Investigation & Fraud Prevention Team
Our investigators provide thorough, timely and discrete internal investigations relating to suspected breaches of laws, government regulations or organizational rules. They are able to perform extensive background and asset searches.
Owen Colomb
Owen has over 40 years of experience in conducting a wide range of investigations. He started as an Accounting Technician with the FBI in Boston, assigned to the White Collar Crime Squad. He then spent 18 years with the Maine Office of Attorney General assigned as a Special Investigator/Detective with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigating fraud perpetrated by Medicaid providers, as well as investigating patient abuse and neglect cases and theft of patient funds. He also investigated other white collar crimes. Owen moved to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland, Maine in 1997 where he was employed as a Health Care Fraud Investigator for 16 years, often working on multi-agency investigations of a complex nature. He also participated in the
Suspicious Activity Report Review Committee. After “retiring” from the federal government, Owen became a contractor for FSA Federal assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, conducting complex financial analyses relating to Asset Forfeiture matters for nearly 12 years. As a result of his work, millions of dollars in assets were identified and seized by the government.
Tom Cusick
Tom retired from federal service after a 31-year tenure with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. At the time of his retirement, Tom had been the Supervisory Special Agent in charge of IRS’s criminal investigation operations for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont for eight years. Tom has extensive experience as a financial auditor and investigator, including service as the lead financial investigator in the Iran-Contra investigation. Tom also served as a Branch Chief for the United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a government operation with the mission of safeguarding the nation’s financial system from the abuses of financial crime, including terrorist financing, money laundering, and other illicit activity. Tom is affiliated with MRG as a senior investigator in tax, financial and related due diligence matters.
Martin Maguire
Marty has over 30 years of experience in both the private sector and federal law enforcement. Before entering private practice, Marty was the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office at the Office of the Inspector General. In that capacity, he managed and directed highly sensitive and confidential investigations regarding waste, fraud, and abuse within the Department of Justice. Marty spent 20 years at the DEA, a tenure that included managing an office of fifty personnel as the Special Agent-in-Charge at the DEA’s Long Island Office; supervising federal agents, state police, and city detectives during international and domestic investigations as a Group Supervisor of the New York DEA Task Force; and representing the DEA as a senior liaison officer in Germany. While in private practice, Marty was a participant in the AML project providing Patriot Act and investigative support to banks and the Director of Investigations for the Office of the Commissioner for Major League Baseball.
Peter Vinton
A former special agent for the DEA, Peter has 28 years experience in complex international drug trafficking, money laundering and asset investigations. Peter also served as Coordinator of DEA’s International Training Programs in Africa, South America, Asia and Australia, and developed extensive contacts with high level law enforcement and intelligence officials from those countries. Now in the private sector, Peter frequently is asked to work on special assignments for the U.S. Department of State as well as other private investigations.
