POTOMAC, Md. , Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A huge -- and growing -- threat to U.S. security is international organized crime, said Alice Fisher , former assistant attorney general, criminal division, U.S. Department of Justice.
Fisher, keynote speaker at a conference of the Economic Crime Institute (ECI) of
Fisher recently rejoined the Latham & Watkins law firm in Washington as a partner.
Fisher's presentation was just one of many addressing the prevention, investigation and prosecution of economic crime. The nineteenth annual conference, "Global Warning! Economic Crime at Home and Abroad," also addressed prevention of fraud through compliance, identifying internal risks, emerging threats in identity theft, geographic "hot" spots in ID theft and data protection, vendor fraud, money laundering, and forensic accounting.
The conference, held at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Md. , continues tomorrow with a keynote by Greg Farrell , Wall Street correspondent for The Financial Times. Formerly an investigative reporter for USA Today, Farrell authored a book, "Corporate Crooks: How Rogue Executives Ripped Off Americans ... And How Congress Helped Them Do It."
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