Robert Ulmer // Vice President
Robert Ulmer retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1996 after concluding a successful 24 year career as a Special Agent. Mr. Ulmer has an accounting degree from Niagara University and is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
During his 24 year career as an FBI Special Agent, Mr. Ulmer’s investigative focus was primarily in the areas of white collar crime and organized crime. Some of his more successful investigations included bank fraud and wire fraud convictions of con men who attempted to defraud the Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey team, corrupt public officials in New Jersey and Florida who attempted to use their positions of trust in government for personal gain, and traditional La Cosa Nostra (LCN) crime members who had infiltrated legitimate labor unions such as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers Union and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). Mr. Ulmer also spent five years as a Special Agent Supervisor, both at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC and the Buffalo, New York Field Office.
In 1997, Mr. Ulmer became a certified law enforcement officer in Florida and a criminal investigator for the State Attorney’s Office for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida in Clearwater, Florida. Mr. Ulmer’s investigative responsibilities focused almost exclusively on the investigation and prosecution of complex financial fraud cases. Mr. Ulmer’s responsibilities as an investigator for the State Attorney included witness interviews, review and analysis of financial documents, trial preparation, expert witness testimony and investigative liaison between law enforcement and prosecutors. His investigations resulted in successful prosecutions of defendants for money laundering, grand theft, schemes to defraud, RICO and exploitation of the elderly.
Mr. Ulmer has testified as an expert witness in Organized Crime matters in Federal Court and as an expert witness in financial fraud matters in Circuit Court in the State of Florida.
Mr. Ulmer is a former United States Army officer, a Vietnam Veteran and a Bronze Star recipient.