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Al Allison is the Manager, Financial Investigations for Baker Street Group, Inc. and is the firm’s specialist in forensic accounting techniques, financial fraud investigation, anti-money laundering, and asset location. He is an accomplished investigator and Certified Fraud Examiner with broad experience in financial fraud investigations and forensic accounting techniques both in federal law enforcement and the private sector. Al’s background includes twenty seven years with Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation.Recent engagements include:Assisting the Internal Audit team of a Fortune 500 company after a routine Sarbanes-Oxley audit discovered an unspecific allegation of kickbacks being received by employees with purchasing authority. Coordinated national employee theft and fraud investigations for a Fortune 500 company.

Was personally engaged to lead a team of consultants for a bank with $5.3 billion in asserts to assist the new VP-BSA Compliance with bringing the bank current with reviews of alerts to potential suspicious activity requiring the preparation of a SAR. The engagement included evaluating the procedures developed by an accounting firm on how to document AML investigations in accordance with regulatory expectations and the development and implementation of investigative case management systems. Ipsa International...Was engaged as part of an investigative team to assist a bank with $300+ billion in assets in reviewing a large backlog of alerts relating to what the bank referred to as “non-transactional” alerts that were generated from information provided by the branches, legal alerts, and 90-day reviews. Conducted research, prepared an investigative report, and prepared the SAR narrative Was selected to train new team members and identified to assist other team members in both the bank’s policies and procedures and in accessing information using the bank’s core information systems.Dominion Advisory Group...Was engaged as part of a team to review the policies, procedures, and processes for reporting suspicious non-cash activity from all business lines of a bank with $57 billion in assets. Led a team of consultants in reviewing alerts, writing SAR narratives, training bank AML personnel, and in implementing quality control procedures. Was engaged as part of an investigative team to assist a bank with $11 billion in assets in implementing improvements to its SAR program. Reviewed “look back-type” reports generated from proprietary software for cash transaction and wire transfers and made recommendations to file or not file SARs.

Managed the efforts of 65 special agents working in the areas of income tax evasion, domestic and foreign money laundering, currency report violations, and asset seizures.