It happens at least twice a month: someone calls our office and asks us to obtain bank account information for another person – usually an estranged spouse.
We reply that without a court order, we are not entitled to know the account number, balance or transactions history of anyone’s account without the account holder’s permission.
In a dramatic divorce case unfolding in Southern California this week, Hydee Feldstein, a retired partner at a large law firm, accused her ex-husband Peter Gregora of stealing $20 million of the couple’s money over the course of their marriage. Feldstein claims Gregora hid the money in secret offshore companies, investment funds, and, in by
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.
We usually blog here about how to find hidden assets in the context of a divorce, however, we recently came across a story that serves to caution those entering a marriage not to relinquish all control over the family finances.
According to media reports, accused fraudster, Steven Wessel, is currently trying to seek a
According to media reports, Former Apple CEO John Sculley is currently being sued by his ex-wife, of 32 years, Carol “Leezy” Sculley, for allegedly hiding more than $25 million in assets from her at the time of their divorce. Sculley and Leezy settled their divorce in 2011, but Leezy claims that Sculley hid more
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 o
ver the past few years. He now faces up to 30 years in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, DeBerry hid assets by transferring money
It’s everyone’s favorite or least favorite day of the year—tax day. While some people are rejoicing about their anticipated refund check, others are reluctantly handing money over to the government. Here, we’re thinking about the wealth of infor
mation tax returns hold and how we regularly use them in our asset searches.
We often blog
PROBLEM:
You know you’ve heard your debtor tell friends that some of his best investments were in commodity futures contracts, but you have no way of knowing just how much money he has invested in them.
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SOLUTION:
We’ve blogged before here about tracking down your debtor’s investments in the stock market, but you’re right
We wrote not too long ago here about our methodology for tracking down offshore accounts and how difficult and expensive this process can be. Well, it looks like locating offshore accounts may have just become a tiny bit easier.
As reported in The New York Times, earlier this year, the International Consortium of Investigative
We get asked all the time to figure out how much money a person may be hiding offshore. Usually, it’s not as straightforward as the recent guilty plea by Ty Warner, the founder of Beanie Babies, who admitted to using a secret Swiss account to avoid paying tax on income of more than $3.1 million.