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8/10/2009 News Release
Money, Murder and the Mob: How Crime Impacts Your Bottom Line

Contact: Adrienne Rupp Business and Industry Association
Office: 603.224.5388 x114
Mobile: 603.731.7754
arupp@nhbia.org

September 23 business event will feature top FBI official in New England.

CONCORD, N.H. – Aug. 10, 2009 – On September 23, the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire will host a luncheon event with Special Agent in Charge Warren Bamford of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Boston field office. Bamford is the FBI’s top law enforcement official in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine.

The event, titled “Money, Murder and the Mob: How Crime Impacts Your Bottom Line,” will be held September 23 at the Center of New Hampshire, Manchester from noon to 1:30 p.m. Registration the day of the event begins at 11:30 a.m.

Bamford, who leads a team of professionals assigned to fighting domestic and international terrorism, as well as criminal matters throughout New England, will speak about issues of concern to the business and law enforcement communities, including domestic terrorism, organized crime and white collar crime.

A 22-year veteran of the FBI, Bamford began serving as special agent in charge of the Boston field office in 2007. Throughout his career, Bamford served in the Washington, D.C., New Haven and Baltimore field offices where he worked extensively in the violent crime program. He was an assistant section chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section and an assistant special agent in charge in the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group where he oversaw the crisis management, negotiation, bomb data center, hazardous devices response and rapid deployment programs.

As section chief of the Strategic Information and Operations Center at FBI headquarters, Bamford helped manage crisis and special events by ensuring the timely and effective flow of operational information between field offices, executives, substantive units and other government agencies. Before reporting to Boston, he served as special agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office’s Counterterrorism and Intelligence Division. In this role, he oversaw about 450 investigative and analytical personnel, and managed crisis response and special events.

A graduate of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, Bamford was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer after graduation and served until 1986, when he began duty as a special agent with the FBI.

The cost to attend the luncheon is $35 for BIA and Capitol Connect members and $49 for non members. To register, call 603-224-5388 x116 or visit acteva.com/go/nhbia.