David Grossman, Director of Investigations
In November 2005, Inspector General David Hoffman named former FBI agent Dave Grossman as Director of Investigations. Grossman retired from the FBI in 1999 after over 21 years of service. Prior to his FBI career, Grossman served for five years with the Internal Revenue Service as a Revenue Officer and Estate and Gift Tax Attorney. During his FBI career Grossman served undercover for over three years in Operation Greylord, the investigation of the Cook County judicial system that led to the conviction of 93 persons, including over 40 attorneys, 10 law enforcement officers and 15 corrupt Cook County judges, among them the chief judge of the First Municipal Division (Chicago courts). Following his undercover assignment, Grossman became the case agent for this investigation, directing the activities of approximately 15 other agents.
Later, Grossman supervised the FBI's public corruption squad, continuing the Greylord investigation as well as overseeing the Gambat investigation, which exposed the First Ward and its connection to organized crime. Among those convicted in Gambat were an alderman, a state senator and the chief judge of the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. In both Greylord and Gambat the FBI placed a microphone inside a judge's chambers. The placement of a microphone in a judge's chambers in Greylord was the first time this had ever been done.
While assigned to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Grossman worked as a supervisor in the Undercover Unit, reviewing, consulting on, and inspecting undercover operations nationwide. Prior to his retirement from the FBI, Grossman was appointed an Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Chicago Division, it's fourth largest field office. In that position he headed the Counterterrorism and Foreign Counterintelligence programs, and later, the Administrative section.
More recently, Grossman has worked in a variety of positions for the City of Chicago. As Chief Investigator at the Chicago Police Department's Office of Professional Standards, Grossman managed the investigations of allegations of excessive use of force by Chicago Police Officers and all police-involved shootings. Grossman left the Office of Professional Standards to join a team charged with addressing problems within the City's Department of Procurement Services.
As Managing Deputy for Certification and Compliance Grossman assisted in developing a program designed to identify companies, which obtained their Minority or Women-Owned Business Enterprise certification through fraud. As part of his responsibilities, Grossman helped to develop an investigative unit within the Department of Procurement Services. That unit has since been situated within the Inspector General's Office.
With the exception of stints in San Francisco, where he served as a Military Policeman and FBI assignments in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C., Grossman is a life-long Chicagoan. He is a graduate of the Chicago Public School system, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law. Grossman is a die-hard World Champion Chicago White Sox fan.