We recently came across a Huffington Post story about police in Richmond, Virginia using the dating website okcupid.com to make an arrest. A warrant was out for the arrest of Ryan Covington for failure to appear in court on a charge of breaking and entering into a vehicle. The officer in Virginia found Covington’s okcupid […]
We often blog here about how to find assets using public records and interviews. Sometimes we get more unorthodox requests from clients to help them find assets or just plain figure out the facts. For instance, a recent story that came out about the Judd sisters put GPS tracking devices on our mind. According to […]
The Wall Street Journal published an article this week about corporate acquirers demanding protections in mergers against undiscovered criminal acts. It got us thinking about some of the investigations we do during due diligence, and how a relatively inexpensive investigation can ultimately save corporations millions of dollars down the road. In an increasing number of […]
We wrote not too long ago here about our methodology for tracking down offshore accounts and how difficult and expensive this process can be. Well, it looks like locating offshore accounts may have just become a tiny bit easier. As reported in The New York Times, earlier this year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists […]
PROBLEM: The debtor, whose family lives in Brazil, claims to have no foreign investments. He mentioned years ago that his family had some rental properties in Sao Palo, but you have never seen them, and you don’t know exactly where they are located. You suspect that he may be a part owner. SOLUTIONS: The […]
According to several media reports, Latin superstar, Paulina Rubio has been accused by her ex-husband of concealing assets during their divorce proceedings earlier this year. The couple divorced in March and the pop-star reportedly agreed to pay ex-husband Nicolas Vallejo-Najera $6,750 a month for three years. Vallejo-Najera now claims, in Miami-Dade Family Court, that the […]
Now that 60 Minutes has apologized for airing a false eyewitness account of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, what can investigators, journalists and others who deal in facts learn from the incident, well summarized by the Columbia Journalism Review here? If something is as easily disprovable as the now-discredited claims CBS […]
Last week, a Tennessee judge fined Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, $70,000 in legal fees as punishment for bad behavior during his divorce. According to the judge’s decision, Mr. Winfrey used some fairly complicated maneuvers to avoid splitting the value of a barbershop he owned with his soon-to-be ex-wife while at the same time leaving […]
Edward Snowden continues to prompt discussion about how much secrecy is appropriate when it comes to national security – at least as far as the U.S. is concerned. His opinions on appropriate levels of secrecy in host nation Russia or previous host nation China will come later, we hope. A recent Slate article here, says […]
PROBLEM: For as long as you’ve known your debtor, he’s insisted on purchasing travelers checks before going on any vacation. You didn’t really see the need, but now you’re starting to wonder if he may actually have converted some of his funds into travelers checks to hide money from you. SOLUTIONS: Although travelers checks […]
Fill Out the Form Below and Get a
At Charles Griffin Intelligence, we keep your information confidential. We never share your email addresses with any third party and we never send unwanted emails to you. We are a company that will protect and safeguard the privacy of our clients.
Charles Griffin Intelligence was founded in 2009 by Philip Segal, a New York attorney and expert on complex domestic and international business and finance. Based in the heart of New York City and working worldwide, Charles Griffin is dedicated to ethical fact-finding.
©2025 All Rights Reserved. Charles Griffin Intelligence LLC.