UK lawmakers recently unveiled a new plan to fight domestic and international corruption within its borders. From the perspective of investigators tasked with uncovering hidden assets, the most striking piece of this legislation is the plan’s proposed establishment of a central register of beneficial owners of companies. The plan would also make it a crime […]
Due diligence is all about following up on red flags, but if you don’t find them, there’s nothing on which to follow up. Thus, our tireless refrain: turn over every piece of public record information you can about a person, and don’t leave it to others. We were reminded of this by the story this […]
Bribing foreign public officials used to be legal in the entire developed world. It was first outlawed by the U.S. by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977, but this law was never robustly enforced until about 2005. As for the rest of the developed world, it wasn’t until 1999 that the OECD agreed on […]
We’ve heard of people stowing money beneath the mattress and under floorboards before, but we recently came across this article about the family of convicted Ponzi-schemer Ron Wilson hiding Wilson’s money for him in ammunition canisters. That’s a new hiding spot for us. Wilson’s brother, Tim, and estranged wife, Cassie, pleaded guilty last month to […]
According to the Sacramento Bee, a would-be movie studio executive, Carissa Carpenter, pleaded not guilty last week to defrauding investors of at least $5 million during her failed 17-year attempt at creating a movie studio in Northern California. Over the 17-year period, she shifted the location of her planned studio several times. Her last purported […]
The big heavy breathing lead story in the Sunday New York Times this week was about the increasing number of government agencies using undercover operations to detect law breakers of all kinds. The Small Business Administration, the IRS, even the U.S. Supreme Court Police have agents hiding badges, blending into crowds and perhaps using assumed […]
You wouldn’t think old bankruptcies are a place worth checking when hunting for assets. If someone’s bankrupt, it means they are essentially out of money, right? Wrong, at least sometimes. We have found all kinds of wonderful material when looking at bankruptcies. Some of it leads right to assets, and some leads to a non-financial […]
We recently blogged here about surprising facts we’d found when doing diligence on expert witnesses. We’ve looked into so many people and companies that we’re rarely taken aback when we find that someone left something off of a resume or lied about a degree. But sometimes we come across a news story that manages to […]
In a country in which people can form a company in minutes over the internet, it’s amazing to us how many asset searches proceed on the basis that you only need to look for property owned directly by a person. So often, we find that someone can truthfully state at a deposition that he owns […]
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 […]
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