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 David Siegwald is a retired IRS Special 
                    Agent and a former Certified Fraud Examiner. After concluding 
                    a 20-year career with the IRS-Criminal Investigation Division 
                    in 1994, Mr. Siegwald owned and operated a fraud and financial 
                    investigative agency in Sarasota Florida for seven years. 
                    Subsequently, he joined Chase 
                    & Associates, where he specializes in tax 
                    and other complex financial investigations. Mr. Siegwald is a former Marine Corps 
                    officer and Vietnam Veteran. He holds a Masters Degree in 
                    Business Administration that he earned at Loyola University 
                    in New Orleans. He began his law enforcement career as a Special 
                    Agent in 1974 and spent his entire career as an investigator. 
                    During his years with the IRS, he conducted investigations 
                    of various individuals and organizations, usually in the illegal 
                    income sector, which operated both in the U.S. and abroad. 
                    His investigations resulted in successful prosecutions of 
                    individuals for income tax evasion, money laundering, perjury, 
                    bank fraud, operating a continuing criminal enterprise, and 
                    mail fraud. Since Mr. Siegwald began working 
                    in the private sector, he has provided litigation support 
                    to attorneys in both the criminal and civil areas. He has 
                    assisted counsel with respect to allegations of income tax 
                    evasion, Medicare fraud, money laundering, arson, insider 
                    trading, embezzlement, operating confidence schemes and currency 
                    crimes. He has also worked with various corporations in the 
                    pursuit of fraud detection. In one such matter, his efforts 
                    resulted in the recovery of more than $1 million for his client. In 2001, Mr. Siegwald was selected 
                    as a law enforcement instructor at the IRS National Criminal 
                    Investigation Training Academy. For approximately one year, 
                    he instructed new Special Agents in various courses relating 
                    to methods of conducting financial investigations, analyzing 
                    financial records and documents for indications of fraud, 
                    income tax evasion, money laundering, and currency crimes.
 
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