You’ve probably wondered at some point: If someone ran a background check on me, what would be in it?
Believe me when I say you would be shocked at what’s actually in these reports: I’m a private investigator whose agency performs hundreds of these background checks and asset searches every year.
The sheer amount of data in these reports is staggering: Many of them are a hundred pages or more.
Financial ignorance is when a partner knows nothing about the financial affairs of their own home. During a divorce, it can cost women everything.
In any divorce due to an affair, you’re going to see financial infidelity – the hiding of assets.
Our case of the week involves a woman in exactly this situation.
A few days ago, the Los Angeles Times reported that Irvine Police Department detectives had arrested three people in connection with an elaborate plot to defraud more than a dozen people for nearly a million dollars. As the case unfolds, there is no doubt this number will go even higher. The scheme was not elaborate,…
In 2012, Jerome Cahuzac, the then Budget Minister of France, was forced to leave the French cabinet after it was exposed that he had hidden assets in the form of millions that were stashed away in secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Singapore. It has recently been reported by many publications, including the Daily Mail,…
Over the years, we have discovered that people can be very inventive when it comes to hiding away their assets during a divorce or when filing for bankruptcy. There are many options available and people who want to safeguard their money will go to great lengths. In this post, I discuss the common types of…
A hospital in Illinois recently hired the private investigators at Martin Investigative Services to perform a theft investigation involving a fraudulent order for $3 million worth of computers. We found the money in a bank in Curacao and retrieved the funds and retrieved the money for the client.
In the case of a celebrity divorce, when two famous and powerful people in Hollywood go to war in court, each side has the money to hire multiple attorneys, private investigators, forensic accountants, and other experts. A few years ago, Martin Investigative Services was retained by a celebrity in this situation. When our client disregarded…
An asset search often means the difference between getting awarded and getting nothing. When a 1 million dollar judgement was awarded to our client in court, the defendant turned to the other side and said “pigs will fly before you actually collect any money from me”. Our private investigators performed an asset search and discovered…
Have you ever “Googled” yourself? Database searches for one’s own name with an Internet search engine in order to review the results may seem like an ego boost, but it is only a small fraction of the information publicly available about you. One of the easiest ways to gain a better perspective about what is…
