FROM THE HILL TO THE TRENCHES

A Finance professional in Hong Kong joined a routine video call with his company’s CFO and several colleagues. He recognized the faces. All the voices sounded right. He then wired roughly US$ million across fifteen transfers in a single day. However, every executive on that call was an AI-generated deepfake, built from public footage and data scraped from the internet. Which criminal(s)...

Forensic profiler and counterterrorism expert Dale Yeager joins the show to unpack the current surge in financial fraud enforcement and what really happens behind the scenes. He clarifies that many US money laundering investigations are led by the FBI. However, they are also driven by Treasury agencies (IRS-CI, Secret Service) plus U.S. Postal Inspectors, with FinCEN’s SAR database providing salie...

In this episode of From The Hill To The Trenches: The Search for Justice, host Dorothy Hill speaks with Dillon Abend, founder and CEO of 3rd-i, about the nationwide campus safety crisis. Research at University of Miami revealed 75 percent of female students feel unsafe using rideshare, and 70 percent have experienced harassment or assault. Abend’s 3rd-i app acts as a shareable body cam with dual c...

In this episode of From The Hill To The Trenches: The Search for Justice with host Dorothy Hill, financial crime compliance expert Brett Erickson reveals the shocking vulnerabilities within America's financial monitoring systems. FinCEN's suspicious activity report database serves 350+ law enforcement agencies, but insider threats remain a constant danger as foreign adversaries compromise federal...

In this episode of From the Hill to the Trenches, host Dorothy Hill speaks with Ralph Dahm, a seasoned digital currency investigator who has traced cryptocurrency crimes ranging from $200 to over $1 billion in stolen Bitcoin. Ralph Dahm exposes the dark reality of romance scams and pig butchering schemes targeting elderly Americans, revealing that victims lose between $50-150 billion annually to s...

In Episode #4 of the podcast From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice, host Dorothy Hill sits down with Brig Barker, a former FBI agent and U.S. Army veteran with 18 years of counter-terrorism experience tracking al-Qaeda and ISIS operations. Barker shares his journey from Army officer stationed in Italy to being an FBI tactical team member responding to embassy bombings in Kenya and...

In Episode #3 of the podcast From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice, host Dorothy Hill connects with Lili Kazemi, a Washington DC-based tax attorney who has successfully built the wellness company Dow Fit Life while advancing her corporate legal career. Lili shares her journey spanning PWC, major law firms, and now serving as in-house counsel at a tech company, all while developing...

In Episode #2 of the Podcast From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice, Dorothy Hill takes listeners on an unexpected journey from Wall Street boardrooms to the Philippine coffee farms and cafes with Markus Ableitinger, a former Capital Dynamics executive. Markus shares his transformation from managing billions of dollars in Asian private equity to roasting single-origin beans at...

When billions disappear through shell companies and elderly Americans lose their life savings to family members, who's tracking the money? From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice takes you inside the investigations that traditional media won't touch. Host Dorothy Hill, former Goldman Sachs Associate and financial crime investigator with 25 years of Wall Street experience, reveals how...

Dorothy Hill launches From the Hill to the Trenches: The Search for Justice with a shocking examination of elder financial exploitation—a crime that costs elderly Americans $32 billion annually, with 65% of these financial crimes committed by family members. Joined by Chuck Harold, a retired California Peace Officer with over 40 years in law enforcement, corporate security, and private investigati...