The big guys have been going bankrupt, but the real carnage is yet to come:. Among America’s small businesses. Potential creditors need to get organized for the fight which appears to have been kicked off in New York this month with a fascinating case. We have seen the big names going down including JC Penney, […]
We always like to say that when we find out about a person, we do so without invading their privacy. That can still mean we find out a lot of things about them that they would rather keep secret, but those facts are derived from what we can legally look at: legal records, mortgages and […]
Imagine fighting this virus without the internet or electricity. The Covid-19 pandemic is one of two catastrophes we’ve read about from time to time over the past few years. The risk of a deadly virus has been discussed by the likes of Bill Gates and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Most of us read, and then hope […]
In honor of President’s Day (still officially known as Washington’s Birthday) a few thoughts about interviewing. There are so many more facts about ourselves that are in our heads (or the heads of people we know) than there are in databases and court cases. Many times, to get as much as the truth as we […]
A frequent problem when taking in a new asset search in divorce is figuring out how far back to look. Clients in divorce usually know a lot more about their spouse than anyone else, at least when it comes to daily habits, close friends, and other bits of information that can inform our asset search. […]
There is a widespread belief among lawyers and other professionals that investigators, armed only with special proprietary databases, can solve all kinds of problems other professionals cannot. While certain databases are a help, we often tell our clients that even if we gave them the output of all the databases our firm uses, they would […]
Half the time when someone calls our office about asset identification they tell us, “I need bank account information.” When told that without a court order there is nearly no legal way to get that kind of information from a bank without the account holder’s consent, many ask: “If it’s illegal, why did an investigator […]
We’ve written here many times about how tough (i.e. slow and expensive) it can be to track down overseas assets. In short, you need to be going after serious money to make it worthwhile, and you can often get clues to the location of offshore money right here in the U.S. That’s helpful if you […]
The New York Times published in interesting piece this week that was among its most popular: I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have. In it, the paper’s personal tech columnist Brian X. Chen explained how much information people can get about you with just your phone number. This includes “my current home […]
Not for the first time, the most compelling piece of information in an investigation is what isn’t there. We’ve written often before about the failure of databases and artificial intelligence to knit together output from various databases and I discussed the idea of what isn’t there in my book, The Art of Fact Investigation. Remember, […]
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