Team
Scott Moritz
President
Scott Moritz is the president of White Collar Forensic LLC. Based in the New York City Metropolitan area with expertise in performing assignments throughout the U.S. and extensive cross-border experience, he performs complex investigations of white collar crime, corruption and money laundering from inception through to pursuing avenues of financial recovery and the performance of root cause analysis. He has compliance and investigative domain expertise in anti-bribery and corruption, ethics & compliance, anti-money laundering and fraud risk management. Clients value Mr. Moritz’ expertise and his ability to act as “general contractor” overseeing large teams and complementary workstreams of eDiscovery, computer forensics, forensic data analysis, technical accounting, expert testimony, surveillance, witness interviews, cyber incident response, executive protection and crisis management practitioners.
Leslie Alessandra
Investigator
Leslie Alessandra is an investigator with White Collar Forensic LLC. She is recognized for her ability to lead complex investigations and build innovative business solutions. As a former FBI agent, she directed high-stakes cases in counterintelligence, transnational organized crime, and domestic terrorism. She was also a member of the exclusive FBI Art Crime Team. Her career highlights include dismantling WMD smuggling networks, recovering a stolen $3 million Matisse painting, extraditing a high-ranking Mexican politician for narco-corruption, and arresting foreign nationals acting as illegal agents of a foreign government.
Beyond her government service, Ms. Alessandra has demonstrated equal success as an entrepreneur and business leader. She has founded and managed companies in consulting, investigations, construction, and technology, building and leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver results for corporate and high-net-worth clients. Her pioneering spirit led her to launch the first real estate property sale in the United States as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), establishing an international proof of concept for blockchain use in real estate.
Fluent in Spanish, she has extensive international experience across Latin America and Europe, frequently serving in U.S. embassies in the Dominican Republic, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. She is certified in undercover and counterintelligence operations, with expertise in human source development, dark web investigations, and cryptocurrency tracing. Her decisive action and strategic leadership have earned commendations from the U.S. Ambassador to Peru and senior FBI leadership.
Taylor Mike Belcher
Investigator
Taylor “Mike” Belcher is a bilingual investigator with White Collar Forensic who specializes in investigations in Mexico and Brazil. Prior to his current role, Mike served for 11 years as Vice President & Regional Security Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Goldman Sachs & Co. where he was responsible for security issues affecting the company, to include physical security, crisis management, fire & life safety, executive protection and travel security. Between 1975 and 1999, Mike was an Operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency with extensive experience in Latin America and Europe. While at CIA, he was a founding member its Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) and served as Chief of Operations – Liaison with U.S. Federal, State and local Law Enforcement Agencies. He received his M.A. in Latin American Studies from Indiana University at Bloomington and his B.A. from Castleton State College in Vermont. He has lived and worked in Mexico, Scotland, Cyprus, Canada, Lebanon, France, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. He is a member of the Central Intelligence Retiree Association (CIRA), Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).
AJ Bosco
Compliance Advisor
A.J. Bosco’s is an ethics & compliance advisor with White Collar Forensic LLC based in New York. His professional background and experience are unusually diverse. He has served as a prosecutor, regulator, in-house attorney at multi-national financial services institutions and as a corporate consultant with a leading forensic accounting and advisory firm. A.J. has an intimate knowledge of how financial institutions work. A.J. has legal, compliance and regulatory experience across many sectors of the financial services industry, including corporate and investment banking, retail brokerage, ratings agencies and consumer services. In addition, A.J. advises on anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions, financial operations, and risk controls, licensing and other regulatory and compliance issues.
Ingrid Busson-Hall
Investigator
Ms. Busson-Hall is an experienced investigator and change management advisor with White Collar Forensic LLC based in New York. She has over 20 years of experience advising clients across the financial services industry, including senior leadership roles at PayPal, Morgan Stanley, Credit Agricole, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. She has extensive cross-border experience leading investigations, due diligence, and providing strategic change management advice with a long track record of navigating government regulations and enforcement priorities. Ms. Busson-Hall is a subject matter expert in financial crimes prevention and identification, including anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery, cybersecurity and fraud. She has also led sensitive employee conduct investigations and established policy frameworks to address sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and workplace violence. Clients value Ms. Busson-Hall’s integrity, diligence, and operational dexterity.
Stef Casella
Testifying Expert
Stef Casella is a Testifying Expert with White Collar Forensic LLC. As a federal prosecutor, Stefan D. Cassella was one of the federal government’s leading experts on asset forfeiture and money laundering law for over thirty years. He now serves as an expert witness and consultant to law enforcement agencies and the private sector . As a Deputy Chief of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and later as the Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Cassella litigated some of the Government’s most significant forfeiture and money laundering cases and drafted many of the federal forfeiture and money laundering statutes.
Kevin Cearlock
Investigator and Intellectual Property Protection Advisor
Kevin Cearlock is a bilingual (Chinese) Intellectual Property (IP) Protection Advisor and investigator with White Collar Forensic based in Virginia. Kevin has extensive experience in the establishment and development of corporate IP protection programs from his over 11-year association with General Electric Company (GE). Kevin has conducted hundreds of IP protection investigations in all parts of the globe involving healthcare, power generation/transmission, energy exploration, and aviation technologies. Kevin previously served as an FBI Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent for 24 years with diverse assignments in violent crime, organized crime, and counterintelligence. Kevin was trained to conduct interviews/investigations in Mandarin Chinese and was a program manager in the FBIHQ Unit tasked with countering foreign government-backed efforts to acquire US trade secret information (Economic Espionage).
Dan Dorsky
Investigator and Compliance Advisor
Dan Dorsky is an investigator and Compliance Advisor with White Collar Forensic LLC in New Jersey. He served with the U.S. Department of Justice and as Chief Compliance Officer of an S&P 500 firm. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney with both the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York, Dan was awarded two prestigious Director’s Awards for Superior Performance. While with the DOJ, Dan led large investigations culminating in prosecutions of a variety of white collar cases in addition to making material contributions to the effort to dismantle organized crime. In the corporate world Dan played a leading role in developing a renowned FCPA program which resulted in successful DOJ and SEC settlements that prominently featured a Non-Prosecution agreement and no monitor. As the Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of an S&P 500 company, Dan additionally favorably resolved the company’s three-year period of self-reporting to the DOJ under an FCPA settlement. Dan also served as a Principal with a consulting firm, leading its Anti-Corruption and Ethics practice.
Dan’s twenty-five year combined background with the DOJ, as a CCO, and as one who navigated companies under DOJ oversight places him among a select group of individuals – those who have years of first-hand, high-level, in-the-trenches experience on both sides of the aisle – enabling him to provide leading advice and assistance to companies and individuals as they navigate a demanding regulatory corruption climate. Dan’s broad experience in a variety of contexts positions him to assist with investigations, program effectiveness, due diligence, training, policies and procedures, risk analysis, conflicts of interest and promoting an ethical culture.
Kevin Doyle
Certified Fraud Examiner
Kevin Doyle is a Forensic Accountant with White Collar Forensic. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), is certified in Financial Forensic (CFF) and is a Charted Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He has over forty years of auditing, tax and consulting experience including twenty years of performing forensic investigations. Kevin specializes in examining financial records, identifying discrepancies, and presenting evidence to support legal actions and insurance recovery. His background provides the unique opportunity to uncover and quantify fraud losses and recommend internal control improvements to mitigate future malfeasances. He has a proven track record of assisting law enforcement agencies that has resulted in arrests and convictions. He has led numerous worldwide investigations including FCPA, potential money laundering, SDN/OFAC, commercial bribery, conflicts of interest, procurement scams, cash theft, books and records fraud, expense report fraud, affinity points scams, resulting in recovery of millions of dollars of losses. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and hold certificates of the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation.
Tim Dunfey
AML Compliance Advisor
Tim is an attorney by training, consultant and expert witness with White Collar Forensic. He focuses on consumer issues, financial crime and fraud within the financial services industry. He provides strategic and advisory services to Boards and senior management, drafts regulatory communication and develops action plans to address regulatory concerns. He has managed audits, risk assessments and program improvements at numerous types of institutions and has working knowledge of both digital assets and artificial intelligence for financial institutions. His clients value his knowledge of both the regulatory requirements and operational processes across a wide range of products and services as well as his ability to create and implement successful remediation plans by establishing realistic timelines and creating a team atmosphere
Chris Favo
Investigator
Chris Favo is a compliance investigator and attorney by training with White Collar Forensic LLC based near Pittsburgh, PA . Mr. Favo has substantial experience conducting investigations and implementing compliance programs nationally and internationally. His FBI experience includes significant investigations of investment fraud, organized crime, and corporate fraud including serving three years on the Enron Task Force. Mr. Favo worked an additional decade in the private sector in roles from Compliance Attorney to Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies where he managed compliance and investigation teams. His experience includes designing and implementing all aspects of compliance programs as well as leading investigations of internal theft and fraud as well as anti-bribery and accounting frauds. Mr. Favo has earned significant awards from the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI and received high ratings and promotions in his corporate work. Mr. Favo has spoken on investigations and compliance for corporate groups, educational institutions, and law enforcement, and is an adjunct professor in a law school compliance certificate program.
Kim Frisinger
Investigator
Kim is a highly experienced investigator and financial crimes subject matter expert with White Collar Forensic based in Hong Kong. He has worked in international investigations and intelligence gathering for over 30 years. The majority of this experience focused on financial crime, with more than 20 years’ attained in Hong Kong. Kim’s most recent position was as Head of Financial Crimes APAC at Citibank’s Corporate and Investment Bank where he also led the global rollout of a new data analytics capability related to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT). Kim was responsible for client vetting and intelligence gathering activities, and the coordination of these initiatives with other regions. He is a subject matter expert in AML/CFT. Kim began his career as a Special Agent in the FBI where he became an expert on organized crime and financial crime working out of the FBI’s New York City office. Kim subsequently joined the Chase Manhattan Bank and had senior assignments in New York, London, Germany, and Hong Kong where he served as the regional APAC CFO. After Chase, he began his consulting career, including senior positions at JFK Consulting in France, Hill & Associates (principal), Control Risks Group and Kinetic Partners.
Rudy Gerlich
Compliance Advisor
Rudy is a Compliance Advisor and Risk Management professional with White Collar Forensic in New York. He has over 30 years of providing legal and compliance advice to firms in the financial services industry and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. He has served as an Assistant Director with the SEC Enforcement Division in Washington D.C. and has had roles as Deputy General Counsel and Counsel to the Americas Head of Compliance at major global financial institutions.
Rudy has extensive experience in dealing with control and process issues affecting firms’ compliance with federal securities and banking regulations. His areas of expertise include: Risk Assessment, Identification and Management; Financial Fraud Investigations; Regulatory Compliance; Operations and Technology Risk Management; Internal Controls and Procedures; Risk and Control Issue Resolution and Legal Risk Management
James "Jim" Gibson
Forensic Accountant
Jim Gibson is an experienced forensic accountant and investigator with White Collar Forensic based in Chicago. Jim has over 30 years of experience in accounting, auditing and leading investigations. Jim’s major industry concentrations include manufacturing, wholesale distribution and consumer packaged goods companies. Jim is a CPA and is Certified in Financial Forensics. Following the completion of many of the investigations Jim has led, he (and his team) were engaged by the client to assist with designing policy, procedures and controls to prevent future occurrences from happening. Jim has also led large scale, complex account reconciliation and financial statement restatement projects.
Odell Guyton
Ethics & Compliance Advisor
Mr. Odell Guyton is a certified compliance and ethics professional with White Collar Forensic. He is highly regarded in the compliance and ethics fields as an industry leader and a valuable resource in designing, implementing, and managing effective corporate governance and compliance programs for multi-national organizations. He mentors compliance and ethics professionals on the practical implementation of anti-corruption/anti-bribery compliance measures, effective compliance operations and the administration of 3rd party due diligence compliance. He is highly skilled in matters before regulatory authorities, white-collar criminal defense, complex litigation, litigation support, corporate governance, 3rd-Party risk management, M&A due diligence, corporate investigations, and compliance consulting. He has deep experience regarding global manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and university systems compliance and investigation matters. Mr. Guyton is a former Corporate Vice President, Head of Legal and Global Compliance for Jabil Circuit, Inc. and a former Assistant General Counsel and the Director of Legal Compliance for the Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington.
Emma Hamilton
Forensic Researcher
Emma Hamilton is a Forensic Researcher at White Collar Forensic LLC based in London. She has six years of experience working with expert witnesses, undertaking quantitative and qualitative analysis to provide compelling evidence to support expert argument. She has developed long-standing working relationships with Anti Money Laundering and Central Banking experts. She is skilled at sourcing data, particularly banking-related, and undertaking appropriate analysis, including statistical and bank-statement analysis utilising software, or targeted analysis of relevant reports. She also has years of experience working on academic journals and brings this attention to detail to writing and editing reports. She has two masters: in political science and in economics.
Ed Herbst
Forensic Accountant / Investigator
Ed is an investigator and forensic accountant with White Collar Forensic working from the Washington, DC area. He leads investigations, compliance, and risk assessments as including enterprise (FCPA, EAR, ITAR), fraud and security risk assessments, major fraud investigations; international FCPA investigations. He has led executive and audit committee briefs and provided reporting guidance and presented issues with government regulators and prosecutors. His major private sector engagements have included investigations of improper revenue recognition, healthcare fraud, fraud against the government, ITAR and Arms Export Control Act violations, and insider threats. He also advised organizations and government agencies on regulatory compliance and internal controls. Ed recently retired from Ernst & Young’s Forensic and Integrity Services practice where he was a managing director for over 11 years. Prior to that, Ed served as an FBI Special Agent, Supervisory Special Agent and Assistant Special Agent in Charge in a career with the FBI spanning over 27 years. He is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner and certified financial forensics.
Jonathan Holden
Investigator / AML Specialist
Jonathan Holden is a bilingual (Spanish/English) investigator with White Collar Forensic LLC in California, specializing in corporate fraud, compliance, and cross border investigations. A Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist, he draws on 25 years of FBI experience leading multi jurisdictional cases in money laundering, terrorist financing (AML/CFT), fraud, corruption (FCPA/ABAC), export control, and OFAC matters. Jonathan advises clients on compliance with global regulatory bodies including FATF, UN, SEC, GAFILAT, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and DOJ. With eight years living and working in Latin America and extensive international assignments across Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S., he offers proven expertise in high level government liaison, sensitive investigations, and designing compliance focused investigative processes.
Barry Koch
AML Expert Witness
Barry Koch is an AML Expert Witness at White Collar Forensic with additional compliance domain expertise in anti-bribery and corruption and ethics and compliance. He is an experienced international financial crimes compliance leader (former CCO and Chief Counsel), having successfully managed global teams of 2,000+ professionals for financial institutions conducting regulated businesses in 200+ countries and territories, in 100+ currencies, in 70 languages. Subject matter expert in BSA/AML, Sanctions (OFAC), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (including FCPA). Former prosecutor. Former member of the Supervisory Board of a European-regulated bank. Co-Founder of the Bankers’ Alliance Against Human Trafficking. Effective AML and Compliance training delivered to financial industry, law enforcement, diplomatic and intelligence communities, legislators, regulators and FIUs around the world. Adjunct law professor, teaching “Global Corporate Compliance” to 2L, 3L and LLM students.
Patrick T. Kramer
Investigator
Patrick Kramer is a trilingual investigator (Spanish/Portuguese/English) with White Collar Forensic LLC with extensive experience working on matters in Brazil and throughout Latin America. He focuses on complex financial crimes with expertise in investigating health care fraud, mortgage fraud, international corruption/ foreign bribery (FCPA), and money laundering investigations. He collaborates with clients and other stakeholders across various industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, insurance, financial services, technology, legal, regulatory compliance, U.S./foreign federal courts and prosecutors, foreign governments, foreign law enforcement partners, intelligence community, as well as state/local governments both foreign and domestically. Prior to affiliating with White Collar Forensic, Patrick distinguished himself as a highly accomplished law enforcement specialist serving 20 years with the FBI as a Special Agent, Supervisory Special Agent, and Assistant Legal Attaché with a proven record of optimizing performance, mitigating risk, leading successful investigations, resolving complex cases, and serving as a consultant to senior officers, government officials and foreign agencies.
Patrick possesses extensive overseas experience working in Latin America with a comprehensive understanding, firsthand knowledge, and familiarity of operating in Brazil while leveraging his professional contacts to create positive outcomes for client engagements. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
John Kula
Certified Fraud Examiner
John Kula is a Certified Fraud Examiner with White Collar Forensic in Chicago. With more than 30 years of law enforcement, investigative, corporate security, and data analytics experience, he has led investigative and risk mitigation engagements on the ground in the US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, the Philippines, India, Korea, Hong Kong, and China, and has supervised complex investigations in numerous additional locations. John’s career has included investigations into internal and external fraud and organizational corruption; integrity and FCPA related due diligence; asset tracing; and using advanced data analytics technology to identify red flag indicators of fraud,
conflicts of interest, related party transactions, ghost vendors and employees, bribery, kickbacks, and corruption compliance problems.
Erin Marshall
Investigator
Erin Marshall is a bilingual (Spanish) investigator with White Collar Forensic in New Jersey. She has two decades of experience investigating complex matters with advanced experience in South American transnational organized crime groups. As a former FBI crisis negotiator, Ms. Marshall pairs strong traditional investigative skills with engagement techniques based in behavioral and motivation analysis. She has served as a successful trial consultant and attorney/client liaison for clients facing extreme consequences in situations involving corruption and retribution. Ms. Marshall has conducted due diligence reviews, litigation support, and incident-specific assessments for a Fortune 500 client. Ms. Marshall excels in providing detailed “eyes-and-ears” written reports to clients, and in identifying and reaching pragmatic solutions for a broad spectrum of challenges.
Patti McKeown
AML Compliance Advisor
Patti McKeown is an experienced senior regulatory compliance leader at White Collar Forensic combining years of anti-financial crime consulting with an extensive background in retail banking and operations. She specializes in global and country-specific anti-money laundering (AML) compliance services for various types and sizes of financial institutions globally, often as the result of regulatory enforcement actions. She works with boards of directors, senior managers, and other key personnel to develop, enhance, and remediate AML compliance programs providing reasonable, practical, and sustainable solutions. She possesses strong management, leadership, communication, and mentoring skills and she is able to drive results in a high stress, fast-paced environment.
Kevin McLaughlin
Forensic Accountant
Kevin McLaughlin is a highly experienced financial investigator with White Collar Forensic LLC based in New York. He has a long career of investigative, forensic accounting, AML consulting and compliance experience in the public and private sectors, conducting investigations and providing guidance in complex financial and fraud investigations. Prior to entering the private sector, he was an IRS-Criminal Investigation, Special Agent for 30 years, in the New York area, specializing in complex money laundering, asset forfeiture and criminal tax investigations. Kevin has participated in hundreds of financial investigations and complex litigation matters involving fraud, money laundering, criminal tax, other financial crimes and AML remediation and consulting projects.
Jon Schofield
Investigator / Certified Fraud Examiner
Jon Schofield is an investigator with White Collar Forensic LLC, based in the Washington, DC metro area. He worked in the Inspectors General community for more than two decades, serving as special agent, assistant special agent in charge, and, for the last eight years of his federal career, special agent in charge (SAC). Jon spent much of his career with the US Agency for International Development, and as SAC ran investigations, operations, outreach, and initiatives in Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Jon then continued to lead top tier teams by directing the internal investigations unit at a top 10 bank, managing hundreds of policy, code of conduct, and fraud cases while enhancing his team’s capabilities, systems, and procedures. Deeply experienced in external fraud investigations, sensitive employee integrity investigations, and organizational risk assessments, Jon has provided counter fraud training to thousands of feds, corporate staff, contractors, and foreign officials around the world. He has lived in Europe, Asia, and South America and worked in dozens of countries. Jon is a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and was honored to be awarded the PCIE Career Achievement Award before leaving federal service.
Tanya Shelburne
Investigator
Tanya is a multilingual investigator with White Collar Forensic LLC in Los Angeles. With over 33 years of private and public sector experience, Tanya is one of the leading experts in the field of investigative due diligence. She began her career at Kroll in NY, and eventually ran the Business Intelligence Services practice at Deloitte in Los Angeles. In 2009 she was hired into the US Intelligence Community (USIC) to institutionalize and lead a robust investigative due diligence program, which is now leveraged across several USIC entities. Given her international background and fluency in French and Spanish, she has been all over the globe, working on complex assignments ranging from asset, fraud, FCPA, and AML investigations, to more recently, providing critical insight and support to policy makers in support of US foreign policy activities and operations. Tanya is a believer in the servant leadership philosophy and as such is often leveraged to teach, build, and run teams of due diligence professionals. That said, because she is passionate about staying abreast of investigative resources, she also maintains a high degree of proficiency in conducting research. Given the FCRA and other privacy requirements involved in investigations, she recently obtained her CIPP/US certification which she hopes to leverage with potential clients looking to shore up their privacy programs.
Deb Tabacco
Business Operations and Compliance Advisor
Deb is a Business Operations and Compliance Advisor with White Collar Forensic. Deb blends a track record of actionable approaches with Big Four know-how, to simplify, standardize and streamline your end-to-end business processes and IT needs, resulting in investment objective acceleration.
Deb delivers IT leadership that achieves the following objectives: Data-Driven Customer and Business Performance Insights, Continuous Improvement and Derived Quality from IT, Regulatory Compliance and IT Audits, Sustainable, Scalable, Global Growth, M&A, IPO Readiness, IT Cost Control, Capital-Efficient IT Budgets, Rationalized IT Inventories and Project Portfolios, Prioritized ROI and Business Transformation.
Patty Tehrani
Ethics & Compliance Advisor
Patty Tehrani is an ethics & compliance advisor with White Collar Forensic LLC based in New York. Patty has over 20 years of experience in legal compliance, including senior in-house roles at top financial institutions, authoring articles and blogs, and compliance consulting engagements. As an experienced regulatory compliance attorney, Patty has designed and maintained organizational internal controls and processes for complex and challenging regulatory requirements, demonstrating her comprehensive knowledge in the field. With a deep understanding of various regulatory requirements, Patty’s extensive subject-matter expertise has resulted in designing hundreds of tools and policies reflecting her commitment to delivering tailored, innovative, and practical solutions. Patty advises on regulatory compliance requirements, including compliance programs, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, cybersecurity, information security and data privacy, records management, and financial services regulations.
Diane Walker
Certified Fraud Examiner
Diane Walker is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Compliance Investigator and Program Advisor with White Collar Forensic LLC. She has over thirty years of experience performing internal and external investigations forensic accounting analyses of suspected employee and officer misconduct to include embezzlement, theft of equipment, inventory and raw materials, procurement fraud, vendor kickbacks schemes, payroll fraud, misuse of credit cards or p-cards, theft of intellectual property, bribery of public officials and commercial bribery. She also has extensive experience in the evaluation and remediation of compliance programs to include those requiring domain expertise in anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering and fraud risk management. She also has experience in providing insurance proof of loss support to include performing investigations, claims preparation and support of fidelity, D&O and general liability insurance claims.
Bob Westbrooks
Investigator / Anti-Corruption Expert
Bob Westbrooks is an investigator and anti-corruption subject matter expert with White Collar Forensic based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. He is a recognized counter fraud and anti-corruption expert. He is a former federal Inspector General and chief audit executive with over 30 years of public sector-program integrity experience (including 20 years as a federal criminal investigator). In September 2024, Bob was appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine—based on the nomination of the U.S. State Department—to serve as an international anti-corruption expert on the audit commission of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (“NABU”), where he led first-of-its-kind independent, external evaluation of the NABU’s effectiveness in combating high-level, systemic corruption. Prior to this appointment, Bob served as an expert consultant to the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine. During the national pandemic emergency of 2020-2022, Bob served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (“PRAC”), where he was responsible for conducting and coordinating independent oversight of $5 trillion in U.S. COVID relief spending. Bob previously served as Inspector General of the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from 2015-2020, where he helped protect the pensions of 35 million American workers, retirees, and families through criminal investigations and performance audits. Prior to this appointment, Bob served in leadership positions in four federal OIGs. From 2013-2015, Bob served as Deputy Inspector General and head of audit at the U.S. Small Business Administration. A licensed attorney, CPA, and CIA, Bob is the author of Left Holding the Bag: How Washington Fumbled its COVID Test, a 2023 Global Book Silver Award winner and #1 Amazon Best Seller in Corruption & Misconduct in Politics. Bob’s practice is focused on providing informed and practical insights to domestic and international clients on hardening defenses and responding to emerging threats.