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Robert Pertuso is President and
founder of RK International, Inc. He retired from
the FBI in 2004 as a Special Agent, after an eclectic
career spanning four decades. He
subsequently served as Director of Corporate
Investigations for a Fortune 50 company. Mr.
Pertuso directs all investigations conducted by RK
International, Inc.
Mr. Pertuso began his career with
the FBI in 1978, when he was assigned to the Kansas City
Division. During the ensuing four-year period, he
was assigned to a white-collar crime squad, where he
investigated numerous complex cases involving financial
institution fraud and investor fraud, including a
multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. Mr. Pertuso
gained extensive trial experience during this
assignment. During late 1981, Mr. Pertuso was one of
eight Special Agents selected to serve on a new
organized crime squad in the Newark Division/Atlantic
City Resident Agency. During this 3-year
assignment, Mr. Pertuso served as the case agent of
several complex drug and organized crime investigations
which led to the convictions of organized crime figures
based in Southern New Jersey. During early 1985,
Mr. Pertuso was selected to serve as the case agent of a
major defense contract fraud investigation being
conducted by the New Haven Division. During this
3-year assignment, he gained extensive knowledge
concerning the defense industry and procurement fraud.
In addition to investigative work,
Mr. Pertuso was selected to serve as a Supervisor at FBI
Headquarters, Criminal Investigative Division, Organized
Crime Section. During this assignment, a position
he held from 1988 until 1989, he gained additional
experience concerning the utilization of electronic
surveillance techniques as well as the Federal RICO
statute and the Enterprise Theory of Investigation.
Following this assignment, he served as the Supervisory
Senior Resident Agent of the Indianapolis Division,
Merrillville Resident Agency, where he supervised
numerous complex white-collar crime and organized crime
investigations.
Mr. Pertuso returned to
investigative duties in the Detroit Division during
1992. For a four-year period, he was assigned to
the Safe Streets-Alliance Fugitive Task Force and Safe
Streets-Violent Crimes Task Force. He served
as the first coordinator for the latter. During
this assignment, he effectively utilized his experience
in organized crime matters, to dismantle a large
home-invasion robbery gang, which had preyed upon the
citizens of Detroit for two years.
Seeking to utilize the
investigative skills honed during the first two decades
of his FBI career, during 1997, Mr. Pertuso sought
a transfer to the Detroit Division Foreign
Counter-Intelligence Squad. During this
assignment, he was one of the first FBI Special Agents
to receive training concerning the Economic Espionage
Act of 1996. For the next three years, he gained
extensive investigative experience relating to the theft
of trade secrets from U.S. corporations. During
Mr. Pertuso’s last four years of service, he was
assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
During this assignment, he focused on terrorist
financing matters. He also had the privilege to
serve as the Detroit Division Case Agent for the
investigation of the 9/11 terrorist bombings (PENTTBOMB).
Mr. Pertuso has been commended on
numerous occasions by the Directors of the FBI, various
Chiefs of Police, as well as federal and state
prosecutors for his role as case agent, undercover
agent, field supervisor and FBI Headquarters supervisor
of complex investigations.
During the period 2004 - 2006, Mr.
Pertuso served as the Director of Corporate
Investigations for a Fortune 50 company. In this
role, Mr. Pertuso investigated numerous sensitive
internal and external investigations under the direction
of the Chief Compliance Officer.
Mr. Pertuso holds a B.S. degree in
Business Administration from Bryant University,
Smithfield, Rhode Island and an M.B.A. from Suffolk
University, Boston, Massachusetts.
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