Morgan Magionos
Morgan Magionos is a vice president in the Risk, Investigations & Analytics practice at CRA. She is based in Washington, D.C. and specializes in forensic accounting and investigations involving allegations of fraud, corruption, and money laundering. Additionally, she has provided forensic accounting assistance to a US Department of Justice (DOJ) appointed monitor, pursuant to a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) resolution.
Ms. Magionos assists law firms and public and private companies with complex fraud-related matters involving securities, investment, and other financial fraud, bribery and corruption (FCPA), and has provided expert assistance and testimony. She has also led teams in the execution of risk identification, assessment, and high-risk transaction analysis and testing, to detect and mitigate fraud and corruption risks globally.
Ms. Magionos was a forensic accountant with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) where she investigated high-yield investment fraud, corporate and securities fraud, mass marketing fraud, public corruption, and fraud against the government. In 2016, she joined the International Corruption Squad at the FBI Washington Field Office, where she conducted investigations involving the FCPA and kleptocracy with prosecutors from the DOJ.
She gained national prominence when she was assigned to the Special Counsel’s Office and led a complex financial investigation spanning four countries related to a $15.5 million tax fraud and money laundering scheme, by a former presidential campaign manager and others. She created exhibits demonstrating financial tracing of foreign and domestic bank accounts, identified and traced assets, and testified as a fact witness at a federal criminal jury trial in the Eastern District of Virginia which led to a conviction.
She has presented on forensic accounting, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and corruption on behalf of various programs in jurisdictions around the world. Currently, Ms. Magionos provides anti-corruption and anti-money laundering investigative training support to the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, a not-for-profit organization, and has worked with law enforcement, prosecutors, financial intelligence, and auditors in Eswatini, Tajikistan, and South Africa. She was named to Global Investigations Review’s Women in Investigations 2021 list.
Ms. Magionos received a Bachelor of Music in cello performance from Manhattan School of Music and received a Post-Baccalaureate Accounting Certificate from Portland State University. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Oregon and a Certified Fraud Examiner.