Thomas J. Reilly

Certified Fraud Examiner

Thomas J. Reilly, the President of The Reilly International Group Ltd., is a Certified Fraud Examiner with over four decades of experience conducting civil and criminal investigations and international asset recoveries. 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 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 1990 operated a private investigative firm specializing in financial and corporate due diligence investigations and asset recovery.

In the public sector, in 1986 Mr. Reilly was appointed to the Martin Commission charged with investigating fraud in the awarding of New York City contracts. 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.

During his government service, Mr. Reilly was responsible for the highly chronicled 1983 arrest of Robert Granberg and three associates who assisted him in faking his reported drowning death off the New Jersey coast. Granberg’s wife collected accidental death benefit money on his life insurance policies from five major insurance companies. Mr. Reilly participated in the 1980’s New York Organized Crime Strike Force investigation of a multimillion dollar international Gambino crime family auto theft and insurance fraud ring resulting in the conviction of a gang headed by Mafia Godfather Paul Castellano who was slain during the trial by John Gotti. Mr. Reilly also arrested the president and employees of a Wall Street brokerage firm convicted of defrauding clients of more than six million dollars in the 1980’s.

Mr. Reilly attended the University of Vermont where he played football and earned a B.A. degree in Political Science. He is a 1978 graduate of John Jay College where he earned a M.A. in Criminal Justice. He is a past Chairman and President of the New York City Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a member of the World Association of Detectives, the World Investigators Network, the Council of International Investigators, the National Association of Legal Investigators, Intellenet, and the National Council of Investigation and Security Services. He is a recipient of the World Investigators Network Christopher Nolan Investigator of the Year Award for 2008.