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Don Rabon, CFE
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Association 2011 Speaker of the Year.
Retired as Deputy Director Western Campus, North Carolina Justice Academy. Formerly
Manager, Investigations Center of the North Carolina Justice Academy, North Carolina
Department of Justice. Law enforcement experience in rural and municipal law enforcement
agencies. Instructional areas include: Interviewing, Detecting Deception, Rapport Building,
Interrogation, Persuasion, Audit Related Interviewing, Investigations and Investigative Discourse
Analysis, Interviewing Generation ME!
Over a period of 35 years, interviewing instruction and investigative assistance has been provided
to related professionals in 46 states, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Belgium, France, Germany,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Trinidad, Barbados, Singapore, Ireland and England. In
addition, training has been provided to Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Personnel,
NATO Counterintelligence Personnel as well as private sector investigative and corporate
security personnel.
Participants have included the Legal Division, North Carolina Department of Justice, the United
States Secret Service, The North Carolina District Attorneys’ Association, The North Carolina
District Court Judges’ Association (via the Administrative Office of the Courts), the Law
Enforcement Communication Center, and the Behavioral Science Unit of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation at Quantico, VA, the US Army C.I.D., the US Army Intelligence – Counterintelligence,
the Central Intelligence Agency, The SEC, USDA, Banking Administrators, Auditors,
and Investigators, IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, Probation and Parole, Housing Authority
Investigators, Insurance and Banking Fraud Investigators, Defendant Investigators, Assessment
and Admissions Personnel, Substance Abuse Counselors, the Dallas Texas Investigative
Division, Real Estate related professionals, the California Highway Patrol, the United States
Postal Service Office of the Inspector, the Illinois State Police and American Airlines.
A.A.S. in Criminal Justice, from Davidson County Community College and a B.S. in Criminal
Justice Administration, from East Tennessee State University. Performed advanced studies at
Eastern Kentucky University. Military experience consists of three (3) years with the US Army.
Published author of 4 texts - Interviewing and Interrogation 2nd edition; Investigative Discourse
Analysis 2nd Edition; Persuasive Interviewing; Fraud Related Interviewing.
Editor of the interviewing focused newsletter, Hamlet’s Mind found at
Allen F. Brown, CFE, CPA
Assistant Legislative Auditor
Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office
Baton Rouge, LA
Allen is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe and is a CPA and CFE and currently serves as Assistant Legislative Auditor for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office. In this position, he oversees investigations and matters related to local government audits and issues. Allen has spent 18 years with the Legislative Auditor's Office and has participated in over 200 investigative audits. Results of these audits included felony convictions of four sheriffs, three of whom went to prison. As a result of an investigative audit of the Department of Elections, the statewide elected Commissioner of Elections was also convicted of felony charges and sentenced to prison, and over 25 others were indicted and convicted, including vendors from New Jersey, Florida, and Alabama. Subsequent to this project, the department was eliminated by the state legislature.
Allen's experience also includes 8½ years as Director of Internal Audit for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. This System has 49 campuses throughout the state.
Prior to joining the Community & Technical College System, Allen was Practice Leader for Forensic and Investigative Services for the international firm of Deloitte & Touche. While with Deloitte & Touche he directed projects in the continental United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Bermuda, Morocco, and the United Kingdom. Allen also worked with one of the major U.S. law firms in three major lawsuits involving the tobacco industry.
John Warren, J.D., CFE
Vice President and General Counsel
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
John Warren has served as general counsel of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners since September 2004. Mr. Warren is chief legal officer of the ACFE, responsible for providing guidance, oversight and direction to ACFE management and staff on all legal issues that affect the association. In 2006, Mr. Warren was appointed as an advisory member of the ACFE Board of Regents and in 2009 he was appointed Vice President of ACFE.
Aside from his legal responsibilities, Mr. Warren is also responsible for producing the Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, a bi-annual report issued by ACFE on the costs and effects of occupational fraud.
Prior to becoming general counsel, Mr. Warren served for eight years as associate general counsel and senior researcher of ACFE. He contributed works on occupational fraud, courtroom procedure, corporate espionage and embezzlement to the ACFE’s training program, and he served as a guest author for the “Fraud and the Law” column in The White Paper. Mr. Warren worked with Chairman Joseph T. Wells to develop the ACFE’s Higher Education Initiative, which provides free educational materials to colleges and universities that teach courses in fraud examination. He also has worked on behalf of ACFE to develop the Institute for Fraud Prevention, a multidisciplinary academic research center and consortium of universities dedicated to preventing and deterring fraud and corruption through research and education.
Mr. Warren received Bachelor of Science degrees in Political Science and Economics from the University of South Dakota in 1992, and a J.D. from Baylor Law School in 1995. He is a licensed member of the State Bar of Texas.