Charlie Price

Managing Director – Investigations

Charlie Price has more than four decades of experience successfully identifying, understanding, and mitigating risk.  His expertise and unique experiences allow him to provide corporate decision makers with the relevant and reliable information they need to make good decisions – ones that protect their employees, shareholders, products, and brands.

As a decorated FBI Agent for more than 28 years, Charlie established a national reputation as an expert in the “art of interviewing” and developed a proven track record of quickly resolving complex white-collar investigations.  Throughout his FBI career, Charlie led numerous high-profile national and international investigations including cases involving corporate fraud, money laundering, bribery, public corruption, bank and insurance fraud, extortion, and embezzlement.

Charlie is able to resolve complex matters quickly due to his skill in developing and implementing creative and target-specific interview and investigative strategies designed to obtain confessions. In 2011, Charlie received the Director’s Award for Excellence in HUMINT (human intelligence) for interviews and interrogations he performed on classified national security matters in Afghanistan. Charlie has obtained confessions from a wide variety of criminal subjects, including con-men, drug dealers, child pornographers, lawyers, accountants, foreign fighters, and a spy.  Confessions that Charlie obtained have led to the convictions of three sitting members of Congress.  Jerri Williams’ interview of Charlie is one of the 25 most downloaded episodes of her podcast  https://jerriwilliams.com/245-charlie-price-artful-interviews-confessions-and-signed-statements/.

During his career, Charlie received more than a dozen Outstanding Public Service Awards from U.S. Attorneys’ offices and numerous commendations and awards from the FBI Director for excellence in investigation.  He served as an Assault Team Leader on the FBI’s Washington Field Office SWAT team, and he was a firearms instructor for more than 20 years.  Charlie deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, where he provided support to various U.S. military and intelligence units.

Since retiring from the FBI, Charlie has conducted a wide variety of private sector investigations on behalf of C-Suite executives, corporate boards, and their counsel, including investigations into allegations of executive misconduct, conflicts of interest, embezzlement, bribery, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, sexual assault, and stock-price manipulation.

Charlie has also served as the Chief Security Officer of a Fortune 500 company and the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of a privately-held company that owns and manages over $4 billion in real estate.   Currently a “recovering accountant,” Charlie was a licensed Certified Public Accountant for nearly 40 years.