Jesse R. Morton

Jesse R. Morton is a managing director in BRG’s Forensic Accounting practice based in Atlanta. He has professional experience as a consultant, lawyer, accountant, investigator, and auditor.

Mr. Morton specializes in working with businesses of all types and sizes on government program-related economic assistance, including the CARES Act and other pandemic-related relief such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Employee Retention tax Credits (ERCs). Specifically, he works directly with businesses and their advisors (i.e., CPAs, attorneys, bankers) on compliance and fraud prevention, detection, response, and remediation-related services, including assisting with preparing claims, evaluating and enhancing claim documentation/support, information document request (IDR) support, ERC provider audit readiness and claim portfolio analysis, taxpayer audit support, and litigation/enforcement action support, including expert witness testimony.

Mr. Morton also regularly helps clients with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)/sanctions-related issues; performing investigations related to financial statement fraud, asset misappropriation, and/or illegal acts and regulatory compliance/violations; anti-bribery/corruption (ABC) and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) program development, compliance, audit, and remediation; securities and trading violations; elder financial exploitation; mortgage and loan origination/servicing fraud; establishing and enhancing regulatory compliance and ongoing monitoring processes and procedures; performing asset-tracing and financial analysis; insider threat and third-party risk management; and litigation assistance.