THOMAS M. CASSIDY is a twenty-year veteran of the New York State Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as a senior special investigator. An economist with a Master's Degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he is a senior fellow at the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies and a long term care insurance specialist with Northwestern Mutual Life. An active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Cassidy gives numerous lectures and seminars on elder care and health fraud issues. He lives with his family in Setauket, New York.