Thomas J. Reilly, the President of The Reilly International Group Ltd., is a Certified Fraud Examiner with over three decades of experience conducting civil and criminal investigations, international asset recoveries, and anti-money laundering audits. As a specialist in financial investigations and litigation support, Mr. Reilly has successfully conducted sensitive corporate financial due diligence inquiries exposing fraud and corruption and enabling clients to evaluate losses, recover assets, avoid damaging publicity, and prevent future frauds.
Previous to founding The Reilly International Group Ltd., Mr. Reilly was from March 1991 through 1997, the Vice President and Managing Director of Decision Strategies International, the world’s largest independent consultant investigative firm, where he managed numerous corporate and environmental investigations for the legal, business, and insurance communities. Prior to co-founding Decision Strategies International, Mr. Reilly, from 1984 through February 1991, operated a private investigative firm specializing in financial and corporate due diligence investigations and asset recovery. In 1986, New York City Mayor Edward Koch appointed Mr. Reilly to the Martin Commission, charged with investigating fraud in the awarding of New York City contracts.
In the public sector, from 1971 through 1983, Mr. Reilly served as a U.S. Postal Inspector investigating business fraud, securities fraud, organized crime, narcotics trafficking, and official corruption. In 1979, Mr. Reilly arrested the president and employees of a Wall Street brokerage firm convicted of defrauding clients of millions of dollars. These were the first Wall Street brokerage firm convictions that were followed by numerous other securities fraud convictions obtained by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service during the 1980’s.
Mr. Reilly was responsible for the highly chronicled 1983 arrest of Robert Granberg and three associates who assisted him in faking his reported 1981 drowning death off the coast of New Jersey. Granberg’s wife collected accidental death benefit money on his life insurance policies from five insurance companies.
Mr. Reilly also participated in the New York Organized Crime Strike Force 1980’s investigation of a multimillion dollar international Gambino crime family auto theft and insurance fraud ring. Mr. Reilly developed critical information resulting in the cooperation of a ring member and subsequent convictions of theft ring members headed by Mafia Godfather Paul Castellano
Mr. Reilly is a 1971 graduate of the University of Vermont and a 1978 graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice (M.A. Criminal Justice). He is a board member and past Chairman and President of the New York City Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Mr. Reilly is a member of the World Investigators Network, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Intellenet, the World Association of Detectives, ASIS (American Society for Industrial Security) International, and the National Council of Investigation and Security Services. In March 2009 at the World Investigators Network Annual Conference, Mr. Reilly was chosen the recipient of The Christopher Nolan Investigator of the Year Award for 2008.
