Daniel H. Coney

Directed operational activities for a nationwide investigative program focused on fraud and compliance across the upstream and midstream energy cycles, including safety violations that led to catastrophic death and destruction of assets.

·         Achieved total financial recoveries of $202M from Dec 2015 to May 2022, significantly improving employee efficiency and case resolution techniques. Demonstrated leadership in matrixed organization, with a dozen direct reports.

·         Recruited, developed, and led employees involved in compliance, investigations, and oversight, consistently enhancing performance and creating innovative solutions.

·         Collaborated routinely with diverse stakeholders, specializing in problem-solving across audit, monitoring, investigative, business, and compliance disciplines. Regularly identified, reported, and recommended solutions to enterprise-level risks.

·         Managed budget and purchasing functions, effectively monitoring fund utilization for work activities.

·         Led the response to a cybersecurity breach in the Computer Crimes Unit, earning an award for collaborative emergency response; early adopter and tester of new digital solutions.

·         Managed investigation into a $41 million gas commodities fraud and a nearly $50 million false claims case related to the improper use of estimates for mineral royalties, both resulting in major recoveries and compliance remedies.

·         Developed a succession plan with executives to mentor and replace myself as a supervisor, ensuring a seamless transition of leadership while also fostering the growth of junior agents.

Led a team of 30 agents and attorneys in probing internal misconduct and fraud cases involving state-of-the-art technologies, scientific innovations, last-mile broadband services, export cases, and international anti-trust violations. Communicated regularly with executives across a dozen bureaus in the Department, fostering cooperation and identifying risk solutions. Conducted comprehensive risk assessments to guide top management on emerging fraud trends and recommended strategic process enhancements. Served as a Contracting Officer Representative with an unlimited warrant (COR-III) on multiple contracts.

·         Boosted monetary recoveries by 64% within 2 ½ years, reduced overall case aging by 25%, and enhanced work product timeliness by 41%.

·         Conducted critical investigations into sensitive personnel misconduct and conflicts/bribery incidents.

·         Investigated procurement fraud, including a significant $375 million case of substituting lower-qualified candidates for IT roles at the Census Bureau and a contracting officer receiving kickbacks for directing contracts to a related party.

·         Led a multi-agency investigation into body armor fraud, resulting in civil recoveries worth over $136 million.

·         Investigated illegal discharges into coastal waters by a government research ship, leading to major changes across the fleet.

·         Oversaw significant investigations, including the release of radioactive materials into city sewers, multiple NOAA weather satellite contract frauds, and telecommunications grant fraud cases.

·         Successfully navigated investigation into theft of a government customer database aimed to undermine steel tensile strength testing at NIST, a program essential to structural integrity for applications such as bridges and skyscrapers.

·         Managed high-profile cyber-investigation on micro-leaks of financial data from internal "clean room" servers affecting financial markets.

A leader in healthcare and benefits fraud investigations, spearheading efforts to uncover fraudulent activities such as prescription diversion, unnecessary medical procedures, adulteration of cancer medications, and identity theft. Championed the use of data analytics to proactively detect and address criminal activities from their inception.

·         Steered investigations into Medicare cost report fraud, employing forensic accounting techniques at the transactional level, leading to multiple convictions related to bank and bankruptcy fraud, structuring, and healthcare fraud.

·         Pioneered the innovative use of money laundering statutes to enhance the prosecution of healthcare fraud cases.

·         Achieved significant victories in healthcare fraud cases, addressing false billing for durable medical equipment and medical testing, cost report misrepresentation, and unwarranted heart catheterization procedures.

·         Uncovered a nationwide scheme involving the fraudulent billing of adult diapers as medical equipment (A4328).

·         Collaborated effectively with state Medicaid Fraud Control Units to address overlapping violations.

·         Gained extensive experience with Medicare and supplemental insurance programs, working closely with enterprise-level stakeholders and nurse reviewers to generate new leads through data analysis.

·         Detected a physician excluded from the Medicare program for sexual misconduct, who subsequently obtained privileges at the University of Kansas Medical Center using a false identity, leading to a criminal conviction and deportation.

·         Led introduction of corporate integrity agreements as part of case resolutions. An article I wrote on compliance plans was the genesis for a revision to ACFE’s Fraud Examination Manual to include a section on compliance.

Uniformed police officer, consistently leading in drunk driving arrests, winning an award from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving for those efforts.

·         Served as Field Coroner, conducting death investigations at crime scenes to preliminarily assess whether the death was suspicious. Served on underwater rescue team from 1989 to 1991.

·         Conducted preliminary investigations into several aggravated assault and attempted murder scenes.

·         Solved auto dealer burglary case in less than 10 hours, quickly surmising potential suspects, recovering blood evidence, locating evidence in the back seat of the suspect’s car, and executing a search warrant.

·         Commendations for building evidence to take down a drug house based on a car stop and subsequent development of informant.

Served as a law enforcement & security specialist, including duties in uniformed patrol, priority resource security, safety officer, desk sergeant, and flight chief. Primary duties included responsibility for all dispatch, communications, alarm monitoring, and report writing for the shift. As flight chief, was the sergeant-in-charge of the shift and first-line supervisor for several police specialists. Team member for the Peacekeeper Challenge, taking third place in traffic accident investigation and second place in the individual obstacle course at the Third Air Force level (all U.S. Air Forces in England).