| For close to four years John B. Gagliardo had been employed with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in the New York Field Office. The New York Field Office is the largest, highest profile and most productive IRS-CI Office in the country. As ASAC, Gagliardo was in charge of a staff consisting of six supervisors, as many as eighty investigators, thirteen investigative support staff, a forensic computer specialist, four asset forfeiture contractors and an investigative analyst. Gagliardo has also held leadership and technical positions in IRS-CI HQ in Washington DC, and the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh & Newark Field Offices. His areas of experience include tax fraud, white collar crimes, public corruption, asset forfeiture, corporate & securities fraud, labor racketeering and organized crime. Gagliardo also has extensive experience in pursuing bank secrecy act and money laundering violations stemming from fraud, narcotics trafficking and terrorist financing. He was an asset forfeiture consultant with Madison Associates from March 2009 till January 2019. From February 2019 through February 17th, 2020 he was a self-employed licensed private investigator. On February 18th, 2020 he started a new position as a Senior Financial Investigator with ASRC Primus contracted to IRS Criminal Investigation and assigned to the Civil Division of the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY). His duties include the use of forensic accounting techniques honed through almost 40 years’ experience supporting, developing and perfecting financial crimes with an emphasis on Asset Forfeiture, Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and Income Tax Crimes. |  |