Flexing instead of curtsying

Jonna Mendez broke a record for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) as a keynote speaker at the 35th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past June. Her memoir, “In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked,” sold out at the ACFE’s bookstore within an hour — the first time that’s ever happened at an ACFE Global Fraud Conference.

The line of people eagerly waiting to get their copies signed by the former CIA chief of disguise snaked around the Las Vegas Strip’s Aria Hotel and Casino’s convention center exhibit hall, and it seemed doubtful she’d be able to get through all of them. But she signed every last one with time to spare a bit of wisdom to some of the many female fraud fighters who queued up for her autograph.