If an investigator told you he could get you some cocaine or find you a way to conduct illegal business with North Korea, would you say “go ahead” simply based on the idea that it could be done?
We ask people this question fairly often when they ask us to get bank account information of
One of the most powerful tools a spouse had to monitor assets or other activities is to look at the shared computer of the spouse under investigation. We have written before in When You’re Allowed to Look Through Your Debtor’s Computers and Phones that as long as a person can show ownership of the computer,
Back in January, we posted a story about a Canadian investigative company whose owners, Michael Grontis, Cullen Johnson, and Elaine White, had fleeced their customers out of millions by promising to find assets hidden in offshore accounts. Instead, they created fraudulent bank records and passed them off as real. These crooked investigators’ work has surfaced
Revenge is a dish best served cold, so if you’re going to tape a spouse or significant other, be cool about how you do it.
Donald Sterling may yet hang on to his basketball team, and his (probably now former) girlfriend V. Stiviano may owe him $7.5 million in damages when this is all over.
PROBLEM:
You want to know what your debtor is hiding from you but you’re not sure if it’s okay for you to secretly look through your debtor’s phones and computers.
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SOLUTION:
Although privacy laws vary state by state, as a general rule, you should be more cautious than not in this territory. In New
San Francisco area divorce attorney Mary Nolan was sentenced last week to two years in federal prison on multiple felony charges, including illegal wiretapping and tax evasion. Her crimes included hiring private investigator Christopher Butler to use dirty tactics to gather incriminating evidence against her clients’ husbands.
At Nolan’s direction, Butler planted listening devices in
We recently came across a Huffington Post story about police in Richmond, Virginia using the dating website okcupid.com to make an arrest. A warrant was out for the arrest of Ryan Covington for failure to appear in court on a charge of breaking and entering into a vehicle. The officer in Virginia found Covington’s okcupid
We often blog here about how to find assets using public records and interviews. Sometimes we get more unorthodox requests from clients to help them find assets or just plain figure out the facts. For instance, a recent story that came out about the Judd sisters put GPS tracking devices on our mind.
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