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ORVILLE R. TATE
Retired Criminal Investigator, U.S. Treasury
Department (Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations)
CLEET certified private investigator and armed security
officer
CLEET approved instructor for Financial Investigations and anti-money laundering.
Independent Bank Secrecy
Act and Financial Crimes Consultant.
Mr. Tate has extensive experience in conducting investigations and providing
consulting services regarding Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering compliance.
His BSA and Patriot Act Experience
includes the following:
• Money laundering, gambling, terrorist financing, fraud, corruption, and identity theft matters.
• Providing
investigative expertise to three National banking institutions in the Midwest that were under regulator sanctions. Conducting
due diligence for suspicious activity and documenting transactions concerning wire activity, Money Service Business compliance,
money laundering, structuring and other suspicious activity.
• Providing training in investigations and documentation
to bank personnel and BSA department heads.
• Provided expertise in establishment of a BSA unit for a bank under OCC
sanctions including organization, structure, training of bank personnel to conduct BSA investigations and analytical reviews;
sampling techniques designed to create data mining and alert parameters, establishing procedures and process investigations
manual, providing Quality Control Management and Review of analytical and investigative reports.
• Met with bank and
project management team to resolve various personnel and project issues including internal audit, quality and control and
preparation for regulator review.
He has participated as an instructor in conducting a Cleet (Oklahoma) accredited
training course for bank personnel and law enforcement officers relative to terrorist financing and money laundering.
As
a partner in Private Investigation Company, Fidelis Group, LLC, he engaged in management of business and conduct of investigations.
Clientele of partnership consists of the legal and business community in predominantly the Oklahoma City Metropolitan area.
He
also has experience in conducting Background Investigations for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)for individuals requiring
security clearances for positions within the U.S. Government as required by Homeland Security and Government Regulations.
These investigations are conducted by obtaining testimony through personal interviews and securing documentation from record
sources.
Mr. Tate's investigations resulted in a computed savings exceeding two million dollars in worker compensation
payments to the U.S. Postal service. He identified fraudulent claims by Workers Compensation recipients through the use
of surveillance, interviews and examination of available medical and claims records.
He also provided service to the
business and legal community by conducting interviews; analysis of financial and banking information and conducted due diligence
investigations.
Mr. Tate's experience as a special agent with the Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue
Service includes conducting and coordinating investigations of a wide range of activities involving financial misconduct including
identification and documentation of structuring violations and money laundering schemes through the analysis of banking and
financial information and the investigation of other illegal conduct for presentation to Federal prosecutors.
His
investigative experience includes investigating and identifying illegal conduct such as public corruption, embezzlement, kickbacks,
bribery, gambling, money laundering, income tax evasion and drug trafficking. He conducted investigations that required
analysis of transactions hidden through various schemes developed by a wide range of suspects from drug traffickers to business
executives.
He has made numerous appearances before the Federal Grand Jury and provided testimony in Federal and
State Court proceedings.
Due to Mr. Tate's experience as an IRS Special Agent he was selected as on “On-the Job Training
Instructor”, mentoring and providing supervision to newly trained agents. The OJI position consisted of training agents the
methodology of conducting financial investigations by training them in field work and evaluating their performance for management.
He was also selected as an Equal Employment Opportunity Investigator and conducted numerous investigations into alleged
violations of Equal Employment law and regulations. This assignment required analysis of numerous personnel records and interview
of management personnel to document violations of the EEOC regulations.
Mr. Tate is a veteran of the United States
Navy, serving in Long Beach, CA & Southeast Asia
If you need the experience and dedication of Mr. Tate for investigative
services, BSA consultation or financial crime training he can be reached at 405-990-1109.
Contact Mr. Tate
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