Dennis Lormel
Terrorist Financing and White Collar Crime Expert
Dennis has more than 30 years of government service experience with almost 28 years as an FBI Special Agent. During his distinguished career, Dennis amassed extensive major case experience as a street agent, supervisor and senior executive, particularly in complex financial related investigative matters.
Dennis has served as Chief, Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division, FBI Headquarters, where he was responsible for program management of the FBI’s White Collar Crime Program. In that capacity, he implemented a series of noteworthy national investigative initiatives.
Immediately following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Dennis established and directed the FBI’s comprehensive terrorist financing initiative. He developed and implemented a variety of proactive and progressive investigative methodologies. This evolved into the formation of The Terrorist Financing Operations Section within the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI. This multi-agency, multi-disciplined entity is one of the world’s elite operations for tracking, investigating and disrupting terrorist-related financial activity.
Since his retirement from the FBI, Dennis has served as Director of Forensic Audits with the AES Corporation, a leading multi-billion dollar global power company. He also has served as Senior Vice President, Anti-Money Laundering, with the full service corporate security consulting firm Corporate Risk International.
Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime Consultant and Speaker
Dennis provides consulting and training related to terrorist financing, money laundering, fraud and financial crimes. He has spoken on terrorist financing and money laundering at hundreds of domestic and international conferences. In addition, Mr. Lormel is an Advisor to the Congressional Anti-Terrorist Financing Task Force, chaired by Representative Sue Kelly. He also serves as a contributing expert to the Counterterrorism Blog.
Professional Recognition
Dennis received numerous commendations and awards to include the Department of Justice, Criminal Division’s, Assistant Attorney General Award for Investigative Initiative and the Central Intelligence Agency’s George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism.
