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The Three Million Dollar Ribbon

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$79.00 Regular Registration
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$109.00 Regular Registration
This course is being offered on multiple dates, listed below. Click the Register button next to your preferred date to register.
 Sat, 06/28/2025 from 11:00 am to 12:53 pm
 Mon, 07/14/2025 from 4:00 pm to 5:53 pm
 Wed, 07/30/2025 from 10:00 am to 11:53 am
 Mon, 08/11/2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:53 pm
 Tue, 08/26/2025 from 7:00 pm to 8:53 pm
 Thu, 09/11/2025 from 4:00 pm to 5:53 pm
 Fri, 09/26/2025 from 10:00 am to 11:53 am
 Fri, 10/03/2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:53 pm
 Sat, 10/25/2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:53 pm
 Tue, 10/28/2025 from 2:00 pm to 3:53 pm
 Tue, 11/11/2025 from 4:00 pm to 5:53 pm
 Mon, 11/17/2025 from 10:00 am to 11:53 am
 Wed, 12/10/2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:53 pm
Designed For:

Finance management, business management, bookkeepers, accountants, grant management, Auditors, fraud examiners

Prerequisite:

None

Two conmen used lies and falsified documents to convince the State of Tennessee to give them a $3,000,000 economic development grant to create 1,000 jobs by purchasing and rehabilitating a vacant factory in rural Tennessee. Instead, they spent most of the money on an extravagant lifestyle and invested over $1M in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) out of over $30,000,000 pursuant to a contract to provide the tarps for areas such as Puerto Rico, affected by hurricanes. This session provides a detailed case study of how the investigators accumulated, organized, and analyzed hundreds of documents, identified the falsifications and misrepresentations, conducted multiple interviews, and ultimately convicted the conmen. This case study provides multiple takeaways for detecting and investigating grant fraud, which is especially relevant in light of the numerous federal stimulus programs in recent years.

Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Accounting, Auditing
Program Level: Intermediate

Sponsors

For Technical Support: 
Please contact the ACPEN Help Desk at (877) 602-9877, [email protected]   or visit https://vscpa.acpen.com/Support/. The Help Desk is available by phone 24/7, 365 days a year. Allow 1 business day for email

Objectives

  • Learn the relationship between the three elements of fraud and how fraudsters think
  • Understand how internal controls prevent fraud
  • Learn the red flags to look for to identify fraud
  • Learn to investigate fraud

Speakers

Advanced Preparation

None

Vendor

The Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: NASBARegistry.org.

For more information regarding refund, complaint, program cancellation or other policies, visit our Registration Policies page or call (800) 733-8272.