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Frank
Santorsola
Frank Santorsola is the former Chief Criminal Investigator for the
Westchester County District Attorney’s Office. He holds a
B.S. (education) degree from the University of Bridgeport. He worked
in various undercover capacities during his career and, in particular,
infiltrated a number of criminal organizations. He also
conducted numerous types of narcotics and conventional criminal
investigations and managed over thirty detectives who worked for
the District Attorney. Many of the District Attorney’s most
successful organized crime cases were investigated by CCI Santorsola,
his unit investigators, worked with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration,
the State and County Police, NYPD and local Westchester police departments.
He was in law enforcement for a total of twenty-seven years. |
Richard
D. Santorsola
Richard D. Santorsola, a twenty-four year veteran of law enforcement,
began his career as a criminal investigator. Having both a B.A.
degree in economics and an M.B.A. degree in accounting from Iona
College, Richard worked closely with personnel from the Westchester
County DA's Frauds Bureau conducting fraud audits as well as working
with banks and public agencies in order to pursue embezzlers and
others stealing money from corporations and individuals. In 1981,
he joined the New York State Organized Crime Task Force where he
worked for a total of nine years as a Special Investigator with
that agency. His concentration during that period was in the areas
of financial crimes and schemes, labor racketeering, environmental
crimes and the financial aspects of narcotics trafficking. Richard
also worked for ITT Corporation as an investigator in its Security
Department where he conducted national and international fraud investigations
(embezzlements and bankruptcies) primarily for ITT Consumer and
Commercial Financial Corporation, a subsidiary of ITT Corp. Later
he worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as Director
of Revenue Audit and Control. In 1994, he returned to the DA’s
Office where he was the Chief Administrator for the office overseeing
the District Attorney’s budget, all grants, non-legal personnel
and administrative services for four years. In 1998, he returned
to the Criminal Investigators Unit as a Senior Criminal Investigator.
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Jonathan Z. Friedman
Jonathan Z. Friedman, a consultant to the firm, has been in law enforcement for over thirty years. He was appointed a Westchester County, New York Assistant District Attorney in 1972. He rose through the ranks to become chief of the Frauds Bureau. In that capacity, he oversaw the investigation of white collar and fraud crimes, consumer protection and official corruption probes. From 1981 to 1993, he was a supervising Task Force Attorney with the State-wide Organized Crime Task Force. In 1994, Mr. Friedman returned to the DA's Office as Chief of the Investigation Division where he supervised prosecutions in Economic Crimes, Narcotics Trafficking, Organized Crime & Criminal Enterprises, Public Integrity, Environmental Crimes, High-Tech Computer Crimes, Auto Theft and Bias Crimes. As Chief of Investigations, Mr. Friedman oversaw numerous threat and assault cases where individuals and corporations were affected. While at OCTF, he participated in two major bankruptcy investigations, one of which led to a major trial in upstate Tompkins County , New York . Mr. Friedman currently teaches Arson and Evidence Collection courses for the New York State Academy of Fire Sciences. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the Westchester County Arson Task Force since 1994. |
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