Master strategic questioning and psychological tactics to uncover deception, overcome resistance, and secure reliable admissions in fraud investigations without compromising your ethics.
Fraud investigations are won or lost in the interview room. In this practical and thought-provoking session, attendees will learn how forensic interviewing techniques can uncover deception, identify partial truths, and ethically extract critical information in fraud cases. This course explores how investigators can improve interview outcomes by reducing contamination, recognizing bias, and building more effective interview strategies. Participants will gain actionable techniques to ask clearer questions, interpret responses more accurately, and strengthen the integrity of their investigations.
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Forensic Linguist | KMI INVESTIGATIONS, LLC
Joe is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Forensic Linguist (court-certified Expert Witness for Interviewing & Interrogation). He retired from the Michigan State Police after 26 years and has 50+ years of investigative experience in the public and private sectors. He is the award-winning author of two books on Forensic Linguistics, “Getting the Truth” (2014) and 2019 “Getting the Truth: I am D.B. Cooper.” He investigated/supervised investigations into homicides, organized crime, financial crimes, narcotics and public corruption. He was the lead investigator into the disappearance of Jimmy R. Hoffa. Joe is Past President of the Michigan FBI National Academy Associates, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), holds a BS in Accounting from Wayne State University and an MPA from Eastern Michigan University, where he received Phi Kappa Phi Honors. He now owns and operates KMI Investigations in Michigan, specializing in financial fraud investigations and Forensic Linguistics.
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