Top fraud professionals gather to share experiences, lead workshops and network.
The Fraud Summit, put on annually by the Jindal School’s Center for Internal Auditing Excellence, gathers professionals interested in the latest trends in fraud schemes and fraud prevention.
The two-day summit also offers continuing professional education through workshops and a general conference. The workshops offer 8 hours of CPE credit, and the conference offers another 8 hours of CPE credit.
2024 Fraud Summit
The Center for Internal Auditing Excellence at the Naveen Jindal School of Management hosted its annual premier event, the Fraud Summit, on March 21, 2024 and March 22, 2024.
The 19th Annual Fraud Summit featured a prominent fraud investigator and trainer, an expert in communicating fraud reports, and a former securities trader who had been implicated in an FBI Sting and later became an informant.
Traci Brown
Traci Brown is a body language expert and a leader in training people to build their bottom line by detecting deception. Brown has been a frequent guest on TV interpreting the body language of criminals and politicians. In her keynote, Traci taught the lie, fraud, and identity theft detection skills that she has used to get to the truth in billion-dollar business deals, crimes, and politics.
Leah Wietholter
Leah Wietholter, the CEO of Workman Forensics in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a CFE, CPA, and Private Investigator. Wietholter is an expert in following patterns to find money. After working for the FBI and a public accounting firm in Tulsa, she opened Workman Forensics to help clients become a modern-day Sherlock Holmes by equipping them with tools to find money. Her 15 years of experience includes having worked over 150 cases. Through her work, she has testified in State and Federal courts bringing clarity to the financial details for judges and juries.
Margie Bastolla
Margie Bastolla, CIA, is a trainer, author, and consultant who helps internal audit, fraud examiners, and compliance departments write clear, impactful reports; reduce report revisions; and quicken report issuance. She has taught thousands of auditors in hundreds of organizations to think critically and write clearly. Margie is the author of the 2023 book, Clarity, Impact, Speed: Delivering Audit Reports that Matter, published by The IIA.
Tom Hardin
In addition to Wietholter and Bastolla, the conference included Tipper X. From 2008–2012, a little-known New York financial analyst, Tom Hardin, assisted FBI agents in understanding how insider trading occurred in the financial services industry. As the youngest professional later implicated in the sting and known by his undercover moniker “Tipper X,” Tom was tasked with wearing a covert wire to help the FBI bring down some of its biggest targets, leading to the largest Wall Street housecleaning campaign of a generation. Tom was later invited by FBI-NYC to speak to their rookie agents in 2016 and is now a global keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and board advisor. Tom took responsibility for his actions as a young professional, transformed his life, and is now exploring why we sometimes make the wrong decisions.
Center for Internal Auditing Excellence
Academically, the Center for Internal Auditing Excellence oversees the Jindal School’s Internal Auditing Education Partnership, which offers students a strong program in internal audit and risk management through accounting and information management courses.
The center puts on the Annual Fraud Summit, and proceeds benefit center students and the program.
For information on attending next year’s summit, please contact joseph.mauriello@utdallas.edu.