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Internal Investigations – Ethics in Action

When:  8 August 2015 (Saturday) 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (PDT)

Location:  Beckman Coulter, 250 S. Kraemer Blvd., Brea, CA 92821

Presented by:  Raymond Aghaian, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Ray Aghaian, a partner in the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, is an experienced trial lawyer and former federal criminal prosecutor focusing his practice on white collar criminal defense, cybersecurity, complex civil litigation, and internal investigations. As a federal prosecutor Mr. Aghaian helped lead the U.S. Justice Department’s efforts in investigating and prosecuting an array of white collar crimes including cyber intrusions, healthcare fraud, theft of trade secrets, bribery, mail, wire and bank fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, and mortgage fraud.  Mr. Aghaian was nominated for the prestigious Attorney General’s Award, the highest award in the Department of Justice and received numerous accolades from various federal law enforcement agencies including special recognition by the director of the FBI.  Since returning to the private sector, Mr. Aghaian has represented numerous companies and corporate executives in a variety of internal investigations and white collar defense matters involving: bribery, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), procurement fraud relating to government contractors, the False Claims Act, ITAR and related export control violations, the Lacey Act, and miss-branded and adulterated drugs in violation of FDA regulations, embezzlement and other related fraud under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes.  Some of the internal investigations lead by Mr. Aghaian have involved:

• Representing one of the nation's largest national laboratories in an internal investigation relating to one of the worst national environmental catastrophes;
  
• Representing an international management and construction firm with more than $2 billion dollars of annual revenues in relation to an investigation of pending corruption charges against local 
  
• Representing a Fortune 200 company in a government investigation involving allegations of export control violations;
  
• Representing one of the largest aircraft ground handling companies in an internal investigation involving the arrest of employees in the dry-ice bombings in LAX;
  
• Representing an international insurance company with more than 1,800 employees and more than 1,000 independent brokers in an internal investigation involving fraud and breach of contract by vendors.
  

OCPA is a State Bar of California Approved MCLE provider and certifies that this seminar qualifies for MCLE CREDIT 1.0 (Ethics).

Event Fee: $10.00 for OCPA members, $20.00 for non-members, NO Walk-ins will be accepted for this meeting.

Attendees must pre-register for this meeting via this event on the OCPA website and provide the requested information during registration.  

Deadline for registering for this event:  August 4, 2015. 

Thank you to Beckman Coulter for hosting this meeting.

*Space is limited for all OCPA events, so please submit your reservation via this website event. Walk-ins are welcome on a first come first serve basis if space is available.

*Cancellation Policy - If you need to cancel your reservation, please e-mail the Ethics Section Co-Chair Vicky La Celle at vicky.ocpa@outlook.com or Kathy Miller at khmiller@cox.net. No refunds will be issued. Credit for a future meeting will be held in your OCPA account which may be applied to future meetings if your cancellation is received no less than 48 hours prior to the event.

Questions? Please contact the Ethics Section Co-Chair Vicky La Celle at vicky.ocpa@outlook.com or Kathy Miller at khmiller@cox.net or VP Administration Lorena Hughes at lhughes@landrylaw.net. If you have a topic or speaker you would like to hear at an upcoming section meeting, please let us know.

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