the globe. His memoir, titled A Man Without a Hobby, was published in 2004. His web site may be found at www.tibikem.spaces.live.com/default.aspx. Freedom News Wire syndicates his columns.
Charles Balot, CEO, Online Security. Mr. Balot founded Online Security in 1997 and was one of the early pioneers in the practice of computer forensics. The company, under Mr. Balot's management, has grown into one of the preeminent digital evidence discovery firms, applying cutting-edge technologies in its various practice areas. Mr. Balot is a hands-on executive, overseeing each matter on a day-to-day basis. With his finger to the pulse of the new trends in computer forensics, Mr. Balot spearheads the company's marketing efforts and directs Online Security's partnerships and strategic alliances. Mr. Balot began his foray into the computer industry in 1987 by providing network integration services in both the legal and corporate community.
Michael Tashman, VP of Business Development, Online Security. Mr. Tashman has been providing technology solutions to the legal and corporate business communities since 1986. Initially focused on the design and implementation of local and wide area network systems, he has steadily progressed and gained experience in business focused vertical systems and applications such as large-scale Enterprise Storage Systems, Enterprise Network Management Applications, and Information Security solutions. Over the last seven years he has been responsible for business development within Online Security's Computer Forensics practice including the education of the firm's legal clientele and the establishment of a partner network spanning the globe. Mr. Tashman believes that successful client solutions emanate from a fundamental understanding of both the client's business and the legal ramifications of the matter at hand. This philosophy has driven a successful history of long-term business relationships and significantly contributed to the establishment of Online Security as a leader in the industry.
Mr. Kopelev, CFCE, EnCE is a Principal in LECG's Costa Mesa office. Prior to coming to LECG, he was a Director and regional practice leader with a Big 4 accounting firm. Mr. Kopelev has an extensive base of experience in the forensic examination of digital evidence and in the investigation of high technology security issues, such as technology fraud, theft of services and network intrusions. He has been interviewed on CNN, National Public Radio and by the Los Angeles Times newspaper as an industry expert in computer forensics and in the tracing of email communications. Prior to transitioning to the private sector, Mr. Kopelev was a Sergeant with the Bedford County, Virginia, Sheriff's Department, where he developed and supervised "Operation Blue Ridge Thunder," a multi-agency Internet Crimes taskforce. Through his work on the task force, Mr. Kopelev became a recognized expert in the development and implementation of innovative high-tech investigation and enforcement strategies, and was heralded as "a pioneer cyber-cop," by the Washington Times newspaper
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT INFORMATION
Please RSVP as soon as possible. To ensure that we have accurate estimates of attendance, we must receive your RSVP no later than September 10, 2010. Please mail in your RSVP and payment, and email notice of your RSVP to Bob Oduguwa at boduguwa@aol.com.
Please make checks are payable to: OCACFE. Please do not mail us cash.
Mail your RSVP and payment to:
OCACFE
P.O. Box 14501
Irvine, CA 92623-4501
We prefer that you mail in your payment. If you do not, you can make payment by cash or check at the Registration Desk at the meeting. If you do pay in cash, please try to bring exact change.
If you need further assistance with your RSVP, please contact Bob Oduguwa at:
(714) 322-5869 or boduguwa@aol.com
