Steve is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and retired Special Agent with the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. He has over 32 years of combined financial expertise in the fields of audit, taxation and forensic investigations. He has worked some of the most sophisticated and complex financial investigations in the Northern and Eastern Judicial Districts of California and has received numerous regional and national awards for his outstanding work. Prior to becoming a Special Agent, Steve worked with a regional CPA Firm in the San Francisco Bay Area where he managed both audit and tax engagements.

Steve has been involved in a wide-variety of criminal investigations during his federal law enforcement career. His investigations include money laundering, white-collar crime, income tax evasion, wire fraud, embezzlement, Ponzi schemes, anti-terrorism and bank fraud. Steve was assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task in Sacramento for over 15 years. He has extensive experience in testifying before grand juries and during complex financial crimes trials.