Kevin L. Perkins
Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
December 9, 2009
Quote from statement press release:
"Proactive Approach to Financial Fraud
In addition to tripling the number of FBI special agents who investigate mortgage fraud cases in the field, the FBI has implemented a number of innovative and proactive methods to detect and combat mortgage fraud and other significant financial frauds. Foremost is the development of the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC). The FIC was established on September 14, 2009 with resources appropriated by Congress, through H.R. 2346, Supplemental Appropriations Act, to the FBI to investigate mortgage fraud, predatory lending, market manipulation, and other financial frauds. The FIC is currently staffed with one supervisory intelligence analyst, eight staff operations specialists, and six intelligence analysts. In FY 2010, the FIC should be fully operational with a total staffing level of 58. The FIC’s mission is to provide tactical analysis of intelligence data, data sets, and databases by using evolving technology and data exploitation techniques to create targeting packages to identify the most egregious criminal offenders and to enhance current criminal investigations."
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