Tactical Rabbit

Founded	2012
Founder	Everett Stern
Headquarters	Philadelphia, PA
Locations	8
Website	https://tacticalrabbit.com/

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Tactical Rabbit is a private advocacy firm and solutions agency based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company uncovers and analyzes information that is useful for government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and special advocacy groups.

History

The company was founded in 2012 by Everett Stern, a former U.S. Senate Candidate, HSBC Whistleblower, and Hedge Fund Manager. Everett Stern is also featured on Netflix’s True Crime Series, “Dirty Money”. The segment in Season 1 Episode 4 sheds light on the events of Everett Stern’s uncovering of the fraudulent and dangerous activity that HSBC was committing. Stern was also in a Rolling Stone article, Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail, this article reflects on the transactions that HSBC committed with terrorist-friendly organizations, leading up to Stern being hired and the events he undertook to reveal the money-laundering HSBC was committing.

Public Exposure

In late 2013, multiple media outlets reported that telecom giant Sprint Corp. and its parent company Softbank were trying to buy a majority stake in phone carrier T-Mobile. An interested telecom investor asked Tactical Rabbit to investigate, to learn if the multi-billion-dollar merger would be approved. Commenting on the merger in a public report in June 2014, CEO Everett Stern stated, “I don’t believe that the Department of Justice will approve the deal.” Working closely with former CIA and FBI investigators, Tactical Rabbit built a behavioral profile of the CEOs of Sprint and T-Mobile. Tactical Rabbit determined early on that the deal would fall through or fail to be approved. Just two months after the Tactical Rabbit report went live, the New York Times reported that Sprint had abandoned its bid to acquire T-Mobile, “after conceding that antitrust regulators would block a deal in an industry that is dominated by just a few large players.”

In 2014, Tactical Rabbit was informed that an officer in the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Florida had been posting offensive comments online. The deputy, Jason Van Dusen, had been using his personal Facebook account to post disturbing comments and images. Based on the preliminary findings alone, Tactical Rabbit alerted Van Dusen’s superiors at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office, and the supervisors placed Van Dusen on administrative leave for two days. After further research with a contact who once worked for the CIA and National Security Agency, Tactical Rabbit was able to uncover a Twitter account. By analyzing more than 6,000 tweets and cross-referencing them with police activity logs, Tactical Rabbit was able to establish that Van Dusen had written many of his tweets while on duty, from his county-owned vehicle. The information was dismissed once again, so Tactical Rabbit got the media involved, and CBS News in West Palm Beach and other outlets ran stories. Finally, in June 2018, The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office fired deputy Van Dusen for a series of offensive social media posts dating back to 2013.

In 2014, Tactical Rabbit’s mission was to uncover, analyze and go public with highly-sensitive information. The firm performed all three services during an investigation of an Arizona-based company named LifeLock. The company promised “complete protection” against ID thieves, an impossible promise to keep. In one of the advertisements, it is shown that in one of the ads the LifeLock CEO is revealing his social security number on the side of a truck and challenged anyone to steal his identity. Thirteen people were able to do so. Tactical Rabbit got involved with another claim by LifeLock. The company stated that they would pay any customer $1 million if their identity was stolen. Tactical Rabbit forensic investigators read through the paperwork of these promises and discovered that the customers would never receive any monetary reward. Instead, the money would be used to hire lawyers who would attempt to make the customer whole. Tactical Rabbit took its findings to the FBI, law enforcement agencies and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2015, the FTC returned to LifeLock’s headquarters. LifeLock would be forced to pay $100 million to settle charges that it had failed to properly protect its customers’ data.

In 2014, Tactical Rabbit began to better understand a group called “Students for Justice in Palestine.” Watchdog groups have been following them since 2011. They had described it as a “radical student organization” that had “campaigned for divestment from Israel, which it categorizes as an apartheid state.” Tactical Rabbit got to work, conducting deep research on the organization and its leaders. In his interview on MidPoint, Everett Stern states, "80 chapters throughout the United States, all throughout college campuses...a domestic terrorist organization, not a student-run organization. Their statements against Jewish students and Christian students is appalling, and they are terrorizing students on campus." Through open-source research, HUMINT intelligence gathering and other CIA-based intelligence methodologies, the final report concluded, “Tactical Rabbit has a high degree of confidence that SJP is funding terrorism, and specifically Hamas. Tactical Rabbit believes these Islamic charity organizations are in violation of” a wide variety of federal laws. The United States has listed Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization since 1997.

In 2015, Tactical Rabbit launched an investigation against Sweet Briar College. The school grabbed national headlines when School President James F. Jones, Jr., made the sudden announcement that the school would have to permanently close for good that summer. The school’s senior leaders and Board of Trustees attributed the imminent closing to “insurmountable financial challenges.” Tactical Rabbit’s intelligence operatives closely examined the college’s finances. Sweet Briar had a substantial $84 million endowment and was experiencing only a small decline in student enrollment. On the surface, it was a mystery. Tactical Rabbit launched an in-depth intelligence operation and examined hundreds of school documents. What they found was disturbing. In a May 2015 letter to the FBI Director, Everett Stern wrote, “The due diligence process yielded disturbing results indicating that [two senior school administrators worked together] with the intention of dissolving the college without advance good faith notification to the Sweet Briar community.” Tactical Rabbit’s efforts to expose the alleged fraud committed by senior school officials undoubtedly helped seal their fates. Top school leaders were fired, and many Board members were forced to resign. More than three years later, Sweet Briar’s financial picture continues to improve. Student enrollment is up more than 40 percent, and the school is thriving.

External links

• Official Website

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