Chase and Associates - Forensic Investigative Services

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Chase & Associates employs former federal law enforcement officers throughout the United States, as well as former law enforcement officers located in several foreign jurisdictions. The company's associates in North America, Europe, South America, Central America, and several Caribbean islands have routinely resolved issues for clients in a discreet and expeditious manner.

Robert Ulmer // Vice President

Professional Experience

Chase & Associates, Inc., 2005 - 2007 and 2009 - Present

Vice President

In May 2005, Mr. Ulmer first joined Chase and Associates, Inc., a company providing investigative services, litigation support, training, and expert witness services. Mr. Ulmer’s areas of expertise include issues involving financial fraud, forensic accounting, asset location, money laundering and traditional organized crime. Through Chase, Mr. Ulmer provides investigative services to law firms, financial institutions and both public and private corporations. After taking a 21 month break in service when he worked for a law firm that specialized in consumer advocacy, Mr. Ulmer returned to Chase where he has resumed his role specializing in forensic investigations of white collar crimes.

James, Hoyer, Newcomer, Smiljanich and Yanchunis, PA, 2007 - 2009

Staff Investigator

In August 2007, Mr. Ulmer joined the investigative staff of the James Hoyer law firm in Tampa, Florida, a firm that practices primarily consumer advocacy and class action law. Mr. Ulmer provided investigative support to attorneys litigating class action law suits against major mortgage lenders and other public companies that practiced predatory lending and deceptive marketing tactics in the sale of their products and services.

State Attorney’s Office, 1997 - 2005

Criminal Investigator

In September 1997, Mr. Ulmer joined the State Attorney’s Office, located in Clearwater, Florida. This office’s jurisdiction covers both Pinellas and Pasco Counties. Mr. Ulmer is a Certified Law Enforcement Officer in the State of Florida as well as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). During his tenure as an investigator for the State Attorney, he was responsible for handling complex financial fraud investigations as the primary investigator in many theft and fraud cases referred directly to the office by victims that included individual citizens as well as corporate entities. In addition, Mr. Ulmer served in the capacity as investigative liaison between law enforcement agencies and assistant state attorneys whose responsibility it was to successfully prosecute cases in criminal court. Mr. Ulmer regularly advised police officers, prosecutors and crime victims of successful investigative strategies and techniques to be employed during an investigation so that cases would likely result in the successful prosecution of defendants. Mr. Ulmer has testified on numerous occasions in circuit criminal court as an expert in financial fraud matters. This testimony was offered in trials, motion hearings, restitution hearings and depositions. Mr. Ulmer’s investigations included grand theft, schemes to defraud, money laundering, financial exploitation of the elderly and RICO violations among others. His investigations have resulted in excess of 25 convictions.

R. Ulmer Investigations, Inc., 1996 - 1997

Licensed Private Investigator

After retiring from a highly successful 24-year career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Mr. Ulmer became a licensed Private Investigator in the State of Florida and opened his own investigative agency. During this time frame, Mr. Ulmer specialized in cases involving forensic accounting, white-collar crime defense, background investigations, civil and personal injury investigations, insurance fraud investigations, physical surveillance and asset location and recovery.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1972-1980 and 1981-1996

Special Agent

As a Special Agent with the FBI, Mr. Ulmer was involved in investigations that covered virtually every criminal violation within the FBI’s criminal jurisdiction. However, during his 24-year tenure as an FBI Agent, his primary specialties were white-collar crime and traditional organized crime. Mr. Ulmer began his career in Cleveland where he was noted for over 50 arrests of military deserters in only a six-month period. After being transferred to the Boston Office, Mr. Ulmer worked on a white-collar squad that investigated fraud against the government of programs and entitlements provided by the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Mr. Ulmer was selected to attend the FBI Spanish language school and this was followed by a 2-year assignment in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Although assigned to the white-collar squad there, Mr. Ulmer also soon found himself actively investigating violent crimes that included bank robbery, kidnapping and Crimes on a Government Reservation. In 1978, Mr. Ulmer was transferred to the Newark, N.J. Office where he was made Primary Case Agent on an FBI special investigation entitled UNIRAC. This investigation, which was nationwide in scope, targeted Mafia infiltration of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). Mr. Ulmer was involved exclusively in this case for approximately three years and he was responsible for coordinating the Newark N.J. portion of the investigation with the New York Office of the FBI and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where the resulting trials were held. Approximately 65 defendants including made Mafia members and associates along with labor union officials and shipping industry executives were indicted and convicted in New York alone. After the end of the trials, Mr. Ulmer was transferred to the Franklin Township N.J. Office where he spent four additional years investigating primarily public corruption, wire fraud and bank fraud cases.

In 1987, Mr. Ulmer was promoted to the position of Supervisory Special Agent at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. For two years at FBIHQ, he worked in the Budget Section and was actively involved in the Budget Formulation process for the FBI as well as privatization of several FBI functions designed to effect cost savings to the FBI. In the third year, Mr. Ulmer was transferred to the Organized Crime Section at FBIHQ where he supervised all organized crime investigations in five FBI Field Offices.

In 1990, Mr. Ulmer was transferred to Buffalo, N.Y. where he was named as the Supervisor of the Organized Crime and Drug Squad. During his two-year tenure there, agents under Mr. Ulmer’s supervision successfully identified and prosecuted two large drug trafficking organizations and also made deep inroads into the Maggadino La Cosa Nostra family that utilized the Laborers Union as its power base. Investigations that were begun under Mr. Ulmer’s supervision ultimately resulted in the prosecution and conviction of the majority of the hierarchy of the LCN family and the return of the Laborer’s Union local into the hands of the law abiding union members. While assigned to the Buffalo FBI, Mr. Ulmer testified as an expert in matters of traditional organized crime in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, Rochester, N.Y. This testimony was in connection with a civil RICO case brought by the US Department of Justice against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and was designed to rid the Rochester IBT local of Mafia control. This civil RICO action was successful.

Finally, in 1992, Mr. Ulmer was transferred to the Tampa FBI Office where he was Co-Case Agent in a two-year investigation that targeted corruption in the Hillsborough County Courthouse. At the conclusion of the investigation, an assistant state attorney and defense attorney were convicted of bribery and Hobbs Act violations. In his final two years prior to his retirement, Mr. Ulmer was case Agent on numerous successful complex money laundering and wire fraud cases. His most prominent investigation resulted in the indictment and convictions of five con men who attempted to defraud The Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team after the Phil Esposito led group had been awarded an NHL franchise. While in Tampa, Mr. Ulmer also served as an assistant office Media Coordinator and regularly interacted with members of TV, radio and the written press.

Fedders Corporation, 1980-1981

Corporate Director of Security

Mr. Ulmer, for a short time, served as the Corporate Director of Security for the Fedders Corporation, a publicly traded international company that manufactured air conditioning units for residential and industrial use. While at Fedders, Mr. Ulmer was responsible for areas of physical and plant security, site surveys, internal security and investigations of employee theft and fraud.

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