Steve Bratten, CFE, CAMS

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303-***-****

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PROFILE:

Result-oriented and dedicated professional with auditing, accounting, law enforcement, network and application engineering, and leadership experience. Consistently known for creative problem solving and producing results.

EDUCATION:

1998 -University of Kansas - Bachelor of Science - Business Administration / Finance

CAREER SUMMARY:

02/07 – Present / Colorado Department of Revenue

Special Agent Criminal Tax Enforcement Section

Primary responsibilities include to investigate violations to all taxes administered by the State of Colorado including sales tax, wage withholdings, excise and income tax. I have conducted over twenty (20) complex white-collar and money related criminal investigations with hundreds of defendants including joint investigations with the DEA, Denver Police, Arapahoe County Impact, Douglas County Impact, Colorado Attorney General's Office, Internal Revenue Service, Denver District Attorney's Office and other Colorado State and Local and Federal agencies. I have prepared summary records and charts for grand jury presentations and trial based on forensic examinations of individual and company records. I have created cash flow statements and income statements based on forensic examinations of individual and company records. I have completed forensic accounting examinations of years’ worth of books and records regarding violations to the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA), tax evasion, other taxation violations, marijuana cultivation and distribution, methamphetamine distribution, cocaine distribution, forgery, theft, embezzlement, money laundering and securities fraud statutes. I have conducted interviews of witnesses and suspects during the course of the investigations and preparation for trial. I have written affidavits for court order for production of records, search warrants, seizure warrants and complaints and information for various Colorado District Attorney's offices, Colorado Attorney General's office and the US Attorney's Office. I have collected and obtained evidence through voluntary means, from court orders for production of records and search warrants. I have reviewed Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) through FinCEN request. I have audited, spread sheeted and summarized bank and business records related to cases to determine fraud and derive taxable income and taxes due from raw data. I have worked with local and state prosecutors in preparation for the filing of charges and through the legal process to trial. I have prepared exhibits and worked with prosecutors to prepare grand jury indictments. I have prepared exhibits and worked with prosecutors to prepare for trial. I have testified multiple times including as an expert in regard to State of Colorado taxes in both State and District grand jury's, motion hearings and trials. I have written reports and examined records in preparation for assets for forfeiture with US Attorney's Office and local District Attorney's offices. The cases I have worked on with the US Attorney's Office have resulted in over 8 million dollars in assets seized.

Notable criminal cases investigated:

Operation Texas THC (Ton LE DTO)

Operation Golden Gopher (Tri Nguyen DTO)

Operation Gas Light (Tal Bronstein DTO)

Alan Deatley – Conservation Easement fraud

Operation Butters (Derek Smith DTO)

John Swanson, Michael Whitney and Smoker Friendly Stores – Spice / Synthetic Marijuana

Operation Cargo – (Juan Gonzalez DTO)

Todd Nelson and Guillermo Castro – Marijuana cultivation and distribution

Victor Uruchurtu and Irvin Molden – pawn shop fencing

James Johnson, Daniel Bernier and Chip Creager - Spice / Synthetic Marijuana

Operation Blown’ in the Windy City (Conley Hoskins DTO)

Thomas Clifton and James Lanzy – Non-Profit Organization embezzlement / tax evasion

Jeffrey Wagner – internal corporate theft/embezzlement/tax evasion

Kristina Makowski - internal corporate theft/embezzlement/tax evasion

Tommy Naler – sales tax fraud, embezzlement and theft

Mark Schifter – online charity/raffle fraud

Thomas Harvey – anti-government tax protestor / tax evasion

Tanner Kimberlinn / Silver Lizard – marijuana cultivation and distribution / tax evasion

Terry Dorman – securities fraud, identity theft, tax evasion

Matthew Tennant – corporate theft / tax evasion

Michael Nargi – tax evasion

Linda Luther-Starbird - anti-government tax protestor / tax evasion

Gerrard, Debra and Jeramiah Maisonneuve - anti-government tax protestor / tax evasion

Kelly Deal – tax evasion

01/05 – 01/07 - Boulder County Sheriff's Office

Deputy Sheriff

I worked in the work-release area in the jail division where I managed and supervised inmates.

I also worked as a Patrol Deputy. My primary responsibilities were fielding and responded to calls within my district. I did the initial investigation on the calls and determined if a crime had been committed and if there was probable cause to arrest. I made vehicle stops and pedestrian contacts. I did interviews with suspects, victims and witnesses. I assisted outside agencies with obtaining information and interviewing suspects who lived in our county.

02/04 - 12/04 - Jefferson County Sheriff's Office

Deputy Sheriff

I supervised and managed inmates in the detention facility as a detention services deputy. I maintained safety and security guidelines and ensured the inmates' needs are meet and are treated fairly. I wrote reports and filed charges for jail violations and Colorado State statute violations. I did interviews and submitted any needed evidence pertaining to the violations. I investigated any discrepancies of the jail policies and guidelines.

01/01 - 02/04 - Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

Information Analyst

10/03 - 02/04

I worked on a project for Weyerhaeuser converting servers in a Novell environment to Windows 2000 server environment. Using Active Directory, I setup new security settings for the legacy applications, file folders and user accounts. I audited, categorized, organized and migrated legacy data and applications from the Novell servers to the new Windows 2000 servers. I did an audit of the new servers to ensure compliance with the project standards and to ensure all data and securities were migrated correctly. I also setup the network configurations on the Windows 2000 servers. I designed and implemented test plans for the legacy applications on the new servers to ensure compliance and functionality. I investigated and resolved all discrepancies between the legacy environment and the new environment.

07/03 - 10/03

I worked on a project for Dow Chemical implementing a voice over IP network. I audited and reviewed engineering solutions, provided final documentation of the solutions, and facilitated meetings. I followed project guidelines to determine if the solutions derived by the engineers would work functionally and if they fit within the project standards. I facilitated meetings between Dow Chemical personnel and EDS engineers. I drafted and provided final documentation of the engineering solutions to Dow Chemical and documentation of the meetings I would facilitate.

06/01 - 07/03

I function as the Team Lead, PoP in the Box (PIB) advocate and PIB manager. I was the team lead for the legacy applications site solution engineering team. I was responsible for conducting application engineering reviews and defining network-engineering solutions for legacy applications to operate in the NMCI environment. Our team provided documentation and network diagrams of the solutions, which were presented to the United States Navy. I was in charge of scheduling my team for their engineering reviews and PoP in the Box testing with the customer. We had between five and ten team members and I had to produce a process that would schedule team members to conduct both interviews and testing for applications. I provided a procedure and processes of conducting interviews, scheduling of interviews, auditing and testing of applications, and setting up a test environment and test lab for testing.

I was responsible for testing in the legacy applications in a simulated NMCI environment. I also managed the PoP in the Box, which included operating and managing the firewall, router, servers and clients. This also included auditing network traffic between the legacy and new environment.

Team Lead responsibilities include bringing in new team members to the group and getting them up to speed of project specifics and what their responsibilities are. We all worked TDY and I got the team familiar with their surroundings and the new processes and procedures that we used to get our jobs done. I managed my team's schedule for engineering reviews and testing. The numbers and data captured were forwarded onto upper management, which was forwarded onto a congressional oversight committee for review. I obtained a DOD Secret Clearance during this project.

01/01 - 06/01

Information Associate working on the New Development Team at MCI World Com. Development and presentation of Mainframe restart/abend procedures on the midrange and development of the Project InVision (PIV) help procedures for the TCSD website for the Traffic Summarization team. Administrator for PIV System. Automated outputs from Mainframe REXX programs to be web enabled for the customer. I have business and information analysis skills. I have been trained and used SLC methodology and Project Management processes.

03/00 – 08/00 – Kiel Hurricanes Football Club

Linebacker / Team Captain

I was a member of professional football team in Kiel, Germany. I was elected team captain. I helped with the game plans and coached different techniques.

10/99 – 03/00 - Invesco Mutual Funds

Account Representative –

I worked in a call center handling incoming calls on customer accounts. I provided information on

our mutual funds and other researched information. I did trades, transfers exchanges on customer

accounts. I did market research and provided customers with market knowledge. I obtained both

series 6 and 63 licenses.

Certifications/Licenses:

Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)

Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

COLORADO P.O.S.T. (previous)

LIDAR/RADAR

TASER

INTOXILIZER 5000

Series 6, 63 (previous)

COMPUTER SKILLS:

GenTax

Active Directory

Tiburon

Windows

Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server

Group Policy Object Administration

Network Administration

Port and Protocol Resolution and Risk Evaluation

Application Packaging with Novidigm Radia Software

PC Hardware and Software Configuration and Management

SQL Script Writing and SQL Server Administration/Engineering

Reflections

HTML

Visio

Flash

Quickbooks

State of Colorado Accounting and Reporting System

Microsoft Office – Excel, Power Point, Access and Word

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

I have taken classes in anti-money laundering, fraudulent documents and identifications, financial fraud and financial statement fraud and tax investigations and the Reid Interview and Interrogations.

Continuing Education was required through EDS. I took classes ranging from

Network Administration, Network Engineering, Java, HTML, DHTML, XML, C, C++, Object Oriented Design and Analysis, JCL, and COBOL. I was also a member of the Colorado Springs Solutions Centre Web Steering Committee

Honors & Awards

2019 – US Attorney’s Office Accommodation

2015 – DEA Employee of the Month

2014 – DEA Employee of the Month

2009 – Boulder County Sheriff’s Accommodation

1997-1998 1st Team Academic All-Big XII - Big XII Conference

1994-1999 Jayhawk Scholar - University of Kansas Athletics

1998 - Community Champion - Nations Bank

1998 - Good Works Team - American Football Coaches Association

1998 - Honorable Mention All-Big XII - Big XII Coaches

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