Ronald Leazer III

Ronald Leazer III is a court-qualified money-laundering expert and former member of IRS Criminal Investigation’s (IRS-CI) nationwide Money Laundering Expert Witness cadre. He has more than twenty-four years of experience. He has testified before federal grand juries, magistrate judges, district court judges, and trial juries in matters involving complex financial crimes. His expertise includes identifying, developing, investigating, tracing, and explaining sophisticated money-laundering schemes and financial and monetary transactions associated with major fraud matters. This includes oil and gas investment fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billing schemes, Paycheck Protection Program relief fraud, mail and wire fraud, and the laundering of proceeds derived from narcotics trafficking and other criminal activity. He also has extensive experience identifying, tracing, and recovering assets subject to forfeiture and preparing affidavits in support of federal seizure warrants.

As a special agent with IRS-CI, Mr. Leazer conducted and led complex investigations involving money laundering, tax evasion, financial institution fraud, securities fraud, healthcare fraud, mail and wire fraud, and Bank Secrecy Act violations, including structuring offenses. As IRS-CI’s embedded liaison to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, he advised federal prosecutors and law enforcement personnel on investigative strategy, grand jury matters, trial preparation, and the application of money laundering statutes. He also served as IRS-CI’s Eastern District of Texas Suspicious Activity Report Coordinator, reviewing and analyzing suspicious activity reports (SARs) submitted by financial institutions to identify suspicious financial activity warranting further investigation and referral to IRS-CI special agents, other law enforcement agencies, and federal prosecutors.

Mr. Leazer held acting supervisory positions overseeing tax and financial crimes investigative groups in Los Angeles and Oakland, California. Throughout his career, he has developed and delivered training on money laundering, asset tracing, financial investigative techniques, and accounting methods of proof for federal prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, accounting professionals, and university students.

Mr. Leazer is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.