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The 12th Mid-Atlantic INLETS:
Violent Crimes & Terrorism Trends
The VC & TT seminar returns home to Annapolis with an agenda focused on identifying and investigating extremism, radicalization, hate, and violent crimes. The topics are presented through case studies, multi-session workshops, and breakouts.
This course is designed for local, state, federal, and military/Intel investigators and analysts and risk and safety practitioners.
***WARNING: INLETS PROVIDES TRAINING AND CASE STUDIES ON HEINOUS VIOLENT CRIMES AND ACTS OF TERRORISM. THE MATERIAL SHARED IS GRAPHIC IN NATURE, INCLUDING: VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS, PHOTOS, AND VIDEOS. ATTENDEES ARE ADVISED THAT DISTURBING AND/OR OFFENSIVE MATERIAL MAY BE INCLUDED IN PRESENTATIONS. WARNING***
Tribute to Heroes Keynote: Ben Hall
We are honored to welcome Benjamin Hall, war correspondent, as our Keynote Speaker.
During Monday night’s plated dinner, Hall will share his inspirational story. Included in registration. Attendees may purchase tickets for their guests.
The Week's Topics
Featured Case Studies:
- The Full Complete Case Study of the USS Cole Attack, Response, Investigations and ultimate Justice with Kirk Lippold, CDR, USN, (ret.) Tom O’Connor, FBI Agent and ERT Team Leader (ret.), Jack Peterson, FBI Special Agent
- Novichok Attempted Assassination case study with New Scotland Yard
- The Chattanooga, TN Military Recruiting Station case study with Brian O’Hare, FBI (ret.) and Lt. Sean O’Brien, Chattanooga PD.
- The US Holocaust Museum Hate Crime case study with Tom O’Connor, FBI Special Agent (ret.)
- Human Trafficking case study with Joyce King and Task Force INTERCEPT
Topics & Tools:
- Forensic Anthropology and Burned Remains with Darren Solomon, ATF
- Threat Mapping & Profiling with Erik Kleinsmith, Intelligence Solutions Architect, Leidos
- Preparing for $%*#! Defense Attorneys with Sam Braverman, ESQ.
- Victim Assistance in Mass Casualty Events with Lori Wolkoff, FBIHQ
- Social Media Exploitation with FBI and ATF (pending)
- Extremism and Hate Motivated Terrorist Attacks with New Scotland Yard
- Interview and Interrogation with Ralph Cilento, Putnam County (NY) Prosecutors Office and Lt., NYPD (ret.)
- Post Blast Investigations with Tom O’Connor, FBI ERT (ret.)
- Investigative Genetic Genealogy with Mark James, FBI BAU program
- Interview and Interrogation with Ralph Cilento, Putnam County (NY) Prosecutors Office and Lt., NYPD (ret.)
Featured Instructors:
Kirk Lippold
CDR., US Navy (ret.) USS Cole✕Kirk Lippold
CDR., US Navy (ret.) USS ColeCommander Kirk Lippold, USN (Ret.) was the Commanding Officer of the USS Cole when it came under a suicide terrorist attack by al Qaeda in the port of Aden, Yemen. During his command, he and his crew distinguished themselves by saving the American war ship from sinking. This event is widely recognized as one of the most brazen acts of terrorism by al Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001.
Today, Commander Lippold is a popular inspirational figure and leadership speaker who remains in high demand with Fortune 500 companies, leading financial institutions, top industry associations, the Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and state-level governments, both in the United States and internationally.
Ralph Cilento
Lt. NYPD Detective Training Bureau (ret.)✕Ralph Cilento
Lt. NYPD Detective Training Bureau (ret.)Ralph Cilento, Lt. Commander, NYPD Detective Training Bureau (ret.), is a strategic law enforcement leader with a record of accomplishment in transformational change and a proven background developing law enforcement professionals to meet contemporary and emerging law enforcement and security challenges. He is mission driven with a valuable blend of leadership, creativity, and tenacity to drive concepts into programs with measurable results. Ralph Cilento is a skilled communicator with extensive experience delivering training programs and speaking in domestic and international forums on a wide range of law enforcement topics.
Tom O’Connor
FedSquare Consulting, FBI Special Agent (ret.)✕Tom O’Connor
FedSquare Consulting, FBI Special Agent (ret.)Tom O’Connor, Special Agent (ret.), entered on duty with the FBI in 1997. SA O’Connor was assigned to work in the Washington Field Office on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and during this time SA O’Connor has worked both International and Domestic Terrorism cases. Prior to entering on duty with the FBI, SA O’Connor was a Police Officer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where he worked for 15 years as a Municipal Officer leaving for the FBI at the rank of Detective Sergeant. As a Police Officer, SA O’Connor specialized in narcotics and violent gang investigations.
SA O’Connor served as the program coordinator for investigations involving criminal activity/violence conducted by racially motivated and antigovernment violent extremists in the Washington Field office area of responsibility. These investigations include neo-Nazi and other hate-based groups as well as lone actors. SA O’Connor was Case Agent for both the Pentagon lone offender shooting and the Family Research Council lone offender shooting. SA O’Connor was a Team Leader on the Washington Field Office, Evidence Response Team (WFO ERT). In this capacity, SA O’Connor has led forensic teams to multiple terrorist attacks around the globe. These deployments include the 1998 Nairobi Embassy bombing, two deployments to Kosovo in 1999 for war crimes investigations, the 2000 USS Cole attack in Aden Yemen. SA O’Connor served an evidence team coordinator at the 9-11 attack on the US Pentagon, responded to the 2006 attack on the US Consulate in Karachi Pakistan, and deployed six times to Iraq and three times to Afghanistan. SA O’Connor processed evidence at both the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting and the Virginia Beach government building shooting. SA O’Connor specialized in Post-Blast Investigation and shooting reconstruction evidence recovery.
In 2005 SA O’Connor was assigned to investigate hostage takings in Iraq Theater of operations. During this deployment, SA O’Connor was involved in the rescue of US Citizen Roy Hallums who had been held by extremists for 311 days.
SA O’Connor has provided instruction on Domestic and International Terrorism issues across the United States and overseas. In 2004, SA O’Connor was awarded the Department of Justice “Instructor of the Year” award and was named as an FBI “Master Police Instructor” in 2010 and is a certified Adjunct Faculty member for the FBI Academy.
SA O’Connor is a 2011 graduate of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany where he continues to instruct as an Adjunct Faculty member.
SA O’Connor served as a member of the FBI Agents Associations (FBIAA) National Executive Board for three years, as the Vice President for seven years and President for 3 years, retiring from the FBI on September 11, 2019. This date was chosen to honor the FBI Agents who had passed due to the 9-11 attack and the illnesses related to that terrorist attack.
Brian O’Hare
FBI Special Agent, Evidence Response Team (ret.)✕Brian O’Hare
FBI Special Agent, Evidence Response Team (ret.)SA Brian O’Hare (Retired) joined the FBI in 1999 and was assigned to the Knoxville division. He worked on both National Security and Criminal matters prior to taking a promotion to FBIHQ in 2009-2010. In 2011 he returned to the Knoxville division, Johnson City RA. In addition to his cases, SA O’Hare was a member and team leader on the Evidence Response Team for 21 years. Prior to joining the FBI, he served as a police officer for 13 years in the state of Texas. SA O’Hare earned a B.S. degree in Law Enforcement and Police Science in 1986 from Sam Houston State University and he is a 1994 graduate of the Law Enforcement Command College of Texas. Prior to joining the FBI he attended the FBI National Academy (NA-196). He retired from the FBI in September 2023.
Erik Kleinsmith
Intelligence Solutions Architect, Leidos✕Erik Kleinsmith
Intelligence Solutions Architect, LeidosIntelligence Solutions Architect, Leidos
Erik Kleinsmith has over 30 years experience in intelligence and security as a U.S. Army military intelligence officer, defense contractor, academic, author and cold case investigator. Erik gained US national notoriety related to his involvement in the Able Danger program as the military lead of a team of analysts profiling and mapping Al Qaeda prior to 9/11.
In the commercial environment as defense contractor, Erik created a series of intelligence training courses and programs for the US Army and other Intel Community members growing his portfolio to over 150 instructors and over $30 Million (US) in annual revenue.
He is one of the main subjects of the 2010 book, “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State” by Shane Harris and is the vice-chairman of The Case Breakers, a private investigative group that has tackled cold cases such as DB Cooper, the Zodiac Killer, and Jimmy Hoffa of which the Cooper Case has been turned into a docuseries on Netflix in June 2022. Erik is also the author of many related articles and the 2020 book entitled Intelligence Operations: Understanding Data, Tools, People, and Processes.
Joyce King
Chief Counsel✕Joyce King
Chief CounselJoyce King is Chief Counsel at the Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office. She is the Chief Prosecutor of the Frederick County Cybercrimes Taskforce and serves on the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce. Ms. King is a board member for the National District Attorneys Association Digital Safety Advisory Board to combat online abuse, digital scams, human trafficking, and other technology related issues that impact public safety. She completed specialized Digital Evidence Training with the United States Secret Service National Computer Forensics Institute and is cross designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice Project Safe Childhood.
In addition to prosecution, Ms. King manages operations and communications of the State’s Attorney’s Office, serves on the Legislative Committee for the Maryland State’s Attorney Association, and provides legal counsel for multi-agency criminal justice policy initiatives and projects. Ms. King is an alumni of George Washington University, American University: Women & Politics Institute, and the David A. Clarke School of Law.
Sam Braverman
Nat'l Co-Chair White Collar Defense Group, AndersonKill PC✕Sam Braverman
Nat'l Co-Chair White Collar Defense Group, AndersonKill PCShareholder and National Co-Chair White Collar Defense Group, AndersonKill PC
Samuel Braverman is a shareholder in the New York office of Anderson Kill and co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense Group.
Sam has been practicing law in the courtroom, at both the trial and the appellate level, for more than three decades and has conducted more than 100 trials as lead counsel. He represents individuals and corporate clients in complex and sensitive criminal and regulatory matters, and his practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, including securities fraud, commercial bribery, honest services fraud, conspiracy, bank fraud, Stark violations, and tax litigation. He has won acquittals in high profile cases, and he has represented clients in more than 40 state counties, 10 federal districts, and before investigative agencies such as FINRA, SEC, state medical boards, the Commission on Judicial Conduct, and Attorney disciplinary committees. He has won reversals on appeal at the New York State Court of Appeals, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States and he has won writs of habeas corpus in the SDNY.
Sam’s decades of work in white collar criminal defense include extensive experience in corporate internal investigation, FCPA, AML, and Anti-Bribery investigation, Title IX investigation, and fraud investigation that arise out of civil investigation. His services include meeting with agents, investigators, prosecutors and adversaries, and negotiating a declined or deferred prosecution whenever possible; representing corporations and individuals subpoenaed to the grand jury; extensive discovery and motion practice to limit client liability; bench and jury trials; sentence mitigation; state and federal appeals; and post-conviction relief motion practice.
Sam has represented judges and prosecutors, board presidents and directors, doctors and lawyers, hedge fund managers and salesmen. Sam also provides strategic and tactical legal advice to small and growing companies and their executives. He is a trained mediator in commercial litigation and is often called in to negotiate, arbitrate, or mediate commercial or intra-corporate disputes.
Sam has worked as a prosecutor, a law professor, an author, and a public defender, is a frequent lecturer for CLEs on trial practice around the country and is a frequent commentator in media on trials of national interest. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer in New York and New Jersey since 2013.
The Tribute to Heroes Evening Program
Keynote: Benjamin Hall
Benjamin Hall is veteran war reporter and has worked in war zones like Syria and Afghanistan. Last spring, in Ukraine, Hall and his crew were hit by a multi-sequential Russian drone strike. Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshinova, who were working alongside him, were killed. Hall himself was gravely injured.
He joins us to share how his spirit has remained undaunted, buoyed by that remarkable corps of people from around the world – whose collective determination ensured his survival, his coworkers who fought for his safe return, and his family who supported him at every turn. Ultimately, this trauma, the greatest of his life, serves as a pivotal reminder to us all of the fundamental goodness in the world, illuminating how the horrors of war can bring about the best in humanity, and how everything can change in an instant.
Books available for purchase. Meet & Greet with book signing during reception, prior to the evening program.
The Fallen Officers Tribute
The Fallen Officers Tribute reflects on those we have lost over the past year.
To some, they were husbands, wives, parents, children, siblings, friends, and fellow colleagues. To all of us, they were “friend.” And in their last full measure, they served.
“Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
The Above & Beyond Awards
“Its just part of the job.” Often said. And true. In no other profession is the surreal and sublime a daily expectation by superiors and strangers.
No matter the crisis or the challenge, the expectation is that we act with immediacy, empathy, decisively, and wisely based often on limited information and even less time.
We recognize these worthy peers for their efforts and contributions.
Events Of The Week
The Five O’Clock Somewhere Gathering
Tuesday: 5:00pm-7:00pm. Enjoy the sunset with views of the harbor from dockside. Liaison with other attendees while taking in the sounds of summer and enjoying Caribbean infused appetizers.
Hotel shuttle provides free transportation to and from the dock in historic Annapolis.
Enrichment Visit: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Wednesday: 1:30-7:30. The group will travel to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Mall in Washington, DC. There, attendees will tour museum and see the sites of the city. Transportation provided. Guests of attendees welcome.
Overnight Accommodations
Accommodations with a special discounted INLETS rate are available at our host hotel.
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