John Carey became Inspector General of Palm Beach County, Florida on June 23, 2014. His office oversees 42 separate government entities to include the County government and all municipalities within the county.

John is a retired U.S. Marine colonel and retired federal government senior executive. He has more than 46 years of government service in the areas of intelligence, operations, law enforcement, and Inspector General oversight. For the last 22 years, John has served in the Inspector General field. He was the Deputy Inspector General of the Marine Corps; the Deputy Inspector General for Director of National Intelligence; and finally, the Inspector General for the Defense Intelligence Agency before coming to Palm Beach County. John is on the Board of the Association of Inspectors General and the Chair of its Professional Certification Board. He is a Certified Inspector General, Certified Inspector General Auditor, and Certified Inspector General Inspector/Evaluator.

He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree (cum laude) from the Grace College, a Masters of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Masters of Arts in Christian Studies from Palm Beach Atlantic University. He also attended the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, the Federal Executive Institute, and the Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Glenda B. Arrington extensive professional portfolio spans over the public and private sector, academia, community outreach, and non-profit board leadership. She is the retired Inspector General for the Library of Congress. She is a certified Inspector General, certified Inspector General Inspector and Evaluator, and a certified Fraud Examiner. She oversees audits, inspections, and investigations into waste, fraud, and mismanagement. She is a Senior Executive Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School, a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, and a member of the Senior Executive Association. Dr. Arrington is a published author.

Isabel Mercedes Cumming is the Inspector General of Baltimore City, she is the first woman and Latina to ever be named to the post in January of 2018. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has flourished under her leadership having quadrupled the number of hotline complaints, achieving independence for the office and successfully growing the office from six to fourteen employees in just sixteen months. The OIG has had numerous high-profile cases and the OIG was able to achieve over a million dollars of documented savings for the citizens of Baltimore in the first year.

For six years prior, she was the Assistant Inspector General of Investigations for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system overseeing 200 reports of investigation and a team of fourteen. Previously she was the Chief of the Economic Crimes/Special Prosecutions Unit of the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office for over seven years. She started one of the first mortgage fraud units in the nation. Prior she was with the Economic Crimes Unit of Baltimore City for over four years handling hundreds of white-collar crime cases including identity theft, embezzlement and arson. For over six years she was an Assistant State Prosecutor with the Maryland State Prosecutor's Office handling high profile cases of elected officials throughout Maryland.

Ms. Cumming began her legal career at the United States Attorney’s Office as a law clerk where she specialized in investigating white-collar crimes. Prior she was the Director of Internal Audit for American National Bank in Baltimore for over seven years. She began her career with KPMG Peat Marwick in Baltimore as an auditor in 1984.

Ms. Cumming was named the Certified Fraud Fighter of the Year in 2006 and the first Top Fraud Fighter in Maryland in 2004 by the ACFE. She was named a Top 100 Women in Maryland three times by the Daily Record and recently a “Leader in Law”. She traveled to Amman, Jordan where she taught White Collar Prosecution to fifty judges and lawyers for the Rule of Law program. She is a both a Certified Inspector General and Certified Fraud Examiner. In 2019, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Inspector Generals. She previously taught Principles of Fraud Examination at the University of Baltimore and continues to serve on the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Law School. She earned an undergraduate degree in accounting from James Madison University, a master’s degree in Business Administration and a Juris Doctorate (law) degree with honors from the University of Baltimore.

Kalinthia Dillard became the Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General’s General Counsel in June 2015 and Deputy Inspector General in July 2017. After graduating from Clemson University (magna cum laude) and the Florida State University College of Law (cum laude), she moved to Palm Beach County to clerk at the 4th District Court of Appeal. Thereafter, she practiced civil litigation at private law firms and worked for the School District of Palm Beach County. She is a Certified Inspector General, Certified Inspector General Auditor, and Certified Inspector General Investigator.

Ms. Dillard currently serves as Vice President of the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches and Co-Chair of the PBC Bar Association’s Professionalism Committee. Ms. Dillard is an alumni of Leadership PBC and Leadership Florida Cornerstone- Class 39.

Ms. Dillard is a past president of the F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association; West Palm Beach (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated; YWCA of PBC; and Virgil Hawkins-Florida Chapter National Bar Association. Additionally, she is a past Chair of The Florida Bar’s Law Related Education, Education Law, Professional Ethics, and Grievance (15th Judicial Circuit-Division A) Committees. She was recognized by Florida Trend Magazine as a Legal Elite (Government) and received the PBC Chamber’s International Athena Award and the PBC Women’s Chamber Giraffe Award.

Quantral M. Fletcher Jr., is the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations in the Office of the Inspector General, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). In this capacity, Mr. Fletcher is responsible for conducting timely, thorough, fair, and independent audits, evaluations, investigations and special reviews relating to DCSA personnel and programs. As the DIG for Investigations, Mr. Fletcher oversees a staff of 34, with the primary responsibility of investigating allegations of misconduct involving DCSA’s federal and contractor staff. Mr. Fletcher’s prior assignments include the following: Investigative Program Specialist, United States Customs & Border Protection; Deputy IG, Defense Media Activity; Senior Investigator/Investigative Inquiries Operations Specialist, Department of the Air Force; Deputy IG, Naval District Washington;
Assistant IG Investigator for Training and Certification, Office of the Naval Inspector General
(NAVINSGEN); and Military Whistleblower Reprisal Investigator, NAVINSGEN. Additionally, Mr. Fletcher served as a Criminal Investigator, Joint Drug Enforcement Team Investigator, Security Forces Flight Chief, and in other United States Air Force (USAF) positions from 2006 to 2014.
He was responsible for supporting a base populace of 44,000 personnel and $8.1 billion in joint base facilities through criminal investigative activities. He gathered intelligence, collected evidence, and conducted interviews to promote thorough investigations, yielding comprehensive case reports. Mr. Fletcher served as a liaison with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, United States Army Criminal Investigation Division, local/state police agencies, the FBI, and a host of other law enforcement agencies. He is a decorated USAF veteran and has served within the United States and abroad. His management of multi-functional teams and multi-disciplinary projects were critical to the operational success and vital to the USAF. He supports a multitude of local community programs as a leader and mentor. He has received many outstanding civilian and military recognition and leadership awards. Mr. Fletcher earned an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Police Science from the Community College of the Air Force and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Technical Management and Security from DeVry University. He has garnered multiple
certifications and attended several advanced IG and Criminal Investigative training courses. He serves on the Charles County Police Accountability Board and the Board of Directors for the Association of Inspectors General. He is also a proud life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated.

Erik Halvorson currently serves as an Operations Officer focused on anti-fraud programs for DOE’s new funding. As an agent, he specialized in financial fraud and public corruption investigations. He has 17 years of federal law enforcement experience including both domestic and international work. Erik enjoys using advanced analysis techniques to proactively detect and investigate fraud. A Columbia University graduate, he holds degrees in criminal justice, accounting, and applied analytics. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program where his dissertation will focus on text mining and sentiment analysis as a method to help inform emergency responses.

Finally, Erik started a small consulting business (Archimedes Evaluation Services) to help other businesses and non-profits with psychometrics, analytics, statistical analyses, program evaluations, research, and anti-fraud consulting.

Dr. Matthew D. Harris serves as the Deputy Inspector General for Investigation (DAIGI) for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG) and oversees all investigative field operations across the United States. Prior to joining HUD OIG, he served as the United States Marshal for the District of Utah. He was appointed by the President and confirmed unanimously by the by the United States Senate. He was responsible for overseeing all district operations including Court Operations, Judicial Security, and the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Force (VFAST) and overseeing a jail population over rover 600 federal prisoners.

Dr. Harris brings supervisory experience from five prior federal agencies. He has taken an active leadership role in the federal law enforcement community, serving on several professional boards, publishing research in multiple peer-reviewed journals on police leadership and government oversight, and Inspectors General. He served as a regular panelist and guest speaker at national law enforcement conferences. Prior to his appointment, Harris served as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the United States Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General, where his role included oversight of headquarters investigative programs such as asset forfeiture, undercover and quality assurance oversight.

From 2008 to 2011, Harris served as the Assistant Director for Criminal Investigations at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he managed the investigative operations and conducted investigations with the House Government on Oversight and Reform and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. From 2000 to 2006, Harris served in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Salt Lake City and was also the Acting Resident Agent in Charge. Harris began his Federal law enforcement career in 1996, with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Dr. Harris holds a doctorate in Business Administration from Northcentral University, a Master of Public Administration from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Bachelor of Science degrees in public administration and criminal justice from Kutztown University. His research experience focuses on the IG community. He has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where he also developed curriculum for graduate-level courses within the Master of Public Administration program. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Inspectors General. He holds the designations of Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Inspector General (CIG).

Nick Macedonia is a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Inspector General (OIG) in Washington, D.C. He has worked in the Federal anti-fraud community in various roles for approximately 13 years and became a criminal investigator in August 2015. Nick has extensive experience in both supporting and leading Federal criminal, civil, and administrative investigations and proactive reviews, the results of which have included criminal prosecution, civil settlement, suspension and debarment, and the administrative recovery of government funds. Nick has also been an agency-level firearms and defensive tactics instructor and has taught fraud-related topics for entities including the Federal Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy and the Association of Government Accountants.

Nick earned Bachelor's degrees in Biology and Spanish and a Minor in Astronomy at the University of Virginia (UVA). Following graduation, he took additional business and accounting classes at the Northern Virginia Community College and earned a Certificate in Accounting from UVA. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. In his spare time, Nick enjoys competitive swimming and spending time with his wife and four young children.

Joe received his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Florida State University School of Business where he also has degrees in Finance and Marketing. He currently serves as the Vice President for Audit at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (an Inspector General equivalent post). He previously served as City Auditor for the City of Tallahassee and before that Inspector General and Director of Compliance for the State University System of Florida Board of Governors. Joe has over 29 years of service in State of Florida government, serving primarily in Offices of Inspector General and serving as Inspector General for four state agencies.

Joe is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Inspector General (CIG), Certified Inspector General Investigator (CIGI), Certified Inspector General Auditor (CIGA), Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP), and Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP). Joe is an active member of several professional organizations including the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), ISACA, Association of Government Accountants (AGA), Association of Inspectors General (AIG), and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Joe and his wife Tracey reside in Tallahassee, Florida. In his personal life he prides himself on being a devoted husband and father of four, third degree black belt in TaeKwonDo, proficient woodworker/handyman, avid runner, triathlete, and obstacle course racer.

Flora Miller started her career in state government in 2000 (Public Assistance Eligibility and Public Assistance Fraud Investigations), joining the Office of Inspector General in approximately 2003, serving as a Regional Investigator and Regional Investigator Supervisor. She currently serves as both a Regional Investigator (covering portions of the Central, Northeast, SunCoast, and Southeast Regions), as well as the Accreditation Manager for her agency.

Mrs. Miller is a Team Leader for Inspector General Assessments for the Florida Commission for Law Enforcement Accreditation (CFA) and has completed over 25 assessments (mock, onsite, and technical assistance) as both Team Leader and Team Member. She has also completed approximately 20 Peer Reviews, serving as both Team Leader and Team Member for the Association of Inspectors General Peer Review Committee, and is the current Chair of the AIG's Peer Review Committee. Mrs. Miller is an instructor for the Florida Police Accreditation Coalition (FLA-PAC) and the AIG Institute. She holds certifications as a Certified Inspector General Investigator (CIGI) through the AIG and Certified Accreditation Professional (CAP) through the FLA-PAC. In her downtime, Mrs. Miller is active in the martial arts community with her husband sanctioning amateur competitive events through the Florida Boxing Commission, as well as in the Bahamas.

Stuart Robinson is the Director of Investigations for the Palm Beach County, Florida Office of Inspector General. He oversees the OIG’s Intake and Investigation programs, and is dedicated to producing valuable, accurate, insightful investigative conclusions based on credible allegations. Prior to joining the Palm Beach County OIG in October of 2017, Mr. Robinson spent 26 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent, specializing in public corruption, financial crimes, and civil rights matters, and then was the Supervisor of Investigations for the Broward County Office of the Inspector General. Mr. Robinson has Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctorate degrees from Indiana University, and is a Certified Inspector General and Certified Inspector General Investigator.

Pat Russo is a member of the Association of Inspectors General Board of Directors. Pat served as the Treasurer of the Association for more than a decade, and still serves on the Finance Committee.
In 1990, he graduated from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York with a B.A. in History cum laude. Pat then attended Brooklyn Law School and graduated as a member of the class of 1993.
After graduating from law school, Pat began working at Cullen and Dykman, where he represented a variety of financial institutions, corporations and individuals. In 1997, he began a career in public service when he was asked to serve as Counsel to the Office of the New York State Welfare Inspector General by Inspector General (and former Association President) Paul Balukas, where he led and supervised investigations and criminal prosecutions of fraud, abuse and corruption involving social services contractors, employees and recipients. Pat continued in public service when he was appointed an Administrative Law Judge for the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (“TLC”). Pat was elevated to the Appeals Unit, and was subsequently appointed as the TLC’s Chief Administrative Law Judge.
In 2007, Pat joined the NYC Department of Investigation (“DOI”) as Inspector General for the City’s social services agencies. At DOI, he supervised and led public corruption investigations involving public servants, contractors, and elected officials. Most notably, Pat spearheaded the federal corruption prosecution of a former NYC Councilmember for using discretionary funding for personal and political gain, as well as numerous, successful state and federal prosections of public officials and contractors who had defradued the City.
In March 2012, Pat joined Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP as Special Counsel. He provides counseling to corporations, non-profit organizations and individuals on a variety of matters, including internal investigations, integrity monitoring and corporate governance. Pat was promoted to Partner in April 2016.
In March 2014, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo appointed Pat, with the consent of the NYS Senate, to the MTA Inspector General Management Advisory Board, where Pat still serves.
Since 2001, Pat has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he instructs courses in the Master in Public Administration Inspector General Program.
Pat served as the Treasurer of the Association of Inspectors General from 2011 to Decemebr 2022. In addition, Pat completed the Certified Inspector General Institute in August 2008 and attained the designation of Certified Inspector General. Since 2014, Pat has served as an instructor for the Legal Issues program of the Certified Inspector General and Certified Inspector General Investigator programs.
From 2015 to 2021, Pat has served as a Board Member for the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (CAPI) at Columbia University Law School. CAPI is currently inactive.

Erica Smith graduated from the University of Florida with her Master of Accounting in 2005 and Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 2003. Erica Smith started her career as an auditor with KPMG, LLP in Miami, Florida. She transferred to the New Orleans office in 2008. In 2010, she joined the City of New Orleans Office of Inspector General (OIG) and has served as the Deputy Inspector General for Audit since March 2016. During her tenure, the audit department has identified approximately $21 million in savings to the City of New Orleans. In July 2022, Erica accepted the Deputy Inspector General position with the Jefferson Parish OIG where she will supervise audits and evaluations.

Erica Smith is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a Certified Inspector General Auditor (CIGA). She is also an adjunct instructor at the University of New Orleans and University of Holy Cross in New Orleans where teaches Advanced Accounting, Auditing, and various other accounting-related courses. Erica has presented to the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and the Association of Inspectors General (AIG) on various fraud-related topics.

Erica is also active in the audit community. She is on the AIG Board of Directors and serves on the IIA Board of Governors for New Orleans.

Stephen Street has served as Louisiana's Inspector General since 2008, and is the immediate past President of the National Association of Inspectors General (AIG). The mission of the Louisiana Inspector General is to investigate white collar criminal and public corruption cases, and to root out and prevent fraud and corruption in government.

Mr. Street received his law degree in 1989 from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University. Most of his 30 plus years as an attorney have been spent in the field of criminal law at the state and federal levels, first as a criminal staff lawyer with the Third Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles, and then later both defending and prosecuting serious criminal cases. Mr. Street has extensive experience as lead trial counsel in a wide variety of cases, from capital murder to complex white collar and economic crime.

Since becoming Louisiana's Inspector General, Mr. Street has overseen the transformation of the office from an internal audit shop into a fully functioning statutorily empowered law enforcement agency. Experience has demonstrated that the most effective way to ensure integrity in government is to hold those who violate the public trust criminally accountable whenever the evidence warrants. In addition, other desired outcomes, such as improved internal controls and safeguards designed to better prevent and detect criminal fraud and corruption, are often achieved more quickly and with greater public support in the wake of successful criminal prosecutions. The Louisiana OIG therefore focuses primarily on fraud and public corruption investigations, with results that speak for themselves. Since transitioning to law enforcement, the Inspector General has experienced great success, working numerous criminal cases, both independently and with law enforcement partners. (Case highlights available at www.oig.louisiana.gov).

Mr. Street is a Certified Inspector General (CIG), and regularly conducts training for law enforcement, prosecutors, inspectors general and other oversight personnel on white collar and economic crime investigation. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and also continues to serve as an NW3C Adjunct Instructor, teaching courses on Financial Investigation Practical Skills (FIPS) offered to law enforcement throughout the United States.

Adam Scott Wandt is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Vice Chair for Technology of the Department of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is a member of the graduate faculty in the Master of Public Administration program and the Master of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security program.

Professor Wandt is a practicing Attorney and Counselor-at-Law (New York). He has worked on sponsored research for, or in partnership with, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Interpol, the United Nations, Sprint, BlackBoard, Entourage, the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics, as well as law enforcement and educational institutions from around the world.

His primary research and consulting interests include technology law and policy, information security, investigative/surveillance technology, OSINT, cryptocurrency, darknet, social engineering, and UCR crime data. He has over two decades of experience developing custom investigative, forensic, educational, and data management solutions for federal, state and local government agencies. Along with two co-principal investigators, he has recently been awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice to study fentanyl sales on the dark web.

Deborah Witzburg serves as Inspector General for the City of Chicago, leading Chicago’s independent, non-partisan watchdog agency charged with promoting economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity in City government. Previously, she served as the City’s Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety, conducting oversight of Chicago’s police and police accountability agencies. She also served as OIG’s Chief Investigator for Public Safety, OIG’s Associate General Counsel for Public Safety, and as an Assistant Inspector General. Witzburg previously worked as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, where she prosecuted a wide range of misdemeanor and felony cases and worked closely with law enforcement agencies and community stakeholders. She is a Certified Inspector General by the Association of Inspectors General and a Certified Practitioner of Oversight by the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement. Witzburg earned a BA in Anthropology from Brown University and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law; she is licensed to practice law in Illinois.