Fraud Investigation & Reports

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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CPA, CFE, CIRA providing forensic accounting, fraud investigation, receivership, trustee, fiduciary, insolvency, trustee-support, asset tracing, tax/accounting reconstruction, and expert-witness services Retired with 23 years of experience as Senior Fraud investigator and restructuring expert at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Trustee James is a experienced expert in civil litigation in federal court and bankruptcy court. He selected, appointed and trained the bankruptcy trustees in the District of Utah, audited and evaluated their performance and conducted onsite training with them and their staff on how to properly conduct examinations and investigations into bankruptcy-related crimes. James handled over 1000 cases during his tenure across over 300 unique industries helping businesses of all sizes reorganize in Chapter 11. He led the efforts to implement the bankruptcy reforms under the law change in 2004 by incorporating the IRM (Internal Revenue Manual) of the IRS into the means testing regime of the United States Trustee program. He testified for the plaintiff in over 300 matters over the course of his career at the DOJ. He crafted exhibits and summaries for use at trial, in depositions, and led discovery in 2004 examitions and depositions while working side by side with the trial attorneys, FBI, US Attorney, State and local law enforcement, and other regulatory agencies including the SEC, DOL, EPA, and state insurance commissioner and state securities division investigators, county sheriff department personnel, DMV, DOT, ATF, and others. James is an experienced expert and seasoned witness with a working knowledge of the rules of evidence, federal rules of civil and criminal procedure, bankruptcy, and tax law (trained annually for the past 23 years by the excellent staff at the US DoJ's National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina).