The West River Group (WRG) was founded in 1995 to provide financial investigative and asset forfeiture-related support to the Federal Law Enforcement community. Experienced retired federal investigators, prosecutors, and subject matter experts comprise our core executive group. Many of these individuals were responsible for starting highly successful Forfeiture Programs for their respective agencies while serving on various committees advising the Attorney General concerning forfeiture and money laundering matters. In addition, they assisted other Federal agencies in developing their forfeiture programs.

WRG has since grown to include over 200 experienced investigators, forensic accountants, managers, attorneys and other professionals. WRG’s personnel are recognized experts in many investigative disciplines including forfeiture, money laundering, organized crime, forensic accounting and financial investigations involving detailed analysis of myriad types of documents and records. Services provided by WRG are as varied as the clients we represent. All of our investigators and managers have at least 28 years of Federal law enforcement experience with agencies as diverse as IRS, FBI, ICE, U.S. Attorneys Office, and the Postal Inspection Service, in addition to the private sector.  Simply put, our breadth of experience and expertise in financial investigations and forfeiture matters is unmatched. 

Accomplishments

Through the years, WRG has assisted our client agencies in realizing hundreds of millions of dollars in property actually forfeited and fines collected.  WRG strives to provide these services at minimum costs while maximizing forfeiture and other sanctions to disrupt and dismantle organized criminal enterprises. Recent examples of our support include the following:

	A major fraud investigation where WRG identified and traced forfeitable assets of over $247 million;
	An investigation in a large metropolitan city resulting in property named for forfeiture valued at more than $242 million;
	A financial investigation yielding fines exceeding $600 million against a defendant corporation—$25 million of which was returned to our client agency for use in combating fraudulent corporate practices;
	A plea agreement resulting in a forfeiture exceeding $20 million negotiated with techniques developed by WRG;
	The forfeiture potential for current investigations with just one of our client agencies exceeds $780 million;
	In addition to these examples, WRG currently supports hundreds of investigations nationwide for many client agencies yielding forfeitures and other sanctions averaging over $400 million annually.

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