Thomas M. Jobes
Senior manager-Forensic Accounting group
Director of litigation support services

Thomas M. Jobes is a Senior Manager in the Forensic Accounting Group and Director of Litigation Support Services.  He offers a unique blend of federal law enforcement experience and practical forensic accounting skills which he developed and perdected during his nearly twenty seven year career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  During his career in government service, Thom was primarily assigned to, and specialized in, White Collar Crime Investigations throughout the New York metropolitan area.  Thom has investigated a variety of criminal activities in the White Collar Crime area and had developed expertise in the investigation of complex frauds and corruption matters.  He supervised investigations involving multiple law enforcement agencies from the Federal, State, County and Local levels.  His investigative experience included detailed financial analysis, bank fraud, extensive document review and control, money laundering, tax evasion, off-shore accounts, interview expertise, wire fraud, mail fraud and major case organization.

Thom also has counter-terrorism experience and was assigned to the Newark, New Jersey Joint Counterterrorism Task Force (JTTF) for a number of years in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  He was the acting supervisor of the JTTF in 1990 during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.  The Newark JTTF, under his supervision, received a U.S. Army Citation for their significant contribution to the U.S. Army mission during Operation Desert Storm.

Thom has developed extensive liaison with numerous other law enforcement and government agencies throughout the country to include the United States Attorney's Offices, Central Intelligence Agency, United States Army, United States Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigative Division, New Jersey State Police, as well as numerous other Federal, State and local agencies. 

At Sobel & Co., LLC, Thom has worked on a number of high profile engagements beginning with an extensive engagement for a Federal Monitor appointed pursuant to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement at a large New Jersey health care provider.  Thom has also conducted a compliance review for the Board of Director’s at a regional New Jersey Medical Center and several engagements on behalf of banking institutions.

Thom is a graduate of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting.  Prior to his appointment to the FBI, he worked as an internal auditor for a state chartered bank.