Kroll Inc.

Kroll Inc. was founded in 1972 by Jules B. Kroll as a private investigation and security firm. Since then, it has expanded into all areas of corporate risk mitigation including background screening, forensic accounting, bodyguard services, corporate restructuring, and technology services.

Business

The US government and the weapons industry is a major permanent contractor of the company. Further insurances and banking business often makes use of the offers.

Kroll was responsible for security of the entire WTC site until it went down in the 9/11 attacks. Local security boss John O’Neill had the job only for about a month and was one of the victims of the incident. He was a well known expert on terrorism and furthermore had knowledge of the building as he had researched the 1993 basement bombing attack on the World Trade Center while in the FBI.

In 2002, Kroll acquired Kelly McCann's firm Crucible Security Services. McCann is now Senior Vice President of Krolls security services and training departments.

Kroll was acquired by professional services firm Marsh & McLennan Companies in July 2004. Lead on the Marsh side as chairman and CEO was Jeffrey W. Greenberg, the son of AIG CEO Maurice R. Greenberg, but had to resign from his posts at March on October 25, 2004 in favour of Michael G. Cherkasky, who was formerly with Kroll.

In October 2004, the Brasil offices of Kroll Inc. were raided by the police because of alleged spying activities on the government.

...The investigation began in July after Brazil's largest newspaper reported Kroll obtained copies of e-mails written by a top adviser to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the course of its investigation for Brasil Telecom Participacoes SA...

The Brasil company claimed it had to pay too much money when buying a fixed line company from Telecom Italia.

Identity Theft

Kroll entered into a joint marketing agreement with legal service plan provider Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. in 2003, to distibute an identity theft product to consumers, called the Identity Theft Shield, the first time Kroll offered a service to individuals. As of June 30, 2006, Kroll had over 560,000 customers, according to Pre-Paid Legal's quarterly report. [1] In addition to the Pre-Paid Legal subscribers, Kroll's Identity Theft Shield serves about 500,000 other consumers.

Kroll's involvement in The Heroin Trail case

In the prominent First Amendment case over The Heroin Trail stories in New York Newsday, attorney Floyd Abrams enlisted Kroll's help to find an eyewitness: "But was it conceivable that we could come up with an eyewitness who could be of help? I called Matt Kroll, the CEO of Kroll Associates, the nation's most acclaimed investigative firm, to ask him if he could inquire, through the extensive range of former law enforcement officials employed by him, whether Karaduman was known to be a drug trafficker in Istanbul." Kroll came through: two weeks into the trial the firm produced Faraculah Arras, who was prepared to testify he was involved in one of Karaduman's drug deals. "I was stunned," recalled Abrams.

See also

• Securacom
• Matt Kroll

External

• Corporate website
• Who Killed John O'Neill?, movie on 9/11 CIA background structure,