Tony Rivera
Serior Director of Investigations
With over 25 year experience (now retired), Tony Rivera worked the majority of his career in fraud investigations. For the last 19 years, he has worked in the liquor enforcement area focusing on both administrative and criminal investigations.
Tony has been assigned to several multi-agency task force' with an emphasis in financial crimes. Prior to working liquor enforcement, Tony worked in the Internal Affairs throughout the state of Arizona in the corrections industry. Tony's state service began in the Office of Special Investigations at D.E.S. when he focused on public assistance fraud and unemployment cases. Tony's roots began like many enforcement officers as he went to the police academy in 1988 and worked various police/sheriff agencies in patrol. Tony holds a degree in Business Administration.
Tony has extensive training in financial crimes, fraudulent identification documents along with Straw Ownership regarding Liquor licensing. Tony has facilitated and presented several Law Enforcement trainings on these topics to other Law Enforcement agencies.
Tony has written several articles on these topics along with several articles being published in magazines to include Beverage analyst and the Law Enforcement Rocky Mountain Information Network.