Where do you start in deciding which investigator to hire for a sensitive job?
It should be a business of trust, just as it is when choosing someone to come up with an estate plan, to sue a former business partner, or to handle a complex tax situation. Despite the
After years in business, one of my biggest marketing challenges is still explaining to potential clients why an investigator can’t just use a few mysterious databases and “deep Googling,” as one hopeful person described it, and produce an answer in an hour or two.
Someone’s well-hidden assets? The eight-month job in 1998 that ended badly
While clients who ought to know better frequently ask us to get banking and cell phone records, a request for a medical record is far more rare.
All three are illegal for us to obtain without a court order by federal statute in nearly any circumstance, as we’ve written about many times on the privacy
If anyone wondered what the practical side of Europe’s new Right to be Forgotten would turn out to be, here it is:
In less than a month since a court in the E.U. decided Google links were substantial information and could be scrubbed at the will of a judge, Google has received 40,000 requests to
Juliet Bickford, a Virginia news anchor, pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud and money laundering charges on Wednesday in connection with an international fraud scheme orchestrated by her private investigator boyfriend, Theodoros Grontis.
Court Documents allege that Grontis, who ran an investigation company called “Internal Affairs” with a former Toronto police detective and his wife
There has been no end of snobbery over the years that makes fun of the conservatism of golf: so much space to serve so few athletes, the cost to the environment, the exclusivity of the private clubs, and so on.
But this fascinating New York Times article made clear to me that in one respect
Why is it that we would never decide to put $100,000 in the bank and tell people our deposits are “in the cloud,” but we readily do so with data that could be worth many times more than that?
This week’s drama in Cyprus, in which a lot of people have seen their money vaporized
What’s the difference between a forensic audit and a regular audit? We think we know the difference when we see it, but what is it? The issue came up before a short talk I was giving to some accountants last week, and the answer was relevant to our fact-finding business.
A regular audit is not