type subsidiary founded 2010 headquarters new york city united states key people william bratton chairman ; michael beber ceo number of employees 100 parent altegrity inc. website www.altegrityrisk.com altegrity risk international ari was a new york city based global risk consulting and information services company . a subsidiary of altegrity inc. of falls church va ari provided investigations business intelligence forensic accounting compliance and monitoring and security services to businesses and government agencies around the world . contents 1 founding and product offerings 2 security failures 3 bankruptcy 4 see also 5 references founding and product offerings edit after launching in february 2010 the company named william bratton chairman 1 and acquired corporate risk international cri 2 a firm that has performed over 65 000 due diligence reviews and investigations in more than 150 countries . altegrity risk international investigated backgrounds of companies and individuals on behalf of clients in the course of both pre emptive and post crisis engagements . ari was the firm that vetted the background of whistleblower edward snowden . 3 ari also produced due diligence reviews for clients involved in principal investing hedge fund investments in the course of both compliance and transactional diligence as well as those who seek to understand risk and opportunities associated with doing business with individuals and companies worldwide . altegrity security consulting provided advisory and training services to international civilian police departments consulting on operational effectiveness as well as crisis management and through cri strategies and services for managing kidnap ransom and extortion crisis . security failures edit through its subsidiary usis altegrity is the company which vetted the security clearance of edward snowden and aaron alexis . 4 the u.s. government terminated two major contracts with the company after security intrusions said to be state sponsored . 4 kroll laboratory specialists inc. kls another subsidiary of kroll inc. was sued by eric landon in ny landon v. kroll for failing to comply with nys and other standards for forensic toxicology testing whereby kls was to provide completed drug tests to law enforcement agencies to be used as evidence in courts . as in usis snowden kls was profiteering by skipping necessary aspects of the toxicology testing . as a result countless people were falsely prosecuted and incarcerated on the kls fraudulent lab reports . bankruptcy edit ari was a subsidiary of altegrity inc and was owned by providence equity partners a venture capital firm . as of 31 december 2014 creditors led by oaktree capital management were nearing an agreement to seize control of altegrity inc. 3 in february 2015 the company filed for bankruptcy . 4 5 after their bankruptcy altegrity settled with the u.s. justice department for 30 million over fraud charges . 6 ari became part of the kroll inc. business unit . 7 see also edit usis references edit pfeifer stuart 28 january 2010 . william bratton launches global security firm monday . los angeles times . retrieved 9 december 2014 . government security news . altegrity launches ari which acquires cri . gsnmagazine.com . retrieved 9 december 2014 . a b kosman josh 31 december 2014 . creditors nearing agreement to seize snowden vetter altegrity . new york post . a b c sandler linda ; tan andrea 2015 02 09 . altegrity files for bankruptcy after losing vetting contracts . bloomberg . altegrity chapter 11 petition pdf . pacermonitor . pacermonitor . retrieved 7 june 2016 . http www.wsj.com articles u s settles whistleblower suit against altegrity 1440090102 our companies . altegrity.com . retrieved 9 december 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title altegrity risk international & oldid 743628016 categories management consulting firms of the united statesprivate detectives and investigatorssecurity companiescompanies based in new york citybusiness services companies established in 2010american companies established in 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 13 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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