Overview
Join us on the morning of Fri., Mar. 7 for an online/virtual training. Secure your two required ethics CPE credits for 2025 with Dr. Jill Brown. Hear compelling applications of ethics through case studies, analysis, lessons learned, and recommendations. Plus, get an inside look at the OIG from a special agent and senior leader at the OIG with successful case studies and a discussion of what it's like working as a special agent.
Presentation 1:
Ethical Dilemmas (2 ethics CPEs)
Jill A. Brown (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is the Hieken Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Management at Bentley University. Her scholarly interests include corporate governance, ethics, corporate social responsibility, and strategic leadership.
Brown’s work has been published in top management and ethics journals and she has been an editor of several academic journals. She is past Division Chair of the Social Issues in Management Division (SIM) of the Academy of Management—a member organization of over 2700 teaching professionals worldwide.
She is also co-author of the 11th edition of the textbook Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability and Stakeholder Management with Archie Carroll (2023; Cengage Publishing). Prior to her career in academia, Brown was a commercial banker and consultant.
Presentation 2:
OIG overview, local/national success stories & working as a special agent (1 CPE)
Roberto Coviello currently serves as the Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Regional Office of Investigations for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG). In this capacity, Mr. Coviello oversees the OIG’s criminal, civil and administrative investigations of fraud and misconduct related to HHS programs and operations throughout the six New England states. Mr. Coviello has served the OIG’s Office of Investigations since 2010. Prior to joining the OIG, Mr. Coviello worked as a consultant leading teams in the delivery of analytic and forensic technology services to government and corporate clients during investigations involving international terrorism, financial crimes, and securities fraud.
Jon-Paul Correira is a graduate of Boston College (1990) and Boston College Law School (1993). After a brief stint as an attorney in private practice, he began his career in government service in 1995 as a pension investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1998, he was hired as a special agent in the Providence, RI Field Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations.
In 2005, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in the Boston Regional Office, where he supervised special agents and general investigators in offices throughout New England. In 2013, ASAC Correira became the Director of Inspections and Investigative Policy for the agency. He now writes and revises policies and procedures for the agency and conducts internal inspections to ensure that all offices are in compliance with policies and applicable laws. For the past several years, Jon-Paul has also overseen the HHS OIG OI outreach and recruitment program.
Jon-Paul is also the chair of the policy working group for the Council for the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), a group that he created and leads, which fosters collaboration and coordination among Federal Offices of Inspector General.
CPE credits
Three (3) total:
Two (2) ethics CPE credits
One (1) general CPE credit
Ethics CPE Requirements for CFEs
CFEs are required to earn two ethics CPE credits each year, because ethics are fundamental to the work that CFEs do and the way they do that work.
An organization’s ethical culture (or lack thereof) can have a significant impact on the incidence of fraud. CFEs need to understand ethics and how to develop programs to cultivate an ethical culture as part of a comprehensive anti-fraud strategy.
The work that CFEs do can have enormous repercussions on the reputation, livelihood or even the freedom of people involved. It is therefore crucial that CFEs adhere to the highest ethical standards at all times, and that they understand the implications and nuances involved in doing so.