Tag Archive for: private investigation
Meta Searching Fake Royals and Other Facts
One of the best ways to learn how to detect fraud is to look at people who have been caught and then analyze what you could have done to avoid being taken in as others were. News from Germany here about a man jailed recently for rape and fraud…
How to Track Down and Value Stock Options
PROBLEM:
Your debtor tells you that everything she earned while she was married is reflected in her tax returns, but you remember her asking your advice on whether she should accept stock options instead of a raise a few years back. You can…
Finding and Valuing Stock in a Private Company
PROBLEM:
As part of a divorce settlement, the debtor offers you shares he owns in a private company, but he refuses to turn over the company’s financial information. Because the company is private, the value of its shares is not public…
When Do Investigations Invade Privacy?
What can facts can investigators gather without violating a person’s privacy? The answer we like to give is: whatever the law allows us to gather, but that doesn’t fully answer the question. For one thing, privacy means very different…
Privileges, Immunities, and Good Investigation
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…
When Go Turns to Stop in an Investigation
When does green not mean go? As toddlers we drive with our parents and learn that green means go, yellow means caution and red means stop. But then later on, in driving and in life, we learn that green means “go, as long as…”…
Due Diligence on Expert Witnesses: Assume the Worst
For expert witnesses, websites abound that help to connect a particular specialty with the trial attorneys who may need someone to speak about pediatric cardiology, warning labels, or the particulars of earthquake insurance. Fewer in number are the people who can sort through the experts' backgrounds.
Low-Cost Background Checks Ruin Lives
An enraging story by the Associated Press spells it out: computers used by background checkers mix up two people with the same name. Blameless woman gets tagged with a criminal record that isn’t hers, can’t get work and ends up homeless.…
