Patrick Scutero
Senior Forensic Accountant
Pat Scutero is a forensic accountant who specializes in the area of white collar and financial crimes investigations. Pat also has extensive experience with anti-money laundering and location and recovery of assets and tracing the flow of funds. Pat served for twenty-eight years with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), both as a civil auditor and as a criminal investigator with the Criminal Investigations Division (“CID”).
During his career in the IRS, Pat handled and directed numerous civil income tax audits of hundreds of individuals, small closely held corporations, large public corporations and multi-national corporations. Pat was also a member of a select group of agents who investigated individuals involved in drug related crimes for income tax violations. During his career as a Special Agent for the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, he was involved in hundreds of investigations that led to indictments and convictions under various Title 18 statutes. Pat conducted financial investigations involving allegations of criminal income tax fraud and other financial crimes, specifically in the banking, trust and securities areas by prominent businessmen and corporate entities.
Pat is a long-standing member of the International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspector Generals, (IPSIG), and is a member of the Association of former Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service.
Significant Cases of Interest:
- Pat was engaged as the Executive Forensic Accountant at the World Trade Center disaster clean-up site for the Turner quadrant after the September 11th attacks in lower Manhattan. In this capacity, he directed and coordinated the audit of dozens of companies, monitoring for fraud and abuse.
- Pat was engaged as the Executive Forensic Accountant for the New York Racing Association (NYRA). In this capacity, Pat directed and coordinated the audit of a $200 million firm, ($2 Billion in wagering) while it was under the monitorship of the United States Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of New York. He worked hand and hand with the Comptroller of New York State on this project and with several investigators and accountants.
- Pat led a team of forensic accountants in a well-publicized civil litigation involving the defrauding of individual investors of approximately $10 million. Similarly, he led a team dispatched to investigate a multi-million million dollar embezzlement scheme and traced the disposition of those purloined funds to the perpetrator who was eventually convicted. .
- Pat was contracted by the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan to assist in the investigation and successful prosecution of a securities dealer who specialized in Regulation S securities
Senior Forensic Accountant
Pat Scutero is a forensic accountant who specializes in the area of white collar and financial crimes investigations. Pat also has extensive experience with anti-money laundering and location and recovery of assets and tracing the flow of funds. Pat served for twenty-eight years with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), both as a civil auditor and as a criminal investigator with the Criminal Investigations Division (“CID”).
During his career in the IRS, Pat handled and directed numerous civil income tax audits of hundreds of individuals, small closely held corporations, large public corporations and multi-national corporations. Pat was also a member of a select group of agents who investigated individuals involved in drug related crimes for income tax violations. During his career as a Special Agent for the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, he was involved in hundreds of investigations that led to indictments and convictions under various Title 18 statutes. Pat conducted financial investigations involving allegations of criminal income tax fraud and other financial crimes, specifically in the banking, trust and securities areas by prominent businessmen and corporate entities.
Pat is a long-standing member of the International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspector Generals, (IPSIG), and is a member of the Association of former Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service.
Significant Cases of Interest:
- Pat was engaged as the Executive Forensic Accountant at the World Trade Center disaster clean-up site for the Turner quadrant after the September 11th attacks in lower Manhattan. In this capacity, he directed and coordinated the audit of dozens of companies, monitoring for fraud and abuse.
- Pat was engaged as the Executive Forensic Accountant for the New York Racing Association (NYRA). In this capacity, Pat directed and coordinated the audit of a $200 million firm, ($2 Billion in wagering) while it was under the monitorship of the United States Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of New York. He worked hand and hand with the Comptroller of New York State on this project and with several investigators and accountants.
- Pat led a team of forensic accountants in a well-publicized civil litigation involving the defrauding of individual investors of approximately $10 million. Similarly, he led a team dispatched to investigate a multi-million million dollar embezzlement scheme and traced the disposition of those purloined funds to the perpetrator who was eventually convicted. .
- Pat was contracted by the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan to assist in the investigation and successful prosecution of a securities dealer who specialized in Regulation S securities.