Amanda
Prestegard
Amanda Prestegard currently serves as the Director, Financial Crimes, for IRS-CI Global Operations. She was recently promoted after over 4 years as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge for CI’s Denver Field Office. Amanda was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Denver FO for 5 years before being selected as the ASAC. Amanda started her career with IRS-CI in the Los Angeles Field Office over 22 years ago, gaining experience and developing expertise in money laundering, asset forfeiture, undercover operations and BSA violations involving narcotics trafficking, Medicare fraud, and bank fraud, among other violations. She also served on the HIDTA Southern California Drug Task Force. She has worked with many agencies on a wide variety of money laundering and income tax investigations. Amanda also spent 5 years at IRS-CI Headquarters in Washington, DC, working in various program areas including Electronic Crimes, Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN, as well as serving as Chief of Staff to Chief Richard Weber. Amanda is a certified instructor through IRS-CI's accredited training program and served as an instructor for IRS-CI as well as many other law enforcement organizations across the country and around the world.