Scott Moritz

Scott Moritz is a Managing Director in the firm’s Financial Advisory Services Group, where he oversees complex investigations involving white-collar and property crime, assists clients and their outside counsel in pursuing financial recovery, and advises organizations on remediating financial controls, ethics, and compliance frameworks.

Scott has extensive experience leading investigations involving financial misconduct, public corruption, money laundering, securities fraud, procurement fraud, asset misappropriation, conflicts of interest, and other complex financial crimes. He also has significant experience evaluating and remediating corporate compliance and internal control programs, including those focused on anti-money laundering (AML), anti-bribery and corruption (ABAC), fraud risk management (FRM), and financial crime compliance. His work includes leading AML and sanctions remediation projects for financial institutions, including transaction lookbacks, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediation, and sanctions screening engagements for retail, commercial, wholesale, and investment banks, as well as private equity funds, hedge funds, and mutual funds.

Throughout his career, Scott has performed investigative, regulatory compliance, and advisory work for numerous government, quasi-governmental, and private-sector organizations. Drawing on his investigative background, he has significant experience supporting court-appointed monitorships and receiverships arising from complex federal and state prosecutions, including matters involving organized crime and money laundering. He has also worked closely with regulators, law enforcement agencies, boards of directors, audit committees, and outside counsel on high-profile investigations and corporate remediation initiatives.

Prior to joining EisnerAmper, Scott served as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he conducted domestic and international investigations involving white collar crime, public corruption, money laundering, bank fraud, securities fraud, organized crime, and other complex financial crimes. He later held leadership positions with national public accounting and risk consulting firms, overseeing financial crime investigations, forensic accounting engagements, regulatory compliance matters, and internal control remediation projects for publicly traded companies and financial institutions.

Scott is widely regarded as an authority on internal investigations, forensic accounting, financial crime, and regulatory compliance. He has provided expert and fact testimony in more than 40 federal and state proceedings, including trials, grand jury proceedings, depositions, legislative hearings, and other judicial matters involving financial crime, corporate governance, and compliance. Scott has also authored numerous articles, white papers, and thought leadership on white collar crime, financial crime, corruption, investigations, compliance, and crisis response. His work has been published by leading industry organizations, and his insights have been featured in national and international publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Business Credit, Institutional Investor's Journal, Journal of Private Equity, and Venture Capital Journal.