After serving almost 28 years in federal law enforcement, Brian Bruh opened his consulting business. Among Mr. Bruh's clients are the United States and foreign governments, major law firms, foreign and domestic financial institutions, a major university, a major media corporation and many prominent individuals in all categories of life. He has also consulted for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Mr. Bruh has extensive experience in investigating and preventing corruption in government. He has established programs and controls to prevent internal wrongdoing in government and in commercial entities. Moreover, he has vast experience in uncovering those that attempt to corrupt government officials.

Mr. Bruh advises law enforcement agencies, provides expert witness testimony, conducts forensic accounting, and investigates money laundering, bank and corporate frauds for foreign as well as domestic entities.

After retirement from government service, Mr. Bruh served for two years on a Central Intelligence Agency Advisory Board. He is a senior advisor for law enforcement matters to the US Treasury Department and to the US Department of Defense for anti-terrorism, money laundering and other matters. On behalf of the US Treasury Department as well as certain private international organizations, he provides guidance to foreign law enforcement and tax agencies. He has consulted to the governments of more then two dozen nations, including China, Russia, other former USSR and Eastern Bloc republics, including the Ukraine, Romania, Kazahkstan, Bulgaria and Poland.

Over a three-year period, Mr. Bruh advised the Royal family and Prime Ministers of Liechtenstein in their efforts for their government to comply with international standards in combating organized crime and money laundering, in particular, with the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). He played a key part in the government of Liechtenstein's removal from the FATF's list of Non-Cooperating Countries and Territories (NCCT) in the fight against international organized crime. He also consulted for the largest bank in Liechtenstein in providing guidance for the prevention of money laundering and fraud. He served a three-year term as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Compliance and Quality Management, a Liechtenstein institution, dedicated to assisting the financial community in that nation to provide excellent services while operating under standards of best practices in preventing money laundering and other financial crimes.

Uniquely, Mr. Bruh was appointed as the first Director of two federal law enforcement organizations. In March 1990, then Secretary of Treasury Nicholas Brady appointed him to form and be the first Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen), a position he held until his retirement from Federal service. FinCen is a law enforcement financial intelligence center dedicated to combating major criminal organizations worldwide, engaged in money laundering, financial crimes and terrorism. Since then, more then 100 countries have formed similar organizations.

Prior to directing FinCen, Mr. Bruh was the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Criminal Investigation (CID) for the Internal Revenue Service. The latter organization, which is made up of some 3000 special agents, is primarily responsible for investigating tax fraud and money laundering.

In December 1981, Caspar Weinberger, then Secretary of Defense, appointed Mr. Bruh to form and be the first Director of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), a worldwide agency responsible for preventing, detecting and rooting out fraud and corruption in the Department of Defense. DCIS concentrated a significant part of its resources investigating fraud in government contracts that affected all the military services and Defense agencies. Mr. Bruh held the dual title of Assistant Inspector General for Investigations for the Department of Defense.

From July 1980 thru the end of 1981, Mr. Bruh served as the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations and Acting Inspector General for the General Services Administration. He was responsible for his organization detecting, preventing and investigating fraud in government contracts and corruption within the agency.

Mr. Bruh's extensive international experience includes being a member of the American delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is a 26 nation cooperative effort aimed toward adopting, implementing anti-money laundering, and fraud measures. He was the head of the American delegation to the FATF, during his last year in federal service. The delegation included senior representatives from the Departments of Treasury and Justice and from agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the US Customs Service, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He was also a member of the American delegation to Interpol during the last 7 years of his government service. He served on the advisory board of the Financial Fraud Institute of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and other law enforcement organizations.

Mr. Bruh continues to brief and train senior foreign officials on ways to strengthen their agencies and efforts against crime. Mr. Bruh has a well-established international reputation for conducting and directing complex investigations that cross many financial and geographical borders. He has served as an Expert Witness in complex and international cases regarding corruption, money laundering and fraud.

Mr. Bruh started his law enforcement career in 1966, immediately after his service as an officer in the United States Army. He became a special agent with the
Criminal Investigation Division, formerly, known as the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service. He received increasingly important positions in that agency, to include supervising a group that investigated major international narcotics traffickers, and subsequently, IRS's first political and official anti-corruption unit. He also served as the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Divisions of the Albany and Boston Districts.

Among his special assignments, was his investigating organized crime for the Manhattan (DOJ) Strike Force, his serving on the Knapp Commission to Investigate Allegations of Corruption in the New York City Police Department, and as the Chief Investigator on the President's Special Review Board (IRAN/CONTRA), the Tower Commission. Mr. Bruh testified many times before the Congress of the United States on pending legislation for money laundering, corruption, tax fraud and other criminal matters. He also testified in dozens of criminal and civil trials.

Mr. Bruh's numerous awards and commendations include those that he received from the President of the United States, the Secretaries of Treasury and Defense, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, and from many other federal and state law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Bruh earned his BS degree in economics statistics from New York University and studied accounting at NYU's Graduate School of Business. He is a graduate of a number of law enforcement and managerial schools, both civilian and military. He retired as a Colonel in the US Army Reserves, having served in various assignments as an infantry and intelligence officer, both active and reserve, while commanding units, including a Military Intelligence Detachment (Pentagon based), for 9 years.

He serves on the Board of Directors and Board of Advisors for commercial and non-profit organizations.