Rich Fogarty has over 25 years of investigative and legal experience and is the Head of S-RM’s Disputes & Investigations Practice for the Americas. He is an expert in matters related to regulatory compliance, crisis management/reputational protection, complex internal and external frauds, FCPA/ABAC investigations, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing, OFAC-related matters, investigative due diligence, business intelligence, and asset tracing investigations.
Rich has led hundreds of investigations in Latin America, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and has worked on a variety of complex investigations for international corporations, wealthy families and individuals, and law firms throughout the globe.
Rich began his career as an examining attorney and investigator with the New York City Department of Investigation. In this position, he conducted criminal investigations, covering employee fraud and theft, bribery, organized crime-related activities, public and union corruption, and administrative disciplinary actions. His cases included bid rigging at city-run auctions; theft of union funds, pensions, and property; and investigations of towing companies that uncovered, for example, extensive payments to a capo in the Gambino crime family. Rich also worked closely with the New York City Trade Waste Commission on a number of investigations involving kickbacks, theft of funds, and bid-rigging.
Rich earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1993 and prior to that earned a B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College in Hartford, graduating in 1988. He is also fluent in Spanish.