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Rob is a licensed private investigator with almost 32 years of investigative experience. He began his investigative career in 1984 as a Special Agent with the FBI where he conducted background security clearance and criminal investigations, and was a member of the FBI Alexandria Division SWAT team until he transferred to the United States Customs Service in 1988. From 1988 until 2003, Rob was a Senior Special Agent with U. S. Customs where he primarily conducted fraud, counterfeiting and smuggling investigations involving complex criminal conspiracies and enterprises.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, U. S. Customs was dissolved to form the Department of Homeland Security where Rob served as a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) until his retirement in September 2015. As a Special Agent with HSI, Rob was assigned to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force for more than ten years where he held a Top Secret security clearance and conducted sensitive investigations involving national security and immigration fraud.
Rob is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (Bachelor of Arts-1980) and the University of South Carolina School of Law (Juris Doctor-1983). He has extensive trial experience as a criminal investigator and has been a member of the South Carolina Bar since 1984.