Their many schemes are identified as occupational fraud in the Report to the Nations, produced every two years since 1996 by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, or ACFE.

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Mr. Crucey worked until 2010 as a senior vice president for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, a taxpayer-funded organization set up to revitalize distressed communities, and was an associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, prosecutors said.

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