Our Firm

Ron Braver was an IRS Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent with more than 25 years of experience. Ron was also a senior manager with an international public accounting firm managing their forensic accounting, investigation and dispute services practice in Chicago. Ron uses his resourcefulness, knowledge, skills and diverse contacts to assemble teams to efficiently solve client issues big or small.

Ron has diverse fraud, money laundering, and asset forfeiture investigative experience. This experience includes high profile investigations involving corporate fraud; criminal tax; failed banks and savings and loans; bankruptcy, securities, foreign exchange and mortgage fraud; Ponzi schemes; inflated billing schemes; sophisticated pension fraud schemes; healthcare fraud; identity thefts; illegal immigration employment schemes, false government claims; embezzlement schemes, public corruption and bribery; organized crime, and international drug and local drug street gang organizations.

Ron also has over 10 years of commercial and residential mortgage origination experience as an owner and executive of a mortgage brokerage business. Ron has deep knowledge of underwriting guidelines for both FNMA and FREDDIE conforming loans, non – conforming loans including guidelines relating to loans exceeding the conforming loan limits, Alt-A and sub-prime. Ron’s knowledge includes mortgage banking and title company operations.

Ron’s experience since leaving the government includes white collar defense consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, insolvency opinion, investigations involving fraudulent transfers, piercing the corporate veil, owner/partner disputes, harassment claims, divorce litigation, asset tracing, damage analysis, ethics and compliance consulting and expert testimony.

Ron has made presentations to IRS, FDIC, Illinois CPA Society, Law Enforcement contingent from the Italian government and the Chicago Chapter for the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist and Law and Accounting firms. These speaking engagements include presentations on badges of fraud, preparation of proper criminal fraud referrals, voluntary disclosure program, the role of Criminal Investigation within the law enforcement community and IRS, and how a Financial Institution should complete an effective Suspicious Activity Report and how Law Enforcement uses them.