When not at work, I like to do many things, and one of my favorites is to watch New York Mets baseball. Since moving to New York I’ve grown to love the team and I make common cause with the many Mets fans I run into (even in my Bronx neighborhood just a few stops […]
When people come to us for financial investigations, it’s rare that the information they are seeking is right out in the open. But sometimes, the values are not very far under the surface. When the hints are there, it can be a matter of simple arithmetic to figure out the answer. Other times, you can […]
Many of us love optical illusions. It’s a safe thrill to know we’re being tricked, and yet are still unable to tell our brains to “get real” and stop the illusion. When you’re doing an investigation, the same kind of thing can take over your brain: You want to look at facts in one way, […]
We Found $60 Million in two hours, and our client wasn’t happy. Sometimes looking for assets is like hunting for buried treasure. Other times, there’s a pot of gold under such a light dusting of soil that you can spot it in an hour or two. That’s the way it works with securities records (covering […]
Where do you start in deciding which investigator to hire for a sensitive job? It should be a business of trust, just as it is when choosing someone to come up with an estate plan, to sue a former business partner, or to handle a complex tax situation. Despite the seriousness of the question, some […]
Specializing in financial investigations as we do, I am always fascinated when new financial frauds come to light, and I always want to know how the person got caught. In the case of the recent Yale School of Medicine fraud in which an administrator took more than $40 million in fake computer purchases (desbribed in […]
A client came to us and asked us to look for assets owned by her husband. They were going to get divorced and she needed to know what he had. In briefing us, she told us that she didn’t know much, but one thing she was certain of was that a piece of property she […]
I’ve done a lot of interviews about people over the years, but you can always get better. A fascinating conversation last week with an angel investor about what he looks for in a candidate to run a new company gave me a question I will always ask from now on, but not just about people […]
Everyone would love to have more information, but getting information is not always free. At what point does it become too expensive to pay for more? We get this question a lot, especially when divorcing parties call us directly about our asset search services. Firstly, before you file for divorce there are lots of things […]
Due diligence is about trying to look around corners. Not only do you look backward at a person’s history, but you also want to try to anticipate potential problems for the client if they hire Mr. X. or go into business in Country Y. Country Y for the purposes of this blog today is Canada. […]
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