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Red Flags of Infrastructure Fraud

Course Category Audit

March 12, 2025

7:00 a.m.

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On-Site

This course will be delivered on-site in Kosrae.

Registration for this course is invitation-only. Please email us for additional details.

Course Description

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides $1.2 trillion in federal spending over the next five years mostly in grants and contracts to states and local governments for public transit, railways, power grids, electric vehicles and buses, ferries, airports, waterways, climate change, broadband internet, environmental protection, drinking water, and transformation safety. This program of fast-moving money, with untested controls, provides vast opportunities for fraud and waste. Auditors, investigators, and grants and contract managers at all levels of government will need to be especially vigilant for possible schemes and red flag indicators of fraud that robs the public of funds and performance.

What You Will Learn

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the basics of IIJA, the agencies, the projects, and spending
Understand the basics of fraud and auditors’ and investigators’ responsibilities
Identify fraud schemes and indicators that are common to federally funded projects
Learn investigative techniques to assist agents and auditors in discovering procurement fraud
Understand the federal, civil, and criminal statutes that fraud schemes violate
Understand the basics of control standards, applications, and indicators of control weaknesses and vulnerabilities

Who Should Attend

Auditors, investigators, inspectors, contract, grant and program managers involved in approving IIJA project spending and monitoring performance and fund accountability.

Tuition Fees

With funding support from the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, courses are available free of charge for government accountability professionals within the insular areas. The course fee is waived and there is no cost to register and attend, Professionals who do not meet the above criteria, please contact [email protected].

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March 12, 2025

7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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CPEs - 8 Credit Hours

On-Site, Kosrae

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Instructor

Michael Binder

Washington, DC

Michael, Gradudate School USA Instructor, is the fomer Director of the Graduate School USA, Government Audit Training Institute. Hes has served over forty two years in federal audit staff, management and executive positions in GAO, the Inspector General community and as Acting Inspector General of the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael has a BBA and MBA in Finance and Economics from the George Washington University, attended Harvard University, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Federal Executive Institute. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and a former national officer of the Association of Government Accountants.

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