Former Senior Executives of International Investigation Firm Join Price Waterhouse
PR Newswire - July 08, 1997 11:10
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NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Price Waterhouse LLP today announced that
Michael Zeldin, Jonny Frank, Wendy Schmidt, Jerome Bullock and Richard Harms,
all formerly Managing Directors of Decision Strategies International, have
joined the Price Waterhouse global forensic investigations practice, working
in the New York and Washington D.C. offices.
Price Waterhouse's 30-year-old global forensic investigations practice has
over 1,000 specialists worldwide who work together in relevant disciplines.
The group is frequently retained to conduct investigations in high profile
cases, including the on-going Bre-X gold mine fraud inquiry. Currently, Price
Waterhouse is serving as project manager for the investigation into dormant
accounts created by holocaust victims in the Swiss banking system during World
War II. Over the past five years, the group has handled more than 300 cases
in the United States and 150 in the United Kingdom and Europe.
"We are very pleased to welcome this group of investigative specialists to
Price Waterhouse. The group's mission will be to deter, detect, and
investigate all forms of misconduct against clients of Price Waterhouse around
the world. In addition to information gathering and investigating financial
fraud, their duties will include international investigative due diligence,
litigation intelligence, and implementation of ethics and compliance
programs," said Frank Piantidosi, senior partner in the forensic
investigations practice of Price Waterhouse LLP.
Michael F. Zeldin (Washington, D.C.) has served in various departments of
the U.S. government most notably as the Chief of the Money Laundering and
Asset Forfeiture Offices in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of
Justice; Special Counsel to the Criminal Division for Money Laundering
Matters; and as Deputy Chief Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee, October Surprise Task Force, charged with investigating the
1980 holding of American hostages in Iran. Recently, Zeldin assumed the role
of deputy and then independent counsel charged with investigating the
tampering into President Clinton's passport. Zeldin has served as a U.S.
delegate to five international task forces, including: the G-7 Financial Task
Force in Paris, France; the Council of Europe, Select Committee of Experts
Regarding Search, Seizure and Confiscation of Crime Proceeds in Strasbourg,
France; the U.N. Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances in Vienna, Austria; the Organization of American
States, Legislative Drafting Committee in Washington, D.C.; and the Caribbean
Action Task Force in Oranjestad, Aruba.
Jonny J. Frank (New York) has served for over a decade in the United
States Attorney's Office where his positions included Executive Assistant
United States Attorney, Senior Investigations Counsel, Chief of Special
Prosecutions, and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in which he
successfully investigated and prosecuted corruption and complex crimes
involving Fortune 500 companies and resulting in over $500 million in criminal
fines and civil penalties. During the last two years at the U.S. Attorney's
Office, Frank simultaneously served as Special Counsel and Chair, Special
Advisory Board to the Mollen Commission, the commission appointed by the mayor
to investigate police corruption in New York City. Since 1988, Frank has been
a member of the faculties at Brooklyn and Fordham law schools, where he
teaches international criminal law and complex criminal law. He also
co-founded Fordham's International Criminal Law Center.
Wendy C. Schmidt (New York) spent six years as a practicing attorney in
major New York and Boston law firms where she specialized in complex civil
cases, including securities fraud, antitrust and first amendment litigation.
Some of her key clients have included a national accounting firm in a 10b-5
lawsuit; manufacturing companies in mergers challenged under the Clayton Act;
and one of three major television networks in First Amendment matters.
J. Jerome Bullock (Washington, D.C.) has served with the U.S. Department
of Justice in various executive level positions including Associate Legal
Counsel; United States Marshal for the District of Columbia (a Presidential
appointment confirmed by the Senate); Chief, Office of Congressional and
Public Affairs; and Chief, Office of Internal Security, United States Marshals
Service. He was Assistant Inspector General for Investigations in his last
position with the Department of Justice where he directed major internal
criminal investigations involving Department employees and contractors.
Bullock has a great deal of experience using computer technology to solve
complex bribery cases. In 1994, he created and directed "IGNet" an
Internet-based network of Inspectors General at the federal, state and
international levels. His international work includes investigations in
Africa, the Philippines, Canada, Colombia, Mexico and Chile.
Dr. Richard Harms (Washington, D.C.) has been involved in anti-financial
crime intelligence work since 1984. In 1989, he was on the task force that
designed and implemented the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an
agency of the U.S. Department of Treasury, and became its original Assistant
Director (Strategic Analysis). From 1992 to 1995 as a consultant with the
Australian government, Harms directed the inter-agency steering group that
developed an automated system to identify criminal targets (including bank
fraud and narcotics-related money laundering) from cash transaction and
international wire transfer information.
The Global Investigative Services Group is a part of the Dispute Analysis
and Corporate Recovery (DA&CR) Group. DA&CR is a worldwide practice that
provides comprehensive financial and economic consulting to companies involved
in all types of investigation, litigation, arbitration and mediation,
reorganization, restructuring, bankruptcy, acquisition and divestiture. DA&CR
has worked with hundreds of major corporations throughout the world in
resolving a broad range of business and financial problems. The Group's
global network of specialists work together as multi-disciplinary teams to
bring relevant business, industry and technical expertise to each client
engagement. In the United States, DA&CR has 64 partners and 550 staff members
devoted to dispute analysis and corporate recovery cases.
For nearly 150 years, Price Waterhouse has been helping the world's
leading companies solve complex business problems. Today, through a worldwide
network comprising 56,000 professionals, Price Waterhouse assists clients in
effecting organizational and strategic change; using information technology
for competitive advantage; complying with statutory audit and tax
requirements; and implementing strategies to improve business performance and
increase shareholder value. Price Waterhouse LLP, with more than 15,000 men
and women in principal cities throughout the United States, is a vital part of
the worldwide Price Waterhouse organization.
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