I was interviewed at length today for the #1 podcast on divorce planning, Divorce and Your Money. Among the detailed points covered: How asset searches work. How we take information from our clients. How investigation compliments legal discovery. Why Google searching is a good starting, but won’t do your thinking for you. “Asset” means “cash” […]
Clients come to us all the time with the suspicion that their spouse has stashed assets offshore. The problem is that they are not sure where. If there is one thing that is as difficult as getting money returned from an overseas location, it can be figuring out which overseas location we are even going […]
Step one: don’t have a manual. That’s the message in an information-packed new book about the inner workings of the SEC just after the Madoff and now largely forgotten (but just as egregious) Allen Stanford frauds. In his memoir of five years at the agency, former SEC Director of Investment Management Norm Champ (now back […]
What to do when the databases you rely on start stripping out the very data you are paying for? Word in today’s Wall Street Journal that the main credit reporting firms will be removing many civil judgments and tax liens from credit reports prompts us to restate one our core beliefs: Not only do databases […]
A fascinating interview with the chief fact checker for The New Yorker in the Columbia Journalism Review here got us thinking about the distinction between checking the veracity of facts and finding new ones. Our firm does both, dealing mostly with the former in due diligence and the latter with asset searches. The New Yorker’s […]
What will it take for artificial intelligence to surpass us humans? After the Oscars fiasco last night, it doesn’t look like much. As a person who thinks a lot about the power of human thought versus that of machines, what is striking is not that the mix-up of the Best Picture award was the product […]
There is a huge branch of the “fake news” business that gets no attention at all: the fake news consumed each day by corporate America that has nothing to do with politics, but everything to do with business – the bulk of the $18 trillion U.S. economy. We’ve been sorting through this kind of thing […]
A wonderful piece in the Wall Street Journal here called “The Logic of Our Fear of Flying” does a great job explaining our irrational fear of flying using concepts from math. We all know that our chances of dying in a plane crash are much lower than dying in a car accident, and yet many […]
If an investigator told you he could get you some cocaine or find you a way to conduct illegal business with North Korea, would you say “go ahead” simply based on the idea that it could be done? We ask people this question fairly often when they ask us to get bank account information of […]
A story in the Wall Street Journal Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products serves as a useful reminder for something we tell clients all the time: Google is there to make money, and if your ideal search result won’t make them money, you may get a less-than-useful result. Google is an indispensable […]
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