{"id":10885,"date":"2012-10-18T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T00:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2021-02-12T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:34:26","slug":"fbi-agent-hosts-talk-on-detecting-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/18\/fbi-agent-hosts-talk-on-detecting-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI agent hosts talk on detecting scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at\u00a0M&#257;noa&#8217;s Financial Literacy Program will present a free\u00a0public talk,\u00a0Protecting the Nest Egg: Detecting Scams in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Tom Simon on Thursday, October 25, 4:30\u00a0p.m.\u00a0at Webster Hall 203.<\/p>\n<p>Simon joined the <abbr>FBI<\/abbr> in 1995 and currently investigates high-yield investment frauds, major embezzlements and traditional white-collar crimes\u00a0in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.\u00a0Simon serves as press spokeman for the Honolulu <abbr>FBI<\/abbr> office, and appears regularly on local news programs and radio talk shows.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to transferring to the <abbr>FBI<\/abbr> Honolulu office, he\u00a0worked at the <abbr>FBI<\/abbr> Chicago office for 14 years, where he investigated financial crimes, counter-terrorism and political corruption. Following the 9\/11 attacks, he was assigned to a team of special agents who dismantled several Islamic charities funneling money to Al Qaeda and other extremist groups. As his final case in Chicago,\u00a0Simon was on the team of agents who investigated Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, which culminated in the politician&#8217;s conviction for attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP is required. Register online. For disability accommodations, call (808) 956-6572.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s Financial Literacy Program hosts a free public talk, Protecting the Nest Egg: Detecting Scams in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135431,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions\/135431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}