At first glance, agreeing to work with nearly impossible deadlines and challenging objectives seems like a recipe for stress and potential failure. For many, it might even seem crazy. But for investigators, it’s often just another day on the job—and there are surprising positives to these situations. Private investigators are often brought in as a […]
I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. In part, I am on there to catch up on peers, colleagues and industry trends, but truth be told, I am primarily on there conducting investigations in the context of legal matters, where I am trying to track down some former company employees who can discuss corporate […]
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. […]
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