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A B O U T U S
 John F. Good, Chief
Executive Officer
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Mr. Good was previously with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). His career
with the Bureau
spanned multiple areas of expertise, culminating with his appointment
as head of the Bureau's Long Island, New York office and all of its
operations.
During his tenure with the FBI, Mr. Good was responsible for the
direction of
numerous large and well-known cases including ABSCAM, one
of the most famous
political corruption cases in U.S. History. Mr. Good
has appeared as an expert
witness before Congressional Committees in
both the Senate and House of Representatives. He has participated in
numerous nationwide security seminars.
He has had multiple radio and
television appearances - most recently the Montel
Williams Show. He has
been invited to speak before both government and corporate groups,
including the Young President's Organization.
Mr. Good is a native of New York and received his Bachelor of Science
from Fordham University. He had post graduate studies in Psychology at
the University of Virginia
and is a U.S. Navy veteran.
Thomas A. Egan, Director and Chief Operating
Officer 
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Mr. Egan is a 20 year veteran of
the NYPD specializing in white collar crime. His investigative
expertise includes commercial and residential theft, robbery, burglary,
embezzlement, credit card fraud, check fraud, bank fraud, and stock
fraud. He has
been certified as an expert witness in larceny, robbery
and burglary cases.
As a detective in the Midtown Precinct North and Midtown Precinct
South, Mr. Egan
was responsible for large scale investigations into
identity theft and credit card fraud.
He was the lead investigator in
numerous multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial criminal
investigations. Mr. Egan designed and implemented a program which
ensured
the cooperation of different investigative units within the
NYPD, with other departments
and private investigative entitites.
Mr. Egan is a consultant with a video surveillance company,
specializing in state-of-the-
art video technology for security purposes.
Mr. Egan's professional training includes; robbery pattern
identification, special victims investigation, insurance fraud,
identity theft, computer investigations, burglary investigation, credit
card fraud and executive protection.
Joseph P. Smith, Managing Director, Washington
D.C.
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Mr. Smith joined LMGI in 1999 to
develop and manage the company's international business as well as to
develop political and local contacts in the Washington D.C
area.
Prior to joining LMGI, Mr. Smith had been with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
During his tenure with the FBI, Mr. Smith served in many
positions, including supervisor
of white-collar crime investigations in
New York and legal counsel to the Director,
New York FBI office. He
also served as a member of the internal inspection staff responsible
for assessing field operations and their working relationships with
internal management and staff.
Mr. Smith completed his career as the Assistant Legal Attache´,
United States
Embassy, Brussels, Belgium. As the representative of the
FBI in Belgium, The
Netherlands and Luxembourg, he worked with justice
ministries, police and intelligence agencies to enhance existing
programs and initiate new ones to deal with intensifying multinational
crime. While posted to Brussels, Mr. Smith helped implement United
States participation in European Commission justice issues and in the
International
War Crimes Tribunal regarding the former Yugoslavia. He
was greatly responsible for enlarging the FBI's presence overseas.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Bar, graduating Juris Doctor in 1969 from
William and
Mary Law School. He was admitted to practice in the U.S.
Supreme Court, Virginia,
and is presently a member of the American,
Virginia State, District of Columbia and Federal Bar Associations.
Nicholas J. Panella,
Director,
Special Operations
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Mr. Panella was formerly with the
U.S. Drug Administration, where he rose through
the ranks, starting as
a special agent in New York City and eventually becoming the Deputy
Regional Director of the DEA's Paris office where he directed all
enforcement operations in Europe and the Middle East. During this
period, he supervised the DEA
agent force in France that immobilized
the infamous French Connection.
Prior to his assignment in France, Mr. Panella served as the Narcotic
Attache´ in
Istanbul, Rome and Montreal. He maintained police
liaison at the highest level in
most major European and Middle Eastern
cities and was awarded the French Police
Medal of Honor, the highest
award. He has additional experience assisting numerous
major U.S.
corporations in developing corporate intelligence, asset searches and
executive protection services.
Mr. Panella holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Hunter
College in
New York City. He is fluent in French and Italian. He is an
active member of the Association of Former Federal Narcotic Agents
(AFFNA).
Thomas F. Lagatol, III,
Director
of Physical Security &
Threat Assessment
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Mr. Lagatol joined LMGI after
retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation with
thirty years of
service. He is a graduate of the United States State Department's
course on building security design and construction.
During the last fifteen years of his FBI career, Mr. Lagatol became a
specialist in
threat assessments, physical security enhancements and
technical surveillance
counter-measures. As such, he conducted surveys
at fifty United States Embassies
throughout the world. He was
responsible for identifying any existing physical and/or
procedural
security weakness and for recommending appropriate cost effective
measures to correct the problems.
Mr. Lagatol has trained thousands of police officers from Canada to
Central America
and fellow FBI Special Agents. He has taught classes on
topics ranging from electronic counter-measures to firearms
instruction.
He was an original member of the FBI New
York Office's Counter
Skyjacking Team, which was later reorganized into the first FBI SWAT
Team.
Mr. Lagatol has conducted physical security and counter surveillance
inspections for
such entities as Fortune 500 companies, educational
institutions, and union officials.
John Baner, Director
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Mr. Baner is a 20 year veteran of the NYPD. During his career, Mr.
Baner acquired extensive investigative experience. As a detective in
the narcotics division, he
investigated large scale narcotics and money
laundering criminal enterprises. While
with the Midtown Precinct North,
Detective Squad, he investigated a broad spectrum
of criminal and
non-criminal incidents ranging from petit larceny to homicide. During
his time in the rank of sergeant, Mr. Baner handled internal
investigations for a period
of two years, before being transferred to
the Midtown Precinct South, Detective Squad where he managed an office
of twenty five to thirty five detective-investigators. Mr. Baner also
had the responsibility of liaison with other law enforcement entities
and community leaders.
Mr. Baner's investigative expertise includes robbery, burglary,
white-collar crimes and corruption. He has extensive training and
experience with investigative techniques such
as automobile and
pedestrian surveillance, interrogation, evidence collection and crime
scene management and control. Mr. Baner has additional training in
insurance fraud, computer investigations, and automobile crime. He
received his Bachelor of Science
degree from Long Island University's
CW Post campus and is a Notary Public in New
York State.
John Lynott, Fire
Safety and Security Director
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Mr.
Lynott worked five years as a Police Officer with the New York Police
Department (NYPD). He is a retired lieutenant from the Fire Department,
New York (FDNY) with
over twenty years of experience. His career has
taken him through one of the most
active fire houses in Brooklyn,
Ladder 105. He was most recently an instructor in the
FDNY Academy,
where he instructed new recruits as well as seasoned veterans in
the
latest firefighting techniques. Following the tragic events of
September 11, 2001,
Mr. Lynott became the focal point of the FDNY's
efforts to bring the department to a
new level of disaster
preparedness. He has also been trained in the handling of
hazardous
materials.
Mr. Lynott
has conducted numerous fire safety audits at residential and
commercial establishments throughout New York City. He currently
teaches Fire Safety at New
York University and is a certified Fire
Investigator, having received training in the investigation of reported
arson and explosion. Mr. Lynott is also a certified instructor
in the
training of individuals in Terrorist Awareness and Disaster
Preparedness.
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