Vivian says her job as a monetary analyst performing forensic accounting is like piecing collectively a puzzle. Sometimes, the items are financial institution statements, enterprise information, and different official paperwork.
It’s Vivian’s problem to make the items match.
Lately, Vivian helped TDI’s Fraud Unit cease two docs – Desi and Deno Barroga of Dallas – who had been overprescribing opioids and falsely billing well being plans.
Fraud Unit investigators obtained Vivian subpoenas for the information she wanted. Subsequent, she combed by means of the docs’ private and enterprise financial institution information to hint the $45 million they billed and the $9 million they had been paid.
“It is my job to seek out the place that cash is and the place it is going,” Vivian mentioned
TDI’s investigators used what Vivian discovered to assist federal companies, together with the FBI, construct a legal case. The docs pleaded responsible and withstand 10 years in jail.
Apart from stopping criminals, the Fraud Unit additionally desires to get restitution for victims. Courts can order criminals to pay restitution.
Vivian mentioned: “A technique companies can do that’s by seizing their belongings. To have the ability to seize these belongings, we’ve to show that they had been purchased with soiled cash.”
Earlier than becoming a member of TDI, Vivian traced properties and belongings for an accounting agency. Her faculty diploma was in finance with an emphasis on enterprise evaluations.
She loves taking rows and columns of numbers on a spreadsheet and making sense of them.
“That is what I really like about this job: making sense of the numbers for everybody else. It is my contribution to the staff effort.”
