APRI Highlights - Winter 2002

White Collar Crime Program

Sean Morgan, Director

APRI is pleased to welcome Sean Morgan to the White Collar Crime (WCC) Program. Sean is the program manager and senior attorney for the unit. Sean brings several years of prosecutorial experience from the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he prosecuted white-collar, narcotics and homicide cases for District Attorney Robert H. (“Bob”) Macy.

With continued funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), APRI is working in partnership with the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and AARP to help prosecutors and other law enforcement professionals prevent, investigate and prosecute telemarketing fraud in their jurisdictions.

Recently, APRI, with assistance from its grant partners, completed an overview of the BJA-funded telemarketing fraud effort, highlighting the accomplishments and interactions of the four grant partners since the program’s inception in 1997. To date, APRI and its partners have conducted 26 training programs, reaching more than 1,750 prosecutors, investigators and victim advocates nationwide.

In response to recent events, APRI is developing resources to help prosecutors combat financial abuse of the elderly through charitable contribution scams and similar types of fraudulent schemes. Often, these schemes extend beyond financial abuse and branch into identity theft when perpetrators gain access to victims’ social security numbers, home and work addresses, credit card and bank account numbers. APRI is developing resources to assist prosecutors in detecting identity theft and successfully pursuing criminal charges against offenders.

For more information about APRI's White Collar Crime Program, please contact whitecollar@ndaa-apri.org.