16Track C

Red Flags for Infrastructure Fraud

• 09/12/2025
• 08:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.
• 4 hours

Course Description

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides $1.2 trillion in federal spending over the next five years mostly in grants and contracts to states and local governments for public transit, railways, power grids, electric vehicles and buses, ferries, airports, waterways, climate change, broadband internet, environmental protection, drinking water, and transformation safety. This program of fast-moving money, with untested controls, provides vast opportunities for fraud and waste. Auditors, investigators, and grants and contract managers at all levels of government will need to be especially vigilant for possible schemes and red flag indicators of fraud that robs the public of funds and performance.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the basics of IIJA, the agencies, the projects, and spending
• Understand the basics of fraud and auditors’ and investigators’ responsibilities
• Identify fraud schemes and indicators that are common to federally funded projects
• Learn investigative techniques to assist agents and auditors in discovering procurement fraud
• Understand the federal, civil, and criminal statutes that fraud schemes violate
• Understand the basics of control standards, applications, and indicators of control weaknesses and vulnerabilities

Who Should Attend?

APIPA conference sessions are intended for island government accountability professionals.  Audit, budget, finance, accounting, and related management and staff members will find interest and value in this presentation.

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