Recently, we have been working with two business owners regarding what they believed were sealed or expunged criminal records. These cases had very different outcomes. In the first scenario, a financial institution scrutinized a business owner when he applied for a significant loan. A background check was conducted as part of the evaluation process, and […]
There is a bizarre phenomenon in the due diligence background investigation space: lying or omitting information on a background check questionnaire. In this post, we lay out how a private equity firm …
There’s really only one real reason you shouldn’t be doing bank searches: They are not legal, except in the tiny fraction of cases when they are. Sure, there may be some ethical grey areas …
Dozens of websites offer background checks for a few dollars. And if you haven’t had the pleasure, you can google “background check” and get ready to be bombarded. Go ahead. We’ll wait. Most of the dozens of services offered by these firms are for things like tenant screenings and run-of-the-mill pre-employment backgrounds. The firms do […]
Thanks to a recommendation from Hal Humphreys at PI Education, I got a chance to listen to the Bone Valley podcast a few weeks ago while I was driving through Arizona. It’s nine episodes (nine-plus hours) of pure entertainment that fit perfectly into my weeklong saunter from Phoenix to Sedona to the Grand Canyon and […]
The George Santos fiasco provides a glimpse into the biggest background investigation failure I have ever seen. It was a failure on so many levels, but from the prospective of someone who does a lot of this kind of work, the “background investigation” conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) had some huge mistakes. […]
Newly elected congressman George Santos is probably the biggest public-facing background investigation failure that the world has seen, and it’s a good reminder for the private equity community about investment due diligence and background investigations. In case you don’t know the whole story, George Santos was elected to Congress from his district on Long Island […]
There are very few people on this planet that I can give more credit to in my investigative career than Mary Shannon Little. She has been an enormous cheerleader, confidant and supporter for the last 13 years of my life. Mary gave me so many things, but the thing that she gave me the most […]
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