In an unusual move for a divorce case, a Queens judge added Benny Tal’s business partners as defendants in Benny’s divorce action because the three men had colluded to hide Benny’s assets from his wife Michal.  As Michal told the New York Post, “It’s like a dirty soap opera. There’s so much fraud going

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Grammy award winner Ne-Yo and several professional athletes are among those set to testify in federal court against the principals of Ohio-based sports drink company Imperial Integrative Health Research & Development. Preston Harrison and Thomas Jackson are charged with defrauding investors out of $9.5 million.

A London judge has ordered oil trader Michael Prest to pay his wife over $600,000 in support and alimony payments or face jail time.  Prest’s case gained attention last year for a landmark U.K. Supreme Court ruling permitting Yasmin Prest to pierce the corporate veil to reach assets that Michael had placed in trusts held

Last week, Curtis Harold DeBerry, owner of the Texas-based Progreso Produce Company, was arrested and accused of cheating investors, business partners and banks out of millions of dollars over the past few years.  He now faces up to 30 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint, DeBerry hid assets by transferring money

According to the New York Law Journal, yesterday, a Brooklyn jury convicted former Brooklyn prosecutor, John Headley, of fraud and misconduct over his misuse of New York City Transit Authority funds.  Headley’s company, Advance I.M.E. Co., was hired by the transit authority to obtain medical records and expert witnesses for the authority.  However, Headley

PROBLEM:

Debtors who own their own business can hide funds by cutting checks to a nonexistent employee or overpaying a current employee. Once creditors are no longer hunting for funds, the debtor simply voids the checks and pockets the money.

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SOLUTION:

If you have access to the debtor’s business records, then you can unravel