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ROBERT J. NIEVES

RJNieves@BERG-Associates.com

Mr. Nieves, an owner and founder of BERG Associates, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947 and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Business Administration from St. John's University in 1969. Later that year he was sworn in as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (reorganized in 1973 as the DEA).  During his 26 years with DEA, Mr. Nieves rose through the ranks to the highest levels of the agency retiring in October 1995 as the Chief of International Operations.  As DEA's principal representative to the Interagency and International Community (U.N., OAS, Interpol), Mr. Nieves was charged with formulating and implementing DEA's International Counter Drug and Financial Crime Strategies, in addition to managing and supervising the security of DEA's operations and facilities overseas (over 70 offices in 50 countries).

Mr. Nieves and his partners at BERG Associates currently dedicate themselves to:

  • Corporate Clients – providing services regarding the prevention and detection of Money Laundering, Forensic Auditing, theft of Intellectual Property, Business Asset Protection and Risk Management.

  • Foreign Government Authorities – providing litigation support for Civil RICO actions pending in the US Federal Courts. 

  • US Government Law Enforcement Agencies – providing support for active Financial Investigations, specializing in those that involving Asset Identification and Asset Forfeiture.

Mr. Nieves has served as a consultant specializing in Trans-National Crime, Security and Counter Drug matters.  A recognized expert in this field, Mr. Nieves is regularly called upon to analyze the international organized crime situation by the media, to include CBS, NBC and The New York Times. In addition, he lectures on the subject and participates in academic studies of the problem.  Mr. Nieves has received numerous awards and commendations during his career, from among others, the Colombian National Police, the NYPD, the Policia de Puerto Rico and the Judicial Police in Costa Rica.

In prior DEA assignments, Mr. Nieves served as the Director of Major Investigations, managing and coordinating DEA's global attack on the cartels' drug trafficking and money laundering infrastructure.  Overseas assignments included tours of duty in San Jose, Costa Rica as the DEA Attaché and in the Caribbean, based out of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Mr. Nieves has attended courses of instruction at Harvard University, JFK School of Government, National and International Security Program, the Brookings Institution and he is a research fellow at the National Strategy Information Center in Washington, DC.  Mr. Nieves is the past President of the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents (AFFNA), a fraternal organization for retired DEA Agents. He is also on the Advisory Board of Project Alert at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.