Tag: private investigations
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Computer Forensics Investigations Reveal Truths – Wanted or Not
Computer forensics is not only used for criminal cases, but for civil cases as well. One illustrative case involved a worker who was placed on unpaid leave and then terminated. He filed a lawsuit against his employer alleging violations of the anti-retaliation provision of the False Claims Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act as…
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When do You Need a Hidden Asset Investigator?
Here at , we get asked a lot of questions about what we do and can do. Sometimes it is to help a specific client and sometimes it is just curiosity. Asset Investigation is an area that intrigues people and also an area so many people find themselves thinking they might need help. Hiding assets…
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When an Investigation Takes a Turn, Has the Experts
There is so much to say about employee theft and employee embezzlement investigations that it is difficult to sort it out into just one topic. And that’s what we find the clients of count on us for when they call. We are a one-stop service provider, we can provide whatever services are needed – here,…
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Confirm Employee Embezzlement with a Certified Financial Examiner
When an employer is faced with employee embezzlement, you might think that they just fire the person, or call the police and the insurance company. At the minimum, they call the insurance company if they have an employee fidelity policy. What you might not realize is that the insurance company might require proof that funds…
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Computer Forensic Investigations Are on the Rise
The use of computer forensics analysis is exploding. A recent video at Investigation.discovery.com provides a brief overview of what is possible, but it also shows that computer forensic investigation is not a do-it-yourself project – it takes a computer forensics specialist to root out the hidden bits of data that computer forensics experts know will…
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Computer Forensics and OTR Trucking
Computers are a part of every segment of our lives – from choosing a restaurant or moving and getting the route to get there on time to doing our work in an office, restaurant or on the road in our cars or vans. That is why computer forensics investigations are becoming more the norm than…
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Appropriate Legal Wording for Cell Records Requests Critical Time Saver
Can you image the amount of data collected by the phone companies? Not data on customers, but the data that is created by customers. They can store service records – but for only short periods – and once it’s gone, it’s gone. Because the service provider data is time sensitive, if an attorney or the…
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Computer Forensic Examination is Becoming Routine Part of Investigations
Computer forensics investigations are not just about catching individual employees or spouses or scammers doing wrong, a computer forensic examination can also be used to support the claims of whistleblowers. Just recently an article in which whistle-blowing employees of a big bank exposed a culture where they claim, “We were told to lie” and that…
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Forensic Cell Tower Evidence is Accurate Only with Complete and Complex Analysis
received a call from a defense attorney on the east coast regarding a cellular forensics report he had received from the prosecution that concluded that the forensic cellular evidence proved his client was in the area of the scene of a crime at the time the crime was committed. The prosecutor had no physical evidence…
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Full Service Investigators Bring It All to Insurance Fraud Cases
Part of the reason why insurance companies, attorneys and self-insured companies hire a private investigator like is because we can uncover the truth in a wide variety of situations. For example, in one case where a car was allegedly stolen and recovered completely burned out, the insurance company asked us to investigate the owner. The…