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This book builds upon the broad-ranging and intensive experience of numerous investigators and their agencies, a good portion of which has been organized in specialized manuals, in internal agency documents which reflect agency policies and practices, and in the extensive knowledge of individual investigators who provide a wealth of information and advice

if one takes the trouble to ask. It would have been impossible to undertake or to complete this task without access to the work of those who have developed written materials in the past, and without the help and advice of those actually currently engaged in law enforcement in the area of white collar crime. We know that we have overlooked the contributions of many, since even a cursory review of the text of this book tells us that we have forgotten where we heard this particularly valuable piece of advice, or that specific admonition to beware of a serious investigative pitfall, and we hope that the sources of such experience will forgive us for inadvertently omitting recognition of their contributions.

This Manual had its genesis in discussions with James Golden, Director of the Enforcement Program Division, Office of Regional Operations, L.E.A.A., and with Stephen Cooley, Chief of the Organized Crime Desk of that Division, who recognized the need for and the potential benefits to the law enforcement community of the pulling-together of white collar crime experience in terms of common problems and approaches. Their unfailing interest and participation in this effort constituted a positive contribution, and together with Jay Marshall and Katherine Landen of their staff they were constantly alert to facilitate every aspect of this work.

While we examined many prior sources in preparation of this book, we would be remiss if we did not note the special helpfulness of Richard D. Latham, Director of Enforcement, Texas State Securities Board, who kindly made available an advance draft of his Midwest Enforcement Manual; of Charles A. Miller, former Director, Office of Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, who over many years contributed to the education of this project’s director and whose “Economic Crime: A Prosecutor’s Handbook” prepared for the National District Attorneys Association was a most valuable resource; and of Richard A. Nossen, formerly of the Intelligence Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, whose advice was invaluable and whose handbook on financial investigations is an appendix to this Manual.

In the course of gathering information we visited with many local, state and federal agencies, and should make special note of the following:

In Federal agencies: to William Erxleben, Director, Region X, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; Jack Bookey, Director, Region X, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to William Haye, of the Region X office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Clark Blight of his staff.

In State agencies: to Vern Hoy, Director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety and to Bill Bayley, Sergeant Ray Lambertson, and Lieutenant James Chilcoat of his staff; to Clark Mears in the Public Corruption Section of the Office of the Attorney General in Oregon; to Nicholas A. Dotoli, Chief Investigator in the New Jersey State Enforcement Bureau and members of his staff; to Lieutenants Lawrence Reece and Lawrence Birch of the Special Investigations Unit of the Michigan State Police and to Victor J. de Wolf, Earl Miller, Patrick Devlin, and Robert Pickel of the Michigan Attorney General’s Organized Crime Unit; to Sam Papich and William Tarangelo of the Governor’s Anti-Organized Crime Division in New Mexico and to Harvey Fruman of that state’s Attorney General’s Office; and to Craig Beek and Tom Ruxlow of the Criminal Investigations Bureau of the Iowa Department of Public Safety.

We were greatly assisted by local prosecutors and members of their staffs. We owe special thanks to the following: in Nassau County, N.Y., to Milton Lipson, Charles Padgett, and Robert Clarey; in King County (Seattle), Washington, to Gene Anderson and Michael Cohen; in San Diego, California, to James Lorenz and Lawrence K. Wilson, Lyle Strand, William Bergmeister, and Robert Fellmuth of his staff; in Genessee County (Flint), Michigan, to Prosecutor Robert Leonard and George C. Steeh, Edwyna Anderson, Bob McFadden, Bruck Smock, Barbara Menear, and Sheldon Siegel of his staff; in the District of Columbia, to Robert S. Ogren, Chief of the Fraud Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office; and to Joseph P. Paone of the Prosecutor’s Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Charles Ehlert, formerly director of Seattle’s municipal Consumer Protection Bureau, was of great help in orienting us to the investigative issues and problems of agencies such as his.

Many local police agencies deeply involved in investigation of white collar crimes, gave generously of their time, advice, and internal technique documentation. Special mention should be made of the cooperation of the Bunco-Forgery Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, directed by Captain Thomas Sena, whose staff advised us and in some cases critiqued preliminary drafts of sections of this Manual, Lieutenant William Mossman; Sergeants. Elmer Owens, Jack Stiff (ret.), Carl Hughett, Gordon McDevitt, John Olsen, William Lietz, Robert Nieto, Art Ramirez, Daniel Binstein (ret.); and to Officers Ray Madrid, George Nielson, J. Black, and D.A. Bowers; and finally to Lt. Romero who is conducting a unique consumer outreach program in the Los Angeles Police Department. In Seattle, Lieutenant Jerry Anderson and Sergeant James Whelan were most helpful, as were Sergeants Donald M. McCathran and Earl Gould in the District of Columbia.

Members of the Battelle staff made their own invaluable contributions. Roma St. James was project coordinator/secretary/schedule keeper/draftsperson of charts and tables, without whose efforts none of us could have worked as effectively. The work of Dr. Brintnall on organization of prosecution and investigative functions of white collar crime units, completed while a member of the Battelle staff prior to this project, was of great value to this effort. Harvey Chamberlain assisted us in the earlier stages of the project in collecting and organizing data; Deborah Berger is responsible for extensive searches of the literature and the structuring of this book’s organized bibliography; and Sheldon Arenberg, a Battelle consultant prepared the Link Network Diagram – Chapter II. It should be noted that among the authors of this Manual, principal responsibilities were as follows:

Dr. Ezra Stotland for sections on organization and training;

Dr. Marilyn Walsh for sections on intelligence and evaluation;

and Milton Weinberg for sections on conduct of white collar crime investigations and computers.

Herbert Edelhertz Project Director

Revision team for student edition:

Lieutenant Daniel Byram (retired) Mesa, Arizona Police Department

Joe Barnard

Jon Doyle