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  • Monday, June 18 | 3:35-4:50 PM


    Level: Advanced

    Recommended Prerequisite: None

    Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge

    This session will examine organized criminal behavior involving the use of shell companies, nontraditional money-service businesses (MSBs) and check-cashing stores to funnel construction-industry payroll undetected to cash-paid labor. You will leave the session with an understanding of how the scheme works, and how to detect, investigate and determine if an organization has become a victim.

    You Will Learn How To:

    • Determine the ways payroll can be funneled through shell companies and money-service businesses
    • Identify the skills needed to prevent organizations from falling victim to these schemes
    • Assess the broad effects these schemes have on your organization or clients, be it in the insurance, financial, construction or other industry
    • Examine practical examples of historical investigations to gain insight on how to identify and investigate these types of schemes
    • Recognize the magnitude of the problem and its effect on honest business and industry members, as well as the economy relative to government revenues
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    Geoffrey Branch, CFE

    Senior SIU Investigator, Swiss Reinsurance Corporate Solutions

    Geoffrey R. Branch is a Senior Investigator with the Special Investigations Unit of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions where he is responsible for external fraud investigations as well as serves as the Anti-Fraud Awareness Training Coordinator. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he spent twenty years as a law enforcement officer, sixteen of which with the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud, where he served in many capacities conducting, supervising, and managing criminal investigations for the Division. While with the Division, Branch specialized in complex white-collar crime investigations involving premium avoidance, money laundering, racketeering, and other organized financial crime schemes.

  • GBranch Headshot
    Geoffrey Branch, CFE

    Senior SIU Investigator, Swiss Reinsurance Corporate Solutions

    Geoffrey R. Branch is a Senior Investigator with the Special Investigations Unit of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions where he is responsible for external fraud investigations as well as serves as the Anti-Fraud Awareness Training Coordinator. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he spent twenty years as a law enforcement officer, sixteen of which with the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud, where he served in many capacities conducting, supervising, and managing criminal investigations for the Division. While with the Division, Branch specialized in complex white-collar crime investigations involving premium avoidance, money laundering, racketeering, and other organized financial crime schemes.

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