We write (and tell our clients) consistently about how difficult it is to obtain the bank account information of litigation opponents without first getting a court order. There are people out there who will charge you to trick banks into divulging this information, but they break the law when they do this. If you are […]
We are asked all the time to get into the bank account records of the other side in divorce and other matters. As we’ve written many times, most recently here and various entries here, without a court order you can’t make a bank hand over the other side’s banking details. It’s not just that it […]
Spokeo and other low-cost or free information sites on the web spew out a lot of garbage, and that can do a lot of harm. This blog takes no position on whether a private right of action exists under the Fair Credit Reporting Act even when no concrete harm can be demonstrated from bad information […]
It happens at least twice a month: someone calls our office and asks us to obtain bank account information for another person – usually an estranged spouse. We reply that without a court order, we are not entitled to know the account number, balance or transactions history of anyone’s account without the account holder’s permission. […]
One of the core principles of good investigation is to assume nothing and start looking from scratch. We have found a lot of money over the years hiding in plain sight: in new companies named after old companies in neighboring states, or even in places mentioned in emails left lying around the house. Liberian corporations, […]
Ban the Box isn’t going away, and companies need a strategy to protect themselves. The movement in the U.S. to restrict the kind of information employers can look for in making a hiring decision gathers momentum, this time in New York City. It’s known as Ban the Box because the list of boxes applicants need […]
We’ve written plenty before about Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten,” under which governments tell Google and other search engines to take down links to legal, public documents that are deemed embarrassing or inconvenient for the people involved. We thought four years ago that this problem wouldn’t go away, and we were right. We never took […]
One of the most fruitful avenues of investigation is to look at material that nobody ever thought would harm them. That’s the kind of material people do not take great pains to hide. Why hide it when it won’t hurt you and there is so much else in the world to worry about? Trusts set […]
In a dramatic divorce case unfolding in Southern California this week, Hydee Feldstein, a retired partner at a large law firm, accused her ex-husband Peter Gregora of stealing $20 million of the couple’s money over the course of their marriage. Feldstein claims Gregora hid the money in secret offshore companies, investment funds, and, in by […]
These are still early days for the scandal engulfing world soccer, but in the indictments and other stories emerging we see three distinct features crucial for most successful investigations. We have written about all of them, but rarely are they captured so well in one single story so famously told as the one about FIFA. […]
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