Thomas Martin: Guest on Through a Therapist’s Eyes Podcast Episode #84
Chris & Craig talk with Tom about divorce, cults, mass shootings, drugs, the opioid epidemic, terrorism & Tom’s experience with Charles Manson.
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Thomas Martin on Robb Jarett’s RobbCast Podcast
Former Federal Agent and Private Investigator Thomas Martin appeared as the guest on Episode 34 of Robb Jarrett’s RobbCast.
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The Quick Ten: 10 Entrepreneurial Questions
Private investigator and former federal agent Thomas Martin answers 10 entrepreneurial questions in a game called The Quick Ten.
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Thomas Martin on School for Startups Podcast with Jim Beach
Thomas G. Martin appears as a guest on the School for Startups Radio podcast to discuss what it’s like to own and operate a private investigative firm.
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Thomas Martin: Guest on Through a Therapist’s Eyes Podcast Episode #83
Private investigator Thomas Martin appears as the guest on the Through a Therapist’s Eyes Podcast to discuss the Human Sex Trafficking crisis.
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Thomas Martin Guest on The Heart Matters Podcast
Thomas G. Martin appeared as the guest on the podcast The Heart Matters with Life Coach Louis Morris. Listen to the full podcast here.
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The Daily Grind Podcast #500 (Thomas Martin)
Thomas G. Martin appeared as the guest of the 500th episode of the Daily Grind Podcast. You can listen to the full podcast here.
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Martin Special Guest on Water Cooler Talk Podcast
Special guest Thomas Martin joins Adam Schultz on the Water Cooler Talk Podcast to discuss protecting your online reputation from a stubborn ex, the costly impact of drug trafficking and how geofence data could change the future of law enforcement.
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Martin Interviewed by Law.com: PI for Attorneys
Thomas Martin was recently interviewed for an article in Law.com. The former federal agent said attorneys are his most frequent clients. “You either find the assets or you don’t. You either get the guy off for murder or you don’t. You either locate the person and do a background, or you don’t. There’s no gray area in our work.”
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Reconnection Club: Locate Your Adult Child
Thomas G. Martin appeared on the Reconnection Club’s Podcast to discuss how to find an adult child that you’ve lost touch with. The interview was released on March 9, 2020.
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Martin quoted in The Athletic: Drug use in the NHL
Thomas Martin of Martin Investigative Services was recently quoted in The Athletic, for an article about drug use in the NHL.
You can read the article here.
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Orange County Register: Martin on Tyler Skaggs & the DEA
Thomas G. Martin was quoted in a recent Orange County Register article regarding the late Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs and the DEA.
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Cheating spouse signs: Martin included in panel of experts
Self improvement web site UpJourney.com recently included us in a panel article called Warning Signs Your Partner Could Be Cheating, According to 8 Experts.
It’s an interesting array of experts, looking at the topic from multiple professional perspectives.
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How PI’s Catch Cheating Partners (PI Thomas Martin Radio Interview)
On June 10, 2019 I agreed to a requested interview from Dublin, Ireland’s radio station FM 104.
The interview was fast paced and conducted by radio hosts Cormac Moore and Saoirse Long.
The topic was “How Does A PI Catch A Cheating Partner.”
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Digital Guardian: Tips for Improving Board Communication Around Security
Martin Investigative Services was recently featured in an article for Digital Guardian.Thomas G. Martin was asked about his top tips for improving board communication around security.
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Mel Magazine: More on the Smishing Sex Scam
Last year we posted about the smishing scam from the boob-flashing girl who wants to hookup. Now we’re featured in this MEL Magazine article about the scam.
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Martin Investigative Services article in The Independent, The Sun, The New York Post
Martin Investigative Services is featured in this August 2, 2018 article in The Independent about cheating spouses.
The article was also picked up by The Sun, The New York Post & News.com.au.
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Martin featured in Easyriders Magazine article about strip club surveillance
Martin Investigative Services was recently featured in and article in the July 2018 issue of Easyriders, a motorcycle magazine for men. The article is about private investigation, surveillance and illegal hidden cameras with regard to strip clubs. You can read the article via the methods below:
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Rescue A CEO: How a book is good for business
Private investigator Thomas G. Martin explains why writing a book is good for business.
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Daily Tribune: Martin on investigating nursing homes
Private investigator Thomas G. Martin was recently featured in an article about the private investigation of senior living facilities.
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A&E: Martin interviewed about the Madeleine McCann case
Thomas Martin was interviewed by A&E about the unsolved, missing child case of Madeleine McCann – a case he believes suffered from too many cooks in this kitchen, and no head chef.
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Wired: Martin featured in smartphone article
Thomas G. Martin was recently featured in this article from Wired / Backchannel about smartphones, privacy and data collection. With just a smartphone number, Martin says, investigators and information brokers have a window into “private information that is stored by almost all business corporations, financial institutions and – thanks to us – social media networks… It is like looking into your living room of life.”
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PI Magazine: Thomas Martin on psychics
Thomas Martin was recently featured in the November/December issue of PI Magazine.
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Business Insurance: Social media posts flag comp fraud
Thomas Martin was recently interviewed for an article in Business Insurance magazine.
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HuffPost: Couple Uncovers Hidden Cameras In Nightmare Airbnb Stay
Private investigator Thomas Martin featured in an article from the HuffPost regarding the hidden cameras found in an Airbnb stay.
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Kiplinger’s: Interview
Thomas G. Martin was recently featured in the October 2017 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
The text from the article is transcribed here. You can also read the article online at Kiplinger’s web site at the link within this post.
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Thomas Martin interview for EmotionalAffair.org
Thomas G. Martin was recently inteviewed by EmotionalAffair.org, a web site that aims to help people “survive and thrive” after infidelity.
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Lifetime: Thomas Martin on 8 easy background checks before a date
“Predators know where to find prey,” says Thomas G. Martin, private investigator and former federal agent with the U.S. Department of Justice. “To a con artist, dating sites are a huge pool of potential marks putting themselves out there, looking for love [and] sometimes a little too willing to suspend disbelief and common sense.”
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Here’s how to protect your mobile phone
Keep your cell phone number to yourself. “The new Social Security number … is your cell number,” said Thomas Martin, president of Martin Investigative Services and author of “Seeing Life Through Private Eyes.” Your smartphone “is a gateway to your living room to your bedroom, to your life.”
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USA Today: With my cell-phone number, a private eye found 150 pages on me
I gave my cell number to private investigator Thomas Martin, a former federal agent and now president of Martin Investigative Services in Newport Beach, Calif., and asked him to do his thing. A few days later a three-pound, 150-plus-page dossier arrived at my front door via FedEx. Martin didn’t trust regular mail given the nature of what it contained, which was tons of my private information.
“We didn’t even scratch the surface,” Martin told me later. He also made a point of telling me that I was “cleaner than a Safeway chicken.”
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Voice of America: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Give Away Your Cellphone Number
Cellphone numbers are slowly becoming personal identifiers – a role all-important social security and national numbers have fulfilled for decades. But these mobile gateways to your life are left unprotected in an age of hacking, data mining, and sheer negligence.
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CBS San Diego News 8: Video: Thomas G. Martin
Many easily turn over their cellphone number to social media, retail and other companies without thinking twice.
Scary?
Yes it is – a person’s cellphone number is the new social security number, according to Thomas G. Martin, President of Martin Investigative Services and former agent with the Federal Department of Justice.
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USA Today: You’re sharing your cell phone number too frequently
No matter what Americans do to protect their digital privacy, especially on our handheld devices, it’s impossible to keep up with new threats. Now, there’s a new risk to our privacy and security: Our cell phone numbers are being used increasingly by information brokers as the window to personal information that’s kept by nearly all corporations, financial institutions, and, yes, social media networks.
Among those sounding the alarm bell is private investigator and former Drug Enforcement Agency agent Thomas Martin, who recently wrote a blog post titled, “Your cell phone number is your new Social Security number.” Martin’s message was clear: We are way too lackadaisical about keeping our numbers private.
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KMED AM 1440: Thomas G. Martin on The Bill Meyer Show
Thomas G. Martin’s May 31, 2017 appearance on The Bill Meyer Show on Oregon’s KMED AM 1440.
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Mississauga.com: Employee theft in Canadian businesses ‘is a pretty big deal’
The majority of crimes against businesses are committed by their own employees, according to a lead private investigator and former federal agent in the U.S.
Thomas Martin, president of Martin Investigative Services and author of the soon-to-be-released book, Seeing Life through Private Eyes: Secrets from America’s Top Investigator to Living Safer, Smarter, and Saner, said his company’s investigations show 75 per cent of workplaces with 100 employees or more are victimized by employee theft.
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KGO 1080: Thomas G. Martin on Consumer Talk with Michael Finney
Thomas G. Martin appears on Consumer Talk with Michael Finney on San Francisco’s KGO 810.
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Business Insanity Talk Radio: Financial ignorance & infidelity
Thomas G. Martin, founder of Martin Investigative Services, appeared on Business Insanity Talk Radio with Barry Moltz to discuss financial infidelity and financial ignorance, and what spouses can do to protect themselves from financial ignorance.
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WCRN 830 AM: Thomas G. Martin on All Politics Is Local
Thomas G. Martin appears on All Politics Is Local on WCRN 830 AM Radio in Boston to discuss the interview and interrogation process that possibly took place between FBI agents and Hillary Clinton, and the opioid problem in the United States.
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WBAP 820 AM: Thomas G. Martin on the Morning News
Thomas G. Martin appeared on The WBAP Morning News (WBAP 820 AM) to discuss his opinions on how the FBI would have interviewed Hillary Clinton.
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USA Radio Network: Thomas G. Martin on Trending Today
Thomas G. Martin appeared on Trending Today USA with Rusty Humphries on the USA RADIO NETWORK/IRN to discuss his opinions on how the FBI would have interviewed Hillary Clinton.
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KAAL-TV ABC 6 News: Thomas Martin on social media & law enforcement
Thomas G. Martin appeared on KAAL-TV ABC6 News on May 11, 2016 to discuss the role of social media in law enforcement.
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ABC News: San Diego Police Bust Alleged Crime Ring’s $15K Toy and Legos Theft
An alleged crime ring was busted this week in connection with what police say was the theft of $15,000 worth of toy loot, mostly Legos. “Legos are like gold,” Thomas Martin, who runs a private investigative service in southern California, told ABC News today. “Every child wants them; they last forever and are passed down through generations.”
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Collection of press stories about the Derek Seehausen case
Derek Seehausen is a 26-year-old medical student that went missing on or about August 5, 2014. This is a collection of articles regarding the case.
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Orange County Business Journal: 10 Ways Orange County Businesses Get Ripped Off Year After Year
Here are some of the most common cases my private investigation firm sees every single year. While most of these problems can be avoided or circumvented altogether, management is usually unaware that these are actually happening within their company.
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ABC News: Man Walks Out of Tiffany Store With Necklaces Worth $100,000
While organized retail crime has become a growing trend that vexes businesses, what appears to be an old-fashioned five-finger discount recently plagued the mother of all jewelry retailers, Tiffany & Co.
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Fox Business: Retail’s Worst Enemy: Its Own Employees?
It may be the most wonderful time of year for retailers, but it’s also a good time for workers who want to steal from them.
Employee theft has been known to pick up during the holiday hustle and bustle – and with the labor market on the rocks and cash-strapped Americans bracing for the fiscal cliff, retailers across the country could see more of it this holiday season than ever.
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ABC News: Thieves Eye Luxury Goods During Holiday Season
Shoppers are not the only ones looking for things to buy during the holiday season; thieves are on the hunt too. Police say people are out to re-sell luxury stolen goods or to enjoy them for personal use.
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Five Tips to Combat Employee Theft
Companies around the world are at risk of losing up to $3.5 trillion each year from occupation fraud and theft.
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Thomas Martin on KFWB News Talk 980
Thomas G. Martin appeared on KFWB News Talk 980 in November of 2012 to discuss the rising trend of employee theft.
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Thomas Martin on Privacy Piracy with Mari Frank
Thomas Martin’s guest appearance on Privacy Piracy. Topics include electronic surveillance, employee theft and more.
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Thomas Martin on AM830: The Business Experience Show
Former Federal agent Thomas Martin, owner of Martin Investigative Services, discusses the cloak & dagger business side of running a private investigation outfit.
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Press from the Mark Anderson case
This page has a collection of press pieces about an investigation by Martin Investigative Services regarding missing comedy club owner Mark Anderson. Sadly, after being missing for more than three weeks, Mark Anderson was discovered dead in in Buckeye Park, Arizona on June 6, 2012.
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Dos and don’ts: Electronic surveillance evidence
In the pursuit of gaining an advantage, divorcing spouses and executives might be persuaded by an unethical private investigator to embed illegal listening and video devices into opponent’s phone lines or in their boardrooms and bedrooms.
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Former Federal Agents Can Help Solve Retailers’ Employee Theft Problems
The problem of employee theft is motivated by an ever-growing sense of entitlement, as well as a blatant disrespect for the employer and the law.
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Missing in action: Bad economy fuels rise in employee theft
It happens at virtually every business.
Sometimes it’s nothing more than a missing stapler or a box of paperclips – items many employers would assume have been misplaced.
But employee theft can ramp up quickly.
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Adventures in Private Investigating
Like most retired federal agents, Thomas Martin wears a navy blue suit.
“It’s what we sleep in,” he says.
Old habits can die hard and after a career as an agent, the crisp suit is just one throwback. The other is salty vocabulary that I can tell he’s doing his best to restrain.
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Orange County Register: O.C. firms cope with soaring gas prices
Thomas G. Martin quoted on the rising price of gasoline.
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Seasonal Surveillance: Cheating Hearts
Private investigators are staffing up for a predictable February ritual: a spike in snooping. When it comes to marital surveillances, Valentine’s Day remains the private eye payday of the year.
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Somebody’s Watching You
The struggling economy has created yet one more problem for business owners: skyrocketing employee theft.
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Orange County Register: Economy’s clouds have silver linings
In these recession times, people do bad things. About 80% of employees are currently stealing something. They steal time, product or money from their employers who then call us to (find) the bad guys.
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Office bash may reveal an affair
Stats on cheating can seem overwhelming, so we looked to Thomas Martin, a former FBI agent and president of Martin Investigative Services, a California private investigative service. With 38 years under his belt, Martin could write a book. So he did, online at investigatorconfidential.com. An entire chapter is about determining if your partner is cheating.
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Orange County Register: Job losses have O.C. impact beyond layoffs
In these recession times, people do bad things. They steal time, product or money from their employers who then call us to fret out the bad guys. Most security experts agree that about 80% of employees are currently stealing something.
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Has technology turned us into voyeurs?
Thomas Martin, known as “America’s PI” says, “Snooping through a friend or mate’s stuff now accounts for client’s initiating 38 per cent of our marital-type surveillances. We have done over 34,000 surveillances; 80 per cent of our clients are women, 20 per cent men. We catch 97 per cent of the people we follow.”
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Orange County Register: Private eye shares ‘best O.C. businesses’ list
For more 30 years, Newport Beach private investigator Thomas Martin, head of Martin Investigations has been keeping a private list of the best attorneys in various specialties. Martin has now published his list of top, trusted Orange County businesses on his Web site. He still doesn’t share all his attorney resources.
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Fox 11 News: Thomas Martin
Private investigators from Martin Investigative Services were hired to perform an investigation in Newport Beach, California. The results of the investigation led to the arrest of a well known magazine photographer.
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Press from the Jason Ellis case
A collection of articles about a recent investigation by Martin Investigative Services which led to the arrest of a famous magazine photographer.
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Why Do Spouses Cheat?
Thomas Martin, president of Martin Investigative Services, says his 38 years as a private investigator has given him a birds eye view of affairs and cheating spouses.
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The Wall Street Journal: One Tough Day for Two-Timers
One of Mr. Martin’s Valentine’s Day clients is a doctor whose wife, also a doctor, aroused his suspicions when she told him she would be changing her regular daytime shift on Tuesday and instead working until 8 p.m. Like virtually all private detectives, Mr. Martin won’t reveal his client’s names.
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Orange County Register: Cheating spouses, look out for the P.I.
Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to catch lovers in the act of illicit romance.
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Los Angeles Times: Few Clues, Fewer Answers
In the nearly four months since Cal Poly Pomona student Christina Burmeister, 20, was slain, her family has waited for a breakthrough in the perplexing case.
None has come, so the Cerritos family has hired private investigator Thomas Martin, president of Martin Investigative Services in Anaheim.
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Orange County Register: Investigator helps families find missing members
A good chunk of Thomas G. Martin’s 60-hour or so workweek is spent tracking down people.
The former federal agent turned private investigator figures he’s searched for hundreds of missing relatives since he started Martin Investigative Services in 1981.
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CBS Los Angeles: Cheating on Your Spouse on Valentine’s Day
Private investigator Thomas G. Martin discusses how he catches cheating spouses on Valentine’s Day.
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“If You Only Knew,” Warns Orange County PI
He might not be able to tell you exactly what happened to Amelia Earhart or why Amy Johnson’s plane went down in the Thames Estuary, but Thomas G. Martin has helped many with slightly less complicated cases.
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KUSI News: How & When to Do Your Own Investigation
Former supervisory Federal agent Thomas G. Martin, owner of Martin Investigative Services, appears on KUSI News to discuss private investigation, surveillance, nannys, personal protection, divorce issues, fraud and other scams.
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Orange County Register: On the Job: Thomas G. Martin
What’s a typical day like?
A typical day for me can be spent dealing with locating friends and family, performing surveillance on cheating spouses, providing advice on personal and corporate security or investigating on artist and business scams.
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Los Angeles Times: Book Him: P.I. Wrestles to Put Experiences Into Words
Not everybody needs an attorney or thinks their mate is cheating on them. I’m hoping that people will read the three or four chapters that pertain to them at this particular point in their lives.
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Private investigator sheds light on security measures in new book
Private investigator Tom Martin is based in Southern California, but his work frequently brings him to Las Vegas.
“We get hired by people who get hurt coming in on I-15, or people who get hurt in the hotels,” said Martin, 50. Sometimes, he mentions, he is hired by the party who gets sued by a deceptive person just claiming to be hurt.
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Los Angeles Times: Just for Today, a Couple of Love Stories
Romance: Anaheim private eye offers his services to track down old flames that still flicker.
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Orange County Register: Torn Apart: Tom Martin
If we lost our innocence on a Dallas street corner in 1963, our invincibility in the jungles of Vietnam, did we lose our sense of security in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building on April 19? The bombing in Oklahoma City focused our attention on our own safety, in a county where a talk show host can exhort listeners to shoot for a Federal agent’s head.
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Orange County Register: Near Miss For Local Investigator
Tom Martin was on a Tokyo subway when poison gas struck down passengers in five underground trains, killing 10 people and injuring nearly 5,000, including scores who remained critically ill. The closest train was a block from the one carrying Martin.
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Orange County Register: Watchful Eye
Now retired as a Drug Enforcement agent, private investigator Thomas Martin chases down ex-husbands, finds telephone bugs and helps overturn convictions of what turned out to be innocent victims.
Martin, owner of Martin Investigative Services of Orange, was the first Federal drug enforcement agent to receive 100 percent pure heroin during a sting operation. The 4 year-old son of a Mexican Mafia member delivered the drugs.
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Orange County Register: Firms stake their claim in fraud fight
From policies to private eyes, workers’ comp tightens up.
After two suspicious workers’ compensation claims doubled Daniel Di Giacomo’s insurance rates, he decided to act.
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Los Angeles Times: Forensic Accountants Uncook Bogus Books
Michael L. Mann was a rising star in the Long Beach office of a manufacturer of underground storage tanks.
People who knew Mann told investigators that he was a hard worker who had risen through the company’s ranks to become executive vice president in charge of daily operations.
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Los Angeles Times: Q&A with Thomas G. Martin
The new haircut and polished shoes of today’s job applicant may be hiding a past of thievery and folly. Thomas G. Martin, founder of Martin Investigative Services, helps employers find that out before they hire.
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Orange County Register: Up Close: Thomas G. Martin
A private investigator highly regarded and widely used by attorneys and other clients in Orange County and nationwide, Thomas G. Martin recently appeared on “A Current Affair” and has appeared on other television programs. Martin and his team of investigators sleuth a wide variety of cases, including civil and criminal, background check, surveillance, and missing persons. Before founding Martin Investigative Services in Tustin in 1981, he was a Federal narcotics agent.
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Los Angeles Times: Wife Revokes Bail; Man Jailed
After standing by her husband, Joseph (Mac) Duffy, the reputed con man charged with swindling women out of their savings to lead a life of luxury, Sylvianne Lestringant had his bail revoked so she could use the money for an investment, her private investigator said Thursday.
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Orange County Register: Exterminator: Investigator turns from drugs to bugs
Investigator turns from drugs to bugs to keep board room safe for business.
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Los Angeles Times: Students get the message
Janet Evans didn’t have to mention the word “drugs.”
When the three-time Olympic gold medal swimmer appeared Tuesday at the William Lyon School in Orange, where most students come from families in which abuse, neglect and drug use are common, all she had to do was talk about being disciplined.
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Orange County Register: Want to keep business private? Conduct negotiations on a beach
The American Embassy in Moscow isn’t the only place where it’s difficult to hold a private conversation.
According to a local private investigator and former Justice Department official, the business world is also vulnerable to electronic eavesdropping.
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