Francis “Fran” Mace joined the FDIC Office of Inspector General (OIG) in February 2009. He is the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations (DAIGI). Prior to assuming this position, he was the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Region, tasked with supervising investigations relating to fraud in or against FDIC-insured or regulated financial institutions.
Before joining the FDIC OIG, DAIGI Mace spent over 9 years working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-Criminal Investigations. His last assignment with the IRS was as Supervisory Special Agent in West Palm Beach, Florida. There he led a group of agents who conducted various financial investigations of tax and money laundering violations. He also supervised an agent assigned to the local Joint Terrorism Task Force as well as the local Suspicious Activity Report Review Team/West Palm Beach HIFCA.
Prior to his work in West Palm Beach, DAIGI Mace was assigned to a Task Force focusing on International Financial Crimes. The International Task Force worked on Office of Foreign Assets Control- related bank prosecutions, Internet gambling, and offshore tax evasion.
DAIGI Mace began his career with IRS in the New York Field Office where he worked a variety of tax and money laundering investigations. For the majority of his time in New York, he was assigned to the New York Asset Forfeiture Task Force. The Task Force mission was to seize and forfeit the proceeds of unlawful activity in addition to criminal prosecutions. He also spent time assigned to the New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Strike Force