Terry Falk Lenzner (August 10, 1939 – April 23, 2020)[1] was an American attorney and founder of Investigative Group International.
[4] He then worked as an assistant U.S. attorney under Bob Morgenthau in the organized crime unit in New York before becoming the director of the federal office of Legal Services in the Richard Nixon administration.
[4] In 1971, he served on a team under U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark that defended the Harrisburg Seven and in 1973, under Samuel Dash, as the chief counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee.
Several former IGI employees have links to the Clinton administration including Ricki Seidman; Interior Department official Brooke Shearer (wife of Clinton's United States Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott); undersecretary of the Treasury Raymond W. Kelly, and Howard Shapiro, general counsel to the FBI.
[4] Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr subpoenaed Lenzner (along with Sidney Blumenthal) regarding allegations that his firm was paid to find negative information regarding Starr's team and possibly "obstructing justice"; after failing to demonstrate attorney–client privilege, Lenzner testified that his firm was doing "nothing inappropriate" with the research he was doing for Clinton.
[6] In 1993, he was hired by tobacco giant Brown & Williamson to investigate whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand,[6] however it was found that many of the allegations of misconduct in the dossier he produced appeared to be unsubstantiated or simply trivial.