Awards
Jay Groob of Brookline Wins “International Investigator of the Year” Award
August 23, 2002
Jay Groob (l) with the 2001 CII Investigator of the Year Recipient Tom Herder
Jay Groob, Certified International Investigator (CII) and Managing Director of American Investigative Services, Inc. of Brookline, MA, and New York, NY was presented with the "International Investigator of the Year" Award at the 2002 Council of International Investigators' Annual General Meeting in New Orleans in August.
The Council is an elite organization of private investigators that includes officers from Scotland Yard, the FBI and Interpol. The International Investigator of the Year Award was established in 1976 when The Association of British Investigators delivered a silver loving cup to the Council with the request that it be presented each year to a Council member who best exemplifies the high professional and moral standards of the Council. This Award is considered the most prestigious worldwide recognition of a professional investigator.
Jay Groob's agency American Investigative Services, Inc., has a reputation for high-quality, cost-effective and confidential investigations since 1976. A cum laude graduate of Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, Mr. Groob is a leading authority on investigative techniques in the Northeast, and has served the Council as Northeast Regional Director, Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee and now as its newly elected Third Vice President.
A certified member of the Council of International Investigators (CII), he is also a member of the National Association of Legal Investigators (NALI), Licensed Private Investigators Association of Massachusetts (LPDAM), National Association of Investigative Specialists (NAIS), National Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS), Investigators On-Line Network, International Association of Auto Theft Investigators, and the International Association of Arson Investigators.
Mr. Groob has worked in the investigative profession for over 20 years, and has been instrumental in the investigation of several high-profile criminal matters ranging from defense of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army when the Superior Courthouse here in Boston was bombed, to working with William Kuntsler (deceased) on human rights violation cases for the Center of Constitutional Rights in New York.
Early in his career, Mr. Groob was instrumental in the defense of a young Boston Police cadet charged with murder, and found glaring inconsistencies in the State's case. So crucial were Mr. Groob's contributions that the presiding judge allowed him to "pass the bar" and take the second chair at the defense table. This was the genesis of Mr. Groob's focus on criminal investigations.
Most recently, Mr. Groob has often been in the media, having taken on The Newton Taxpayers Association "mailgate" mystery. He was retained by the NTA to find out who sent a hate letter to an unknown number of Newton, MA. residents just days before voters approved an $11.5 million Proposition 2 1/2 override on April 30.
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