2019 Fraud Conference
 
Chuck Cohen
Managing Member
Cohen Training & Consulting, LLC.

Chuck Cohen's formal education includes a Master of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University with a double major in Criminal Justice in Psychology.  Chuck is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Economic Crime Forensic Examiner.


He is a Captain serving the Indiana State Police, where he has been employed since 1994. He is currently the Commander, Intelligence and Investigative Technologies. In this capacity, Capt. Cohen is responsible for the cybercrime, electronic surveillance, technical services, and Internet crimes against children units along with overseeing the department’s overt and covert criminal intelligence functions.  Chuck is the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center Executive Director and Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Commander.


Chuck speaks internationally on topics including the implications of online social networks in criminal investigations and criminal intelligence gathering, cybercrime, online fraud, money laundering, corruption investigations, and the investigation of skilled criminal offenders.  He has trained investigators and analysts on five continents. Chuck is an Adjunct Instructor at Indiana University Bloomington, where he teaches Foundations of Criminal Investigation. 

 

Chuck testified to the 114th Congress in 2016 as a subject matter expert on encryption.  Chuck was a member of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Summer Hard Problem Program in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The 2008 study topic was “3D Cyber Space Spillover: Where Virtual Worlds Get Real.”  The 2009 topic was “Mixed Reality: When Virtual Plus Real Equals One.”  And, in 2010, the topic was “Online Social Media.”


He sits on the IACP Cyber Crime & Digital Evidence Committee and serves as an Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies Cyber Crime Committee Subject Matter Expert.  Chuck is a charter member of the International Association of Cyber & Economic Crime Professionals.

 


 
Michael Dudley JD, LLM
Principal Deputy Director
United Nations Investigations, Division of New York


Michael Dudley is the Principal Deputy Director of the United Nations Investigation Division in New York. He has more than 25 years' experience in international legal and investigation matters, serving in the private sector and 4 different United Nations agencies. He has particular expertise in public procurement fraud, forensic interviewing and digital forensics.


Mr. Dudley holds a B.A. in Business Administration , a J.D., and an LL.M. in International  Business Legal Studies. 




 
Leonard W Vona CPA, CFE
Fraud Auditing, Inc.


Leonard W. Vona is the CEO of Fraud Auditing. He is a forensic accountant with more than 38 years of diversified auditing and forensic accounting experience, including a distinguished 18-year private industry career.  His firm advises clients in areas of litigation support, financial investigations, fraud detection and fraud prevention.

Mr. Vona is the author of three books published by Wiley, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program and The Fraud Audit: Responding to the Risk of Fraud in Core Business Systems, Fraud Data Analytics Methodology: The Fraud Scenario Approach to Uncovering Fraud.

Mr. Vona has successfully conducted more than 100 financial investigations and fraud auditing engagements for some of the largest high profile corporations in the United States.  The net result of his efforts has saved clients millions of dollars through recovery or defense strategies.  His financial investigation experience includes embezzlement, business disputes, asset theft, bribery & corruption, malpractice, and disbursement schemes.  Mr. Vona’s trial experience is extensive, including appearances in federal and state courts.  He is qualified as an expert witness, as a CPA and a CFE, and is cited in West Law for the successful use of circumstantial evidence. 

Mr. Vona lectures nationally and internationally on fraud risk assessments, fraud investigation, fraud prevention and detection, and fraud schemes perpetrated on companies.  He regularly speaks at audit conferences and has developed the Fraud Training Curriculum for the MIS Training Institute, an internationally recognized audit training organization.  Mr. Vona has provided more than 1,000 days of fraud training to organizations around the world.  He has been on the faculty of the National Association of Fraud Examiners and previously on the faculty of Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He has written the training course on Auditors Responsibility for Detecting Fraud – SAS99 used by CPA Societies across the country. His international training experience includes five continents and training through interpreters in the Spanish, Portuguese and Russian language.

 Mr. Vona graduated from Siena College with honors, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.  Mr. Vona is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  He was the 1994 President of the N.Y. Capital Chapter of the Association of Government Accountants and the founding President of the Albany Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners.