Terry F. Lenzner, Investigative Group International’s chairman, founded the company in 1984 as an adjunct to his former law firm. IGI's founding marked an expansion of Lenzner's investigative law practice begun a decade earlier through his use of an in-house investigative unit at Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner.  Under his leadership, IGI has become one of the leading investigative firms in the United States, conducting a wide range of services for a diverse clientele of private and public entities and individuals.

Lenzner’s career began as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in 1964 and he was initially assigned to what became known as the “Mississippi Burning Case.”  He also supervised the Department’s grand jury inquiry into the Selma, Alabama events.

He then joined the Organized Crime Division of the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney’s Office, was later named by Donald Rumsfeld to be Director of the 2,500 attorneys of the Office of Economic Opportunity’s Legal Service Program.

Lenzner was later Assistant Chief Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee that investigated the burglary and cover-up at the Watergate Office Building.  He authored and personally served the first Congressional subpoena of a sitting U.S. President.

Lenzner has conducted training sessions on complex investigations for the offices of the Inspectors General at several federal agencies, and has lectured on that subject at Harvard Law School.

Lenzner is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and was a member of the Board of Overseers from 1970 to 1976.

Tom Wendel, President of IGI, has a broad range of financial management experience in both public and private practice.  His career includes the position of Partner at Arthur Andersen and Co., and Vice President Finance for Scripps League Newspapers.

During his time at Andersen in 1970’s and 1980’s, Wendel was responsible for Andersen’s work on various financial matters including: financial reporting under generally accepted accounting principles and SEC regulations; internal controls and related auditing considerations; purchase investigations of potential acquisition targets; public security offerings; financial projections; and fraud investigations. For Scripps, Wendel migrated the accounting systems to a client-server platform and by stimulating competition among vendors, negotiated reductions in core publishing costs.  Wendel developed a purchase prospectus for sale of company and served as the principal liaison with investment bankers and attorneys for the successful sale of Scripps to Pulitzer Publishing. Wendel came to IGI as its CFO in 1997, but soon became involved in investigative work and for the past several years has spent most of his time on a variety of investigative matters, most involving: 

•    AML investigations and projects for major financial institutions
•    Investigations of financial operations in certain “tax haven” jurisdictions.
•    Forensic accounting and/or SEC filing analyses in connection with hostile takeovers, litigation support, short selling and internal fraud investigations.

Wendel is a graduate of Saint Ambrose College.
 

Gary T. Fishman is Managing Director of IGI, and a member of the law firm Lenzner and Fishman P.C. Mr. Fishman has more than 15 years of investigative and litigation experience, with substantial experience handling complex white collar fraud investigations, including bank and securities fraud as well as international money laundering, and corporate embezzlement. He provides clients with various expert services in matters involving internal investigations, compliance, corporate governance, investigative due diligence, and fraud and anti-money laundering investigations.

Prior to joining IGI, Mr. Fishman was a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he most recently served as a Principal Deputy Chief in the Investigation Division.

During his time in the Investigation Division, Mr. Fishman worked on several matters of note: 

• Supervised and co-led a series of bank fraud investigations where several international financial institutions systematically violated New York State and federal laws by illegally moving hundreds of millions of dollars through banks in Manhattan on behalf of clients subject to U.S. sanctions. These cases were prosecuted jointly with the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and resulted in deferred prosecution agreements with Lloyds TSB ($350 million), Credit Suisse ($536 million), and Barclays ($298 million).  

• Supervised the investigation of a Chinese company’s scheme to falsify bank records in order to supply nuclear missile technology to Iranian military organizations. 

• Supervised and co-led the investigation and prosecution of a mortgage fraud criminal enterprise, which resulted in the conviction of thirty defendants for their involvement in a $100 million criminal scheme. 

• Supervised the investigation and prosecution of a former NYMEX commodities board member who fraudulently traded ahead of his customers in the natural gas market. The investigation involved significant analysis of complex trading records and financial statements. 

• Supervised the investigation and prosecution of individuals who committed tax fraud by secreting money in Swiss banks using complex trust accounts to disguise their ownership (handled jointly with the Department of Justice). 

• Supervised the investigation and prosecution of a $60 million pump-and-dump securities fraud scheme and wholesale looting of a public company. 

• Led the investigation and prosecution of illegal money remitters who illegally moved millions of dollars through the United States and other countries abroad. 

• Led the investigation and prosecution of several companies and individuals involved in the national trafficking of prescription drugs and money laundering. 

• Led the investigation of an individual who perpetrated a $500 million kiting scheme against a publicly traded company. 

Mr. Fishman began his career in 1995, as an Assistant District Attorney in the Trial Division. After five years, he became Chief of the Welfare Fraud Unit, where he supervised attorneys handling investigations and prosecutions involving Medicaid fraud.

In 2002, he was promoted to the position of Homicide Assistant, and handled many notable murder cases.

In 2006, Mr. Fishman transferred to the Office’s Investigation Division, where he was assigned to a bureau dedicated to handling highly complex financial crimes with national and international implications. The following year he was promoted to Deputy Chief.

In 2010, Mr. Fishman was promoted to Principal Deputy Chief, where he supervised approximately 30 attorneys and a support staff consisting of investigative analysts, accountants, and financial analysts. 

Mr. Fishman is a graduate of the University of Maryland-College Park, where he received a B.S. in finance. He received his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law.