Matt Hogan has worked in law enforcement for more than 18 years. He began his career as a patrol officer with the DeKalb County Police Department outside Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to a state law enforcement agency in the northeast, where he is now a Detective assigned to a Major Crime Squad. He is also a Task Force Officer with a federal financial crimes task force. His awards include five unit citations, two Outstanding Service Awards, and a 2025 Officer of the Year award from a statewide civic service organization.
Matt co-founded his agency’s Cryptocurrency Working Group in 2022 and has helped lead its cryptocurrency investigation program for roughly four years. He holds a master’s degree in Financial Crime Investigations from the University of New Haven, along with blockchain forensics certifications from Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Blockchain Intelligence Group. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and an Economic Crime Forensic Examiner through the National White Collar Crime Center.
Matt serves on the board of his regional ACAMS chapter, as a Board Director for the National White Collar Crime Center, and as a board member of Operation Shamrock, a nonprofit focused on pig butchering fraud and transnational organized crime. He is the founder of Fraud Defense Network LLC, a financial crime consulting and training practice. His work has appeared in ACAMS Today, and he has contributed as a source to international investigative reporting on fraud infrastructure.
Matt has testified before Congress on fraud and financial scams, participated in roundtables with the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, and drafted state cryptocurrency legislation enacted in two separate legislative sessions, covering virtual currency kiosks and anti-money laundering compliance. He teaches financial crime courses at a local college, is a certified law enforcement instructor through his state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council, and regularly speaks at national conferences including Chainalysis LINKS and NICE Actimize ENGAGE. He has published original research on emerging financial crime typologies, including a framework he calls Shell Agents that examines how AI agents operating with delegated financial identity enable illicit payment flows.