Waddill Skinner

Jim Skinner is a 22-year law enforcement veteran and former prosecutor who consults for complex civil litigators and private sector security/loss prevention personnel on the discovery and investigation of financially motivated criminal activity. Jim’s training and experience, combined with his legal education allows for remarkable clarity when assisting clients in civil matters, and when called upon to investigate and prepare a prosecution referral package for private sector clients. Jim Skinner utilizes years of training and experience in a multi-disciplinary approach on a wide variety of cases, including, but not limited to theft, bank fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, wire & mail fraud, computer fraud, money laundering, racketeering and public corruption. Previous to exclusively investigating white collar crime, some of Mr. Skinner’s former law enforcement experiences include working as a patrol officer/dog handler, a homicide/robbery detective sergeant and then as the Eastern New Mexico Narcotics Task Force Coordinator, conducting undercover and counter-drug intelligence operations throughout the state of New Mexico.  

Jim Skinner, who retired in June 1998 as Chief Investigator for New Mexico’s Ninth Judicial District, is a graduate of the US Treasury/Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Fraud and Financial Investigations Training Program, the Advanced White Collar Crime Training Program, and the Telecommunications Fraud Training Program.  He has also received specialized training in seized computer evidence recovery from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and SEARCH/The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, and taught high tech crime investigation at the New Mexico Department of Public Safety Law Enforcement Academy.  Mr. Skinner developed extensive experience while coordinating joint major case investigations with the US Secret Service, the IRS, and FBI during his law enforcement tenure and after retiring from the State of New Mexico and graduating law school from the University of Houston, he practiced for five years as a complex civil litigator in Dallas before becoming an Assistant District Attorney and then a Special Prosecutor for the Collin County District Attorney’s Office.