AUSTIN,
Texas (Jan. 11, 2013)– The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the
world’s largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud
training and education, has announced that Richard G. Brody, Ph.D., CFE, CPA,
and Bruce G. Dubinsky, M.S., CFE, CPA, have been elected to the ACFE Board of
Regents.
Elected by Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) worldwide,
members of the ACFE Board of Regents are responsible for setting membership
standards that promote professionalism and ensure the future of fraud
examination as a whole. They have authority over the admission of members, continuing
professional education and ethics requirements, and all other matters necessary
to maintain the high standards of the ACFE.
Brody
and Dubinsky will begin their two-year terms when they take office at the Board’s
Feb. 19-20, 2013 meeting at ACFE headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Brody: Honored
Educator, Prolific Author, Panelist on Fraud
Brody
is the 2012 ACFE Educator of the Year. He is the Douglas Minge Brown Professor
of Accounting at the University of New Mexico and a Daniels Fund Business
Ethics Fellow.
Brody
earned his doctorate in accounting from Arizona State University and previously
worked as a staff auditor for Deloitte Haskins + Sells, as a cost analyst for
Hewlett Packard and as a senior financial reporting analyst for Tandem
Computers.
Brody
has authored or co-authored more than 80 refereed publications and has made
more than 100 presentations at national and international conferences and
seminars. He served on a panel, “It may be legal, but is it ethical?” at the 23rd Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exhibition. Brody has served as a
panelist for the ACFE, and has been on the editorial advisory committee for Fraud Magazine since 2007.
Brody
serves as an expert witness and has experience in both civil and criminal
cases. He has worked with the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Department of
Justice, the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office and the Second Judicial
District Attorney’s Office in New Mexico.
Dubinsky: Nearly
30 Years of Experience in Investigation, Expert Testimony
Dubinsky
is a managing director in the Dispute Practice of Duff & Phelps LLC, which
provides financial advisory and investment banking services. He has nearly 30
years of experience providing fraud, forensic accounting, accounting and tax
services.
Dubinsky
has testified as an expert witness in cases involving criminal and civil fraud
and other types of dispute cases. He has been a testifying expert for the Tax
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Chief Counsel for
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on cases involving large, fraudulent, abusive
tax shelters.
Dubinsky
provides fraud and forensic accounting investigative analysis as a testifying expert
witness for Irving H. Picard, trustee for the Bernard Madoff Ponzi bankruptcy
case in the New York U.S. District Court.
He
led the forensic investigation and compliance engagement on campaign finance
fraud under the consent decree from the U.S. District Court of the Southern
District of New York for the 2010-2011 International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International officers’ election.
Dubinsky’s
other notable cases include the Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy investigation; the
Washington, D.C., teachers’ union fraud; the Fresno, Calif. Unified School
District fraud; and the Maryland FirstPay Ponzi scheme.
Dubinsky
has a Master of Science in Taxation from Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C.