Meeting/Event Information

SAVE THE DATE for our last event of the year.

Topic: THE GREATEST FRAUD IN A GENERATION & PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

In this keynote, United States’ Small Business Administration (SBA) – Office of Inspector General’s National Disaster Program Director Michelle Blank will address the Fraud Landscape facing the nation’s IG and law enforcement community in the aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic; and, how we can move forward to proactively combat fraud, waste, and abuse in the future. Recently, the SBA Office of Inspector General (OIG) released their Fraud Landscape Report that provided an in-depth review that resulted in a comprehensive estimate of the potential fraud in the SBA’s pandemic assistance loan programs. 

Location:  Zoom

Speaker:  Michelle Blank, Supervisory Special Agent, National Disaster Program Director

Michelle Blank is currently the National Disaster Program Director at the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General (SBA-OIG). In this role, Director Blank is responsible for nationwide coordination of the investigative work involving SBA Disaster Programs to include the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, and traditional SBA Disaster Loans.  Through Director Blank’s leadership and expertise, she has assisted in the facilitation of a coordinated “whole of government” law enforcement response to rampant fraud identified in SBA’s EIDL Program and significant fraud within the PPP.  Her efforts have resulted in over $1 billion of EIDL funds seized and several billion of program funds returned from the financial institutions to the SBA and PPP lenders. 

Prior to joining the SBA-OIG, Director Blank was a Special Agent with Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) for fourteen years. Director Blank has worked on a variety of investigations including high profile and multi-agency cases involving tax evasion, money laundering, bribery, false statements, bank fraud and other related financial crimes.