Kelly Paxton is a Certified Fraud Examiner, former Private Investigator, and Professional Speaker. She also is the founder of the Fraudish (formerly Great Women in Fraud) podcast. She published Embezzlement: How to Prevent, Detect and Investigate Pink-Collar Crime in December, 2020.

Kevin Bacon's 6 degrees of separation is only 2 degrees for embezzlement. Do you know someone who is the victim of a trusted employee? While we lock our houses when we are away do we take such care with the people we work with? Understanding that good people can make bad choices is one of the most important things a business owner can learn. You need to trust but verify. I have only had one embezzlement victim who did not "like" the employee who ended up stealing from them. We hire people we know, like and trust. But life happens and sometimes it can cause a good employee to rationalize a bad choice like theft. As Kara Swisher started her book "In the end it was capitalism after all." For fraud cases "it is the money after all."

Kelly has www.pinkcollarcrime.com which is devoted to information regarding embezzlement. She speaks regularly on embezzlement and ethics. Kelly is known as the Pink Collar Crime expert. She is a subject matter expert who works and studies these types of cases. She regularly blogs on pink-collar crime.

Kelly's passion is ethics. She sees good people make bad choices regularly. Videos, interactivity and cutting edge research and resources are the basis for a much more engaged training. Ethics training no longer needs to be boring and having an attorney say "It depends." You will leave the training with a new mindset.

Her most recent "real job" was a global investigator for Nike. Before being recruited by Nike, Kelly worked criminal defense and prosecution cases. She also worked as a fraud analyst and background investigator for the Washington County Sheriff's Office. She has 7 years of experience as a contract special investigator for the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Homeland Security.

Ms. Paxton was a Special Agent for the US Customs Office of Investigations from 1993-1998. During this time she was assigned to the money laundering/white collar crime unit.

Specialties: Embezzlement cases, workplace investigations, identity theft cases, elder abuse cases, breach of fiduciary duties, pink collar crime, misappropriation of assets, LinkedIn, Social Media, open source intelligence (OSINT), Public Speaking, Ethics training. LinkedIn

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