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News Releases
October-December, 2001
National Fraud Center Appoints G. W. “Bill” McDonald to Head Investments Industry Compliance Consulting HORSHAM, PA, October 18, 2001 - The National Fraud Center, Inc., (NFC) has retained consultant G. W. “Bill” McDonald, Esq. as senior manager of business development – investments. McDonald will be responsible for developing a strategy to assist firms in a number of industries to formulate policies in the areas of professional responsibility, due diligence, suitability and disclosure standards for use when dealing with government regulators and self-regulatory organizations and investor protection and education. “Bill brings more than 30 years’ experience in investment and financial services regulation and enforcement. His expertise will enable us to offer our clients a broad program of consulting services to assure that investment organizations are in compliance with federal regulations, are conducting adequate due diligence and are educating their employee and managers about fraud risks, said James H. Vaules, NFC’s chief executive officer.” For 21 years, McDonald served as Enforcement Director of the California Department of Corporations, managing a staff of 65 attorneys, investigators, accountants and legal support personnel. Before joining the Department of Corporations, he practiced securities law at the Boston firm of Ely, Bartlett, Brown & Proctor. He also represented the Internal Revenue Service before the Tax Court at the Office of Regional Counsel, Internal Revenue Service in Los Angeles. During his career in government, he served on numerous task forces and working groups devoted to preventing, investigating and bringing enforcement actions against investment and other financial frauds. McDonald is an attorney, arbitrator and mediator. He is also a frequent speaker and panelist on financial fraud and white-collar crime. The NFC, www.nationalfraud.com, provides products, investigative and consulting services to a broad base of customers in risk management, fraud and other economic crime detection and prevention, compliance, due diligence and legal support. Among its products, NFC’s Web-Enhanced Due Diligence tool enables subscribers to conduct due diligence investigations via the Internet. NFC provides risk assessments and high-level investigations for the private and public sectors throughout the world. About LexisNexis LexisNexis Group is a leading global provider of information to legal, corporate, government and academic markets, and publishes legal, tax, regulatory and other information. Operating units include Martindale-Hubbell; Matthew Bender, the Butterworths companies in Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and Africa, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur in France; Abeledo-Perrot in Argentina; Orac in Austria and other leading companies around the world, all members of Reed Elsevier plc. The LexisNexis™ services combine searchable access to over three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading edge systems and tools for managing this content. It delivers a high quality resource with which to build legal research and knowledge-management solutions for the entire enterprise, answering questions and solving problems. For more information, please visit www.lexisnexis.com.
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