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ABOUT US
The founding management of Integrated Training and AML Aware has a combined total of over 100 years in law enforcement. All of the principals have supervisory, management, and/or administrative experience in major law enforcement agencies. All have extensive experience in money laundering, criminal investigation, intelligence and other relevant programs, and have developed and presented numerous training presentations in these areas. The team shares a critical vision: to present training that has 'take-away value,' giving attendees information they can use when they return to their workplace. In the versions of money laundering and financial investigative training programs presented before, our instructors have received consistently sterling participant responses. Achieving this level of quality is a worthy and attainable goal. Please see our profiles below to meet our senior instructors and program designers:
Russell D. Bain
Russell Bain retired in 2005 after 20 years of service with the Internal Revenue Service. As a Revenue Agent in IRS’ Special Enforcement Program, Mr. Bain specialized in cases with fraud implications and has extensive experience with tax fraud, evasion, money laundering, and other criminal activities. Mr. Bain has participated in Bank Secrecy Act training programs and offers a perspective on the civil and regulatory aspects of BSA compliance. Mr. Bain holds Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from Chaminade University in Honolulu.
Cathy Cowley
Cathy Cowley recently retired from a 29 year career with IRS. She started her financial investigative career in Utah conducting civil audits. In 1985, she transferred to the Criminal Investigation Division as a special agent investigating criminal tax and money laundering cases in Montana, then Washington State. For several years after Tribal gaming became active in Washington State, she trained casino employees and management officials on the Bank Secrecy Act. For the final years of her law enforcement career, she was a Supervisory Special Agent overseeing agents in the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and Saipan, then Bellevue, Washington. She was an Executive Committee member and Budget Committee member of the Honolulu High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force, a member of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Review committee, as well as an Anti-terrorism Advisory Council member. She concluded her law enforcement career as the Supervisory Special Agent for a class of 24 trainees at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia.
Wendy Elkins
Ms. Elkins started her law enforcement career as a US Customs Inspector in Honolulu, Hawaii. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology at the University of Hawaii she was hired by the State of Hawaii Narcotics Enforcement Division (N.E.D.) as a Narcotics Investigator. During her seven years at NED she worked on a variety of drug-related investigations and was sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration to attend the Criminal Investigator Training Program at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Her training experience also included serving as a Defensive Tactics Trainer for the State Department of Public Safety. Ms. Elkins transferred to the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office of the City and County of Honolulu, serving as an Investigator and Supervisor in the Major Crimes Investigations Unit and receiving training from the Federal Environmental Protection Agency as Hawaii’s only Environmental Crimes Investigator.
For the past four years, Ms. Elkins has been employed as a Lieutenant Investigator for the City Prosecutor’s office in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jim Holmes
Jim Holmes is a 1965 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has a master’s degree in law enforcement administration from Central Missouri State University. Jim is a Viet Nam veteran and, after being honorably discharged as a Captain in the U. S. Army, he served for 15 years as a Special Agent and then Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1985, Jim was appointed by then Governor John Ashcroft as the first Executive Director of the Missouri Lottery. Subsequently, since 1987, he has acted as a national and international gaming consultant. During Jim's time with the FBI he participated in and supervised other Special Agents in the conduct of complex investigations including surveillances, the gathering of evidence and the preparation of investigative reports for submission to the United States Attorney. Jim brings a wealth of experience to his work as a private investigator.
Francis H. Kinney
Francis H. Kinney retired with over 24 years of law enforcement experience from the King County (Washington) Sheriff’s Office. During his career, he served in patrol, CID, administration & criminal intelligence. He retired as a Precinct Commander with the rank of Major. He was the Contract City Police Chief of SeaTac, WA. and Contract City Chief of Beaux Arts Village, WA, and spent ten years in Criminal Intelligence, first as an Intelligence Officer then as the unit commander.
He has been involved over the years in a variety of law enforcement training and development programs and was instrumental in designing the criminal intelligence training programs currently in use in Washington State.
He has a BA and MA Degree in History from Seattle University.
John F. Madinger
John Madinger has been employed in law enforcement since
1974, as a narcotics investigator and state narcotic agent in
Oklahoma and Hawaii. At the Hawaii state Office of Narcotics
Enforcement, he was an investigator and supervisor,
responsible for enforcement operations. He is currently
employed by the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, assigned
to the Hawaii High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and other
federal drug task forces since 1988. He has developed
numerous money laundering training programs, presenting
these in Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, the Bahamas, Bosnia, Croatia,
and Mongolia. A court-certified expert witness on money
laundering, he is the co-author of "Money Laundering: A Guide
for Criminal Investigators," and author of "Confidential
Informant: Law Enforcement's Most Valuable Tool." A second
edition of "Money Laundering" is due out in May
2006. Mr. Madinger has a BA in Criminal Justice from Indiana
University and an MA in History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Brian G. Onieal
Brian Onieal is currently employed as an Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence Investigator by the State of New Jersey, Office of the Attorney General, Office of Counter-Terrorism. He retired as a Lieutenant from the Jersey City, New Jersey Police Department, where he served as a Detective, Patrol, and Task Force Commander. Other assignments included Police Academy Instructor, Planning and Research Supervisor, and command assignments in Patrol and other functions. He also presently teaches as an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, New York, providing instruction on money laundering, financial crimes, investigative functions, and an NYPD Certificate Course on Leadership and Supervision. Mr. Onieal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice Administration from New Jersey City University and is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), NJ Academy of Criminal Justice Educators, and the American Criminal Justice Research Sciences.
John F. Peyton, Jr
John Peyton, a Senior AMLAWARE Instructor and good friend was recently killed in an automobile accident in Zambia. We have posted his resume and a tribute to John on a separate page that can be linked here, or by clicking on his name. We will miss his talent, his intellect, his good humor, and his company.
Dwight Sparlin
Dwight Sparlin retired in 2005 after 30 years with the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division. Mr. Sparlin’s last position with the IRS-CI was the Director of Operations, Policy and Support in Washington D.C. As the Director he was the principal assistant to the Chief Criminal Investigation for formulating policy, developing procedures and providing guidance to the 2700 special agents conducting tax and money laundering investigations nationwide. Mr. Sparlin held several high level management positions including Special Agent in Charge of the Oakland/San Francisco field office and the Special Agent in Charge of the Oregon/Idaho/Hawaii field office. Mr.Sparlin testified before Congress in March 2004 concerning CI’s role in combating money laundering and terrorist financing. He was the lead instructor for the CI Senior Management Training Seminar in 2004 and has been a speaker at several ABA, CPA and return preparer conferences. Mr. Sparlin has a BA degree in Accounting from Metropolitan State College in Denver, CO
Sydney Zalopany
Ms. Zalopany retired from the Hawaii State Department of Public
Safety with over 25 years of law enforcement experience. Her
law enforcement career began with the Honolulu Police
Department, where she served in the Patrol and Narcotics/Vice
Divisions. From 1982 to 1992, she was employed at the state
Narcotics Enforcement Division, as an Investigator and
Supervisor, before becoming the Administrator of the Internal
Affairs Division of the Department of Public Safety. Ms. Zalopany
was assigned for several years to federal drug task forces and
was involved in the preparation of money laundering training
programs and financial investigations. She co-authored "Money
Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators," and has a
degree in Criminal Justice from Chaminade University of
Honolulu.
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