LICFE - President's Message - Long Island Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

LICFE is proud to present a Special Guest Speaker for the November 15th meeting, at the Westbury Manor, Mr. Henry I. DeGeneste, Senior Vice President and Director of Worldwide Security, at Prudential Securities. While proud to call him a friend, I am honored that one of the true leaders of our industry, has accepted the LICFE invitation. Mr. DeGeneste is a highly sought after speaker and will be speaking about Securities Fraud. Prior to joining Prudential, Henry was the Superintendent (Chief) of Police, of the Port Authority of NY and NJ.

The Case of the Month will be presented by Chapter Member Frank Shea. After his retirement from NYPD, Mr. Shea formed Alpha Group, a highly successful and professional Corporate Investigations firm, with offices in Farmingdale and California. Mr. Shea's presentation will deal with the often ignored topic of Video Surveillance Techniques and Insurance Fraud.

For those of you who were unable to attend the September 20th meeting, you missed out on a very interesting evening, which really proved to be an information training session. Due to a last minute situation, our planned guest speaker was stuck at a meeting, in California. In a true spirit of support for the Long Island Chapter, our speakers from Lexis-Nexis, Ken Jewell, Esq., and Scott Jackman, accepted the last minute challenge and with only two day's notice and arranged for an additional speaker, Mr. Don Wadsworth, of the National Fraud Center. Ken Jewell and Scott Jackman gave a joint presentation which was a combination of live internet and Lexis-Nexis research training. Don Wadsworth gave a PowerPoint presentation on The Integration of Services. The combined two hours of training was well received by everyone in attendance. While I know this sounds like an advertisement for Lexis-Nexis, it really was very nice of them to insist on paying for their three guest speakers and making an additional $500.00 contribution to the Chapter.

If any Chapter Member would like to volunteer to either be a guest speaker, or present a Case of the Month, please call the Chapter Office, or send an e-mail to info@licfe.org. As a reminder, LICFE now accepts credit card payments in its own name.

Finally, the Advertisement section of the LICFE Web Site is now open. Anyone wishing to place a banner ad on the site, with a direct company link, can do so by sending the HTML Code for the banner to me at dez@zeldin.org. There will be NO CHARGE for Chapter Members and Associates, through the end of the year.

PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LONG ISLAND CHAPTER AND COME TO THE WESTBURY MANOR AT 6:00PM, ON NOVEMBER 15th.

Very truly yours,

David E. Zeldin, CFE
President