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VIENNA — Perry Forensic, part of Perry & Associates CPA, has added three new members to its staff of former law enforcement and other experts working in fraud investigation, forensic accounting and related areas.

The new members of the Perry Forensic team are Larry R. Mincks, Jason L. Gandee and Jeffrey James for the firm which has offices in five cities, including Vienna and Marietta.

Mincks now serves as director of quality control and investigative techniques for Perry Forensic. Most recently a five-term sheriff of Washington County, Mincks has 65 years of military and law enforcement service.

He has been employed in various levels of federal, state and local government supervising and investigating crimes involving income tax evasion, health care and employment fraud, money laundering, computer scams, embezzlement, arson, narcotics, public corruption, extortion, illegal gambling, prostitution, domestic violence, burglary, murder and rape.

In addition to his years with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office as a deputy and sheriff, he also served in the U.S. Air Force, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the Internal Revenue Service and the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of West Virginia.

Gandee is a forensic accountant and retired special agent, supervisory special agent, and director of field operations analyst. He investigated a multitude of financial related crimes, including tax fraud and money laundering. He has experience in identifying holding companies, nominees and other interrelationships that create difficulties in identifying ownership or control of assets.

He received the Chief’s Investigative Excellence Award, the highest award given in Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, for work on a money laundering investigation involving one of the largest banks in the world.

James is an anti-money laundering expert and forensic accountant who retired as an IRS Criminal Investigation special agent.

As a special agent, he conducted complex financial investigations relating to income tax evasion, money laundering, fraud and violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.

On multiple occasions his investigations led him to foreign countries where he was able to trace the transfer of illegal funds and has conducted high profile income tax evasion, health care fraud, domestic terrorism and narcotics investigations throughout the United States.

Other members of the Perry Forensic team include Thomas “Thom” Kirk, Jeff S. Sandy, Renee L. Sandy, Brett Burns, Laura Gallaher, John Cassara, Christine Milewsky, Gregory Brogdon I, Dr. John R. Schafer, Caleb Burnosky and Thomas Martin.