PROBLEM: To make himself appear cash-poor, the debtor, a small business owner, increases his business’s discretionary expenditures knowing that he can recoup the money after the divorce is final. [light] SOLUTION: This problem can take several forms such as overpaying employees, as we discussed here, buying expensive merchandise with the intent of returning it later, […]
PROBLEM: You think that your debtor owns property, but you cannot find any evidence that he owns any real estate in his own name. You suspect that he purchased property through a corporation so that you would not be able to find it. [light] SOLUTIONS: If you do not know the name of the debtor’s […]
PROBLEM: A debtor hit it big in a poker tournament and promptly squirreled away the prize money. Now, when the creditor asks about the winnings, the debtor’s response is, “Poker? Sure, I play for fun, but I’ve never won any real money at it.” [light] SOLUTIONS: Like lottery winnings, which we wrote about here, all […]
Last week, the Associated Press reported that the Department of Justice had obtained confidential phone records for more than 20 telephone lines used by the staff of the Associated Press while investigating leaks of classified information. Only days later, news surfaced that the DOJ had also accessed the phone records and emails of James Rosen, […]
PROBLEM: You suspect that your spouse has secretly hidden money by purchasing a life insurance policy that he plans to cash in once the divorce is final. [light] SOLUTION: The first step is to look for any evidence of payments to insurance companies. If you have access to financial records, check for automatic bill payments […]
PROBLEM: A debtor may say he has no assets when he actually owns an art collection worth millions. Or, in anticipation of a divorce, a debtor may convert ready cash or easily-discoverable assets into art, which can be safely stashed away until after a settlement is reached. [light] SOLUTION: Art, like some of the other […]
If we had five dollars for every time someone asked us to get hold of someone’s bank accounts (pretty much always against the law and therefore off-limits), we would have enough money to buy a lovely lunch for two. Sometimes, people who call us perk up when we inform them that non-profit organizations in the […]
PROBLEM: The debtor doesn’t have it yet, but is expecting a major payment when a class action suit settles and he comes into more than $100,000. However, he is not the lead plaintiff and his name doesn’t appear anywhere you can see as it would on other kinds of litigation. [light] SOLUTION: Among the hardest […]
PROBLEM: The debtor shows you some accounts from his business, and business is bad. However, that is because he is putting off booking income this year to make himself look worse-off financially than he is. Once the divorce is final, all that income that should have been booked this year will come rolling in. [light] […]
What does the Supreme Court’s decision this week about the Privileges and Immunities Clause mean to investigators? That they need to continue having a good national network to help one another. The Court this week upheld unanimously a Virginia law that grants the right to see documents under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), […]
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