Monique
Fields
Monique serves as the Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF) Liaison for Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). As a member of IRS-CI’s Headquarters’ Section of Asset Recovery & Investigative Services (ARIS), she provides guidance and oversight of program areas involving money laundering and asset forfeiture of real and general property assets including virtual currency, and managing IRS-CI’s asset forfeiture program relationship with TEOAF. Serving as a forensic accountant with a wide breadth of law enforcement authority in money laundering along with IRS-CI’s sole authority on tax violations, she is a subject matter expert on developing solid criminal financial investigations. Prior to arriving at HQ-ARIS, Monique’s IRS-CI career included conducting and overseeing a plethora of legal and illegal source tax and non-tax criminal investigations in the Atlanta, Cincinnati, Seattle, and Washington DC Field Offices as case agent, Supervisory Special Agent, and Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge. These investigations involved a myriad of industries and areas of tax non-compliance, money laundering, and asset forfeiture matters with both national and international scope. In addition to working in IRS’ Criminal Investigation Division for more than 16 years, she previously worked as a researcher on taxpayer compliance issues in IRS’ Wage and Investment (W&I) Division headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and a college professor in the Criminal Justice Department at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Monique completed her bachelor’s degree in Accounting from The Ohio State University, master’s degree in Criminal Justice from North Carolina Central University, and doctoral coursework in Criminal Justice at Michigan State University.