Tag: embezzlement investigations
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Discovery, Depositions and Findings
We had a Client, James who started and built a booming business with his longtime friend, Bill. Bill was outgoing, charismatic while James was more laid back and book smart, while both had the desire and knowledge to start a company. For years, growing up, through high school and college, they knew they wanted to…
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Is it Employee Embezzlement?
A very depressed-looking business owner came in for an appointment at . We are accustomed to clients or prospective clients arriving emotionally charged, either very angry or hurt, but they don’t usually act like this gentleman. Once talking, he explained that he was “darn near just ready to chuck it all in.” He said he…
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Protect Your Business from Theft in the Workplace
“I can’t believe I didn’t see it.” Riley had run his own business for years. He’d had hundreds of employees, some of which had stayed for years and retired from his company. So when his attorney brought him in, it was obvious he was both surprised and shocked that he could possibly be in this…
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Be ‘In the Know” in the Beginning Because Breaking Up is Hard Enough
Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme about the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead? There’s a line that says: When she was good, she was very, very good, when she was bad, she was awful! Aren’t most things like that? People are happy and excited and get married, or…
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Is Your Work Environment Cultivating Theft by Employees?
Objectivity is the cornerstone to a private investigator’s work – and success in doing that work. As we discuss here at offices, uncovering the truth is based on facts. We don’t make judgments other than those that help us follow-up or lead us to conclusions to further an investigation. Good investigators are keen observers and…
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Computer Forensics Uncovers Business Embezzlement
For more than a year, Sam and Julie worried about their future as business owners. For some unknown reason, their successful business now struggled financially. Sam spent long nights carefully studying line items on the budget with Steve, their business partner. It was difficult for Julie to finally speak up. But when they again worried…
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Is It Theft if the Money is Used to Improve the Budget?
With many budget cuts in the last few years, not-for-profit agencies have felt the sting. The workers in these agencies believe in their missions so they avoid extra spending. For example, the chairs at the free clinic still haven’t been replaced. At the shelter for victims of domestic violence, the roof has leaked for two…