At Nardello & Co. and throughout his private sector career, Jim has successfully applied his public service expertise to a range of matters, including corporate and financial fraud, international investigations, civil and criminal litigation support, internal theft, electronic surveillance countermeasures, and security consulting. He is an expert interviewer, having conducted thousands of witness interviews over the course of his career, and has experience in collecting physical and electronic evidence and presenting trial testimony based on his investigations.
Jim was the supervisory criminal investigator at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He served for more than 20 years in this office, where he uncovered critical evidence for federal prosecutors. There, he worked on cases involving narcotics conspiracies, official corruption, bank fraud, organized crime conspiracies, RICO matters, SEC violations, and the sexual exploitation of children. In 1997, he received the Tendy Award for his outstanding public service.
Jim began his career with the New York City Police Department before being assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Joint Narcotics Task Force.