Ken O’Connor formed Reliance Group with the goal of helping individuals, businesses and the legal industry get answers to complex issues. For more than 20 years, Ken delivered results for the FBI through successful investigations and prosecutions of corrupt public officials, financial and corporate fraudsters, organized crime groups, drug cartels, and violent criminals. Ken also mitigated foreign intelligence threats, conducted internal investigations, and vetted potential FBI and DOJ employees. Ken has years of courtroom experience to include introducing evidence, providing testimony, and serving as a strategic resource for prosecutors throughout the investigative, grand jury and trial stages. Through his work at the FBI, millions of dollars of illegally obtained assets were recovered. Ken also served as a member on FBI SWAT teams in Puerto Rico and Oregon. He later supervised FBI SWAT and FBI surveillance operations in Oregon.   

Apart from the FBI, Ken conducted financial, due diligence, and compliance investigations for Guidehouse, an international consulting firm.  Ken also evaluated the financial condition and risk profiles of financial institutions through onsite analysis of financial records, loan and investment portfolios, interest rate risk posture, and operating policies as an Examiner with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  In each of these capacities Ken identified numerous examples of fraud, identified millions of dollars in illegally obtained assets and made criminal referrals to law enforcement.  

 

Ken received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Bentley University.  ​Ken is a member of FBI Infragard and the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.  He also serves on the Board of Directors for a non-profit organization with a mission of mitigating homelessness in Central Florida. ​​