Kenneth Cummins - NCISS 2010 Conference Speaker

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Kenneth Cummins - The Capitol Group
(Capitol Inquiry, Inc. and CII Title LLC)
1050 17th Street NW, Suite 910
Washington, D.C. 20036

Kenneth Cummins, president and founder of Capitol Inquiry investigations firm, is an award-winning former investigative reporter who worked in the national bureaus of several media organizations, including The Chicago Tribune. He covered the White House and Congress for 13 years, and has written for numerous national publications, including The Washington Post, Washington Monthly magazine, The New Republic, Reader's Digest, Playboy magazine and Penthouse. After moving from Kansas to Washington, D.C. in 1976, he investigated the CIA's behavioral and mind-control experiments for the critically acclaimed 1981 book, Search for the Manchurian Candidate, written by John Marks. Ken then set up the first-ever Washington bureau for the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union, Florida's oldest newspaper. He also is an alumni of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel's Washington bureau and States News Service in the nation's capital. During the early 1980s, Ken wrote an investigative series about cigarette additives more than a decade before this issue caught the attention of Congress and the national media.

Ken Cummins is also the creator of the Loose Lips column of politics and humor for The Washington City Paper. In 1986, Ken, as Loose Lips, christened D.C. Mayor Marion Barry ``Mayor for Life,'' which the former four-term D.C. mayor and now Ward 8 Councilmember continues to be known by today. Ken is a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.

In 1991, Ken founded Capitol Inquiry, and has been overseeing the growth and direction of the investigative firm for nearly two decades. Capitol Inquiry is a full-service private investigations firm serving government, private, corporate and legal clients locally, nationally and globally. The firm specializes in difficult, complex investigations;, locating and interviewing reluctant and hostile witnesses, and obtaining hard-to-get information. Capitol Inquiry's investigators provide investigative research support in criminal/civil background investigations, corporate/business intelligence investigations, litigation support, criminal defense, surveillance, process service (in-house servers), internal fraud investigations, computer forensics, real estate investigations and domestic/family disputes. The Capitol Inquiry team consists of experienced researchers with language capabilities in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Dutch and English.

In 2001, Ken founded CII Title, LLC to handle all real estate-related investigations previously handled by Capitol Inquiry, Inc. CII Title specializes in problem-solving, mortgage fraud investigations, abstracting and commercial and residential settlements in the District of Columbia and Maryland.