In the six years he worked at the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf, Tom led and participated in numerous investigations in support of civil litigation matters as well as ones involving bribery, fraud, embezzlement, and alleged violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Prior to that, he served for a decade as a US postal inspector in New York. He was case agent for the investigation and prosecution of US vs. John J. Rigas et al., in which the former CEO and former CFO of Adelphia Communications Corporation, one of the nation’s largest cable television companies, were convicted of numerous securities and bank fraud charges following a seven-month trial.
Tom also served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York and was a representative to FINRA’s White Collar Crime roundtable. He has spoken on white-collar crime at the FBI’s Corporate Fraud Training Conference and has lectured at both New York University and Villanova law schools. He has prepared submissions for congressional review and also contributed to Building a World-Class Compliance Program: Best Practices and Strategies for Success, by Martin T. Biegelman (Wiley, 2008).