Senior Financial Investigator

About the role

The contractor supports the FBI’s financial investigation processes by introducing tools and techniques for analyzing financial information, developing forfeiture aspects of ongoing investigations, reviewing and tracing assets from bank statements and other records, identifying hidden assets and false statements, maintaining detailed case documentation, researching various investigative databases, preparing legal documents and exhibits, assisting with probable cause development, conducting link analyses, and providing courtroom testimony related to asset forfeiture matters.

Responsibilities

• Introduce specific tools and techniques to analyze financial information.
• Provide support to fully develop the forfeiture aspects of an ongoing investigation.
• Analyze financial records obtained by FBI Case Teams through internal and external databases and submit reports documenting the results.
• Review bank statements; deposits and debit transactions, including checks, letters of credit, Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs), loan applications, and related records obtained pursuant to Federal and State subpoenas and search warrants executed by the Government.
• Review documents to determine hidden assets and false statements used to hide illicit assets from investigators and to make the assets appear legitimate.
• Review, process, and analyze information sufficient to assist in determining the amount to seek for forfeiture to identify and trace assets during investigations and assist the Government in perfecting its interest in the property.
• Repatriate assets that are subject to forfeiture.
• Identify the individuals and entities making deposits and all related bank accounts, properties, investments, and other assets that may be identified from the documentation.
• Maintain detailed case documentation and database files of financial investigative research to trace proceeds of criminal activities and investigative interests in targeted property.
• Research and analyze information derived from various investigative and business-related automated systems including, but not limited to, Choice Point, Autotrack, TECS, FINCEN, CLEAR, THREADS, Accurint, ISYS, Lexis-Nexis, PACER, CourtLink, West Law, NADA, Used Price.com, and other tools.
• Use law enforcement databases that provide forfeiture‑specific case support to the Government in civil and criminal forfeiture matters.
• Perform research and analysis tasks such as: analyzing and documenting ownership interests of targeted properties; analyzing financial records to trace the proceeds of criminal violations to their current form; creating a database from financial records to document the source of targeted property; preparing seizure warrants, civil complaints, and forfeiture counts; preparing exhibits on the source and ownership of targeted property; documenting and cataloguing evidence on the source and ownership of targeted property; identifying, analyzing, and documenting potential substitute assets.
• Perform tasks and services necessary to complete ingestion, processing, and analysis of varied datasets acquired during investigations by leveraging existing government toolsets.
• Collaborate and consult with government data scientists, system engineers, and software developers to extract insight from proprietary data that result in investigative and law enforcement outcomes.
• Provide additional services, including parsing of dialed number strings, to identify values and property that may be subject to forfeiture in a particular investigation and to perfect the Government’s interest in forfeitable property.
• Organize and conduct detailed examinations of information generated during complex criminal/civil investigations as well as alternative sources for the purpose of conducting financial analyses of personal/business assets of targeted organizations/individuals.
• Assist with the development of sufficient probable cause to enable the Government to pursue seizure warrants, temporary restraining orders, civil complaints, and forfeiture counts against targeted property and parties.
• Provide investigative support to the Government with coordinated planning to mitigate excessive risks in seizing targeted property, including assessing impacts on the local community (e.g., seizure of an occupied apartment complex).
• Prepare documents and catalog case exhibits on the source and ownership of targeted properties.
• Perform analytical research to identify and record potential substitute assets.
• Identify witnesses and subjects and assist the case agent/attorney during interviews and courtroom proceedings regarding the ownership and source of targeted property of ongoing case investigations.
• Conduct detailed link analyses specific to forfeiture, utilizing the results of financial analysis and other investigative techniques such as Title III surveillance to determine relationships between the subjects of the investigation and the events that lead to the alleged forfeitability of property and proceeds.
• Provide courtroom testimony and depositions regarding investigative analysis and identification of assets derived from specific unlawful activities.