Hello ACFE Arizona Chapter Members & Guests:

Our next training seminar will be featuring Detective = Mike Leavene’s one on one investigation of a fraudulent attorney and a fraudulent contractor.

The first case to be discussed will be “The Case= of a Fraudulent Attorney.” C= ome and find out how a disbarred attorney from the State of Vermont set up shop here in Maric= opa County convincing o= ver 300 victims to pay him over $1.2 million, when in fact they had no attorney representing them at all. Lit= tle known to his victim’s, they were actually “representing themselves”.

Mike’s second topic will be “The Case of t= he Fraudulent Contractor” which uncovered the use of several Arizona contractor licenses and Arizona driver’s licenses obtain= ed under false identities. This = case has a fraudulent bankruptcy proceeding in Federal Court and false claims in= a major civil litigation involving the financial institution that was financi= ng the building of the hotel. Th= e City of Glendale was also being defrauded of over $20,000 in building permits.

&n= bsp; BIO: Mike Leavene has a Bachelor of Sci= ence Degree in Criminal Justice from Truman State University (NMSU). He also has over 38 years civilian= and military law enforcement experience. Mike was a Sergeant/E-5 and a Patrol Supervisor in the United States Military Police Corps. Mike w= orked for the Missouri State Highway Patrol in both rural and metropolitan areas = for 27 years.

In 1977 Mike enlisted in th= e United States Army Reserves and was accredited as a Special Agent in the United St= ates Army Criminal Investigation Command, advancing to Chief Warrant Officer Two. With both international = and domestic assignments, he is experienced with a wide range of investigators, from crimes against persons to fraud.

Mike worked for the State of Arizona Registrar of Contractors as a criminal and civil investigator advan= cing to Chief of Investigations.

Currently employed as a det= ective with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Mike was placed on special assignment to the Special Crimes Bureau.

Mike is the Past President = of the National Construction Investigator’s Association, a member of the National Association of Bunco Investigator’s, The Missouri State Trooper’s Assoc., Missouri Peace Officer’s Assoc., US Army CID = Agent’s Assoc., American Legion, and the Military Officer’s Assoc. of America= .

Come join us on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at the Arizona Industrial<= /st1:PlaceName> Commission Building, 800 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 5^th floor in the Arizona Department of Liquor License and Control hearing room. Sign-in and networking is from 11:30 &#= 8211; 12:00 noon. Mike’s seminar is from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Parking will be on the top level of the garage just west of the building.

He has been described as “fascinating”. Get there early. The last seminar= had standing room only!

See you!

Lois A. Folk, CFE, CPA

ACFE Arizona Chapter President

(480) 502-3638

lfolk@cox.net

ACFE Arizona Chapter Website: www.cfe-arizona.org