Kroll Inc
Kroll is a global financial and risk advisory firm headquartered in New York, providing valuation, financial reporting, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, corporate restructuring, tax, and dispute resolution services to corporations and financial institutions across more than 30 countries.www.kroll.com
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Sep 16, 2026
IndieHOST
For example, it originally counted the former heads of the CIA and he-- and Homeland Security under George W. Bush among its advisors on determining what is, quote, unquote, "fake news" and what is not.
IndieHOST
One of their top advisor investors is the founder of Kroll Associates, often referred to as the, quote, unquote, "private CIA", Jules Kroll.
IndieHOST
Now with Pangram, NewsGuard is determining what is AI slop and what is not, and has used Pangram to launch a real-time AI content farm detection service.
IndieHOST
Oh boy, here we go.
Luke SteinfeldHOST
Yeah
David JacobsonGUEST
... and Nick Kroll, of course.
Luke SteinfeldHOST
Nick Kroll.
David JacobsonGUEST
And funny enough, that work-- when they worked out that show, that was Cherry Lane.
David JacobsonGUEST
They did the-
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Wyatt SarkissianHOST
I wasn't a m- I wasn't, like, a musical theater person, but, uh, you know, most of the people that I follow, they all were doing Broadway.
Wyatt SarkissianHOST
Like, you know, I was seeing Jake Gyllenhaal doing Broadway back in the day.
Wyatt SarkissianHOST
I mean, I've seen, you know, I got, saw, again, saw Mulaney and Kroll, uh, Neil Brandon do his show at Cherry Lane.
Robert WalshHOST
No, you were in charge of him.
Buck ReisingHOST
Kroll, did I make you do anything you didn't wanna do?
Robert WalshHOST
Yes.
KrollUNKNOWN
No, but you gave me the idea, and I ran with it.
Buck ReisingHOST
Damn.
Buck ReisingHOST
All right, we're gonna have to second-screen it because I don't imagine Titans-Eagles is gonna go too much better on Sunday when I'm sitting in a press box.
Robert WalshHOST
The Kroll troll.
Robert WalshHOST
No. [laughs]
Peter EyreHOST
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Peter EyreHOST
You can find more information at Kroll.com slash Fastest Five Minutes.
Peter EyreHOST
Thank you so much for joining us.
Nick NiemannGUEST
They have the right answer.
Nick NiemannGUEST
And I'm like, why is this not reflected in your report? They're like paid to be dumb because the incentive of rating agencies, especially when you have Kroll and Egan Jones come in, they got to get business, you know? So the fact that so much of our credit system is based on what a letter grade and these companies will move so slowly to upgrade or downgrade both directions.
Nick NiemannGUEST
It's a very inefficient system.
Teddy DowneyHOST
Yeah, it's almost like it's designed that way, right? Like to fail in some respects.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
Greenberg was also a vice chairman of the hugely influential Council on Foreign Relations, and he was on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, serving as its chairman in 1994-95.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
In 1993, Greenberg rescued a private security firm from bankruptcy, Kroll Associates.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
Later the same year, after the first World Trade Center bombing, the New York Port Authority awarded Kroll the contract to upgrade security at the Twin Towers, a contract that continued through the day of the attacks.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
The small detail that sharpened my focus was my recent discovery that Kroll, and this is something I might have known before, but it never really hit me, the implications, until recently.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
Kroll had a practice of hiring former Israeli military and Mossad agents to work for it.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
We need to let this sink in.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
I want the listeners to let this sink in.
Mark GaffneyGUEST
Understand what it means.
Eric RacheffHOST
Head of security.
Eric RacheffHOST
A New York firm called Kroll Associates recruited you specifically for it.
Eric RacheffHOST
Brought in to fix the gaps at a site that had already been hit once back in 1993.
Eric RacheffHOST
You tell a friend, Chris, all about it, almost proud.
Mark H. GaffneyGUEST
He had been on the board for many years.
Mark H. GaffneyGUEST
In 1993, a private security firm named Kroll Associates had gone bankrupt.
Mark H. GaffneyGUEST
He bailed them out and acquired that company.
Mark H. GaffneyGUEST
Soon after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Kroll Associates got the contract from the Port Authority to upgrade security at the Twin Towers and held the contract until the day of the attack.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Richard Sarratt's Strange Planet.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Following the truth wherever it leads.
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Mark H. GaffneyGUEST
He had been on the board for many years.
Mark H. GaffneyGUEST
In 1993, he paid off the mortgage.
Brent DoughertyHOST
anyway.
Brent DoughertyHOST
So Kroll wrote down Jets Collective on if this game is a Jets must win.
Brent DoughertyHOST
Ross said, I really need to play like the first five seconds of this.
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We can talk about solid all we want.
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Brent DoughertyHOST
When we come back, I have more from the New York Jets people.
Brent DoughertyHOST
Oh, come on, Yor.
Brent DoughertyHOST
Let's go, Ross and Kroll.
Brent DoughertyHOST
Let's go.
William RamseyHOST
It's crazy.
William RamseyHOST
I mean, you can talk about Kroll Associates and all these other kind of quasi-Intel national security companies that were there on site.
William RamseyHOST
So, yeah, that whole place was very strange.
William RamseyHOST
And Building 7 had all kinds of national security, what is it, kind of like FBI offices and things like that too, right?
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