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The Yale Med School Fraud: Where Were the Auditors?
Specializing in financial investigations as we do, I am always fascinated when new financial frauds come to light, and I always want to know how the person got caught. In the case of the recent Yale...
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Five Questions to Ask an Investigator Before Hiring
Where do you start in deciding which investigator to hire for a sensitive job? . It should be a business of trust, just as it is when choosing someone to come up with an estate plan, to sue a former...
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Beware of Optical Illusions in an Investigation
Many of us love optical illusions. It’s a safe thrill to know we’re being tricked, and yet are still unable to tell our brains to “get real” and stop the illusion. Bridget Riley, section of Blaze 4...
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Keith Hernandez on Hitting and Why Investigators Should Take Note
When not at work, I like to do many things, and one of my favorites is to watch New York Mets baseball. Since moving to New York I’ve grown to love the team and I make common cause with the many Mets...
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The Advantage of Small Talk in Big Cases
Listen to me explain why putting people at ease is the best way to elicit information from them. I don’t have a badge or a subpoena, so the key is to be nice to them and be interested in what they do,...
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Financial Investigators: Don’t Forget About Emotion
In a financial investigation it’s easy to get buried under all the words and numbers and to forget about emotions – those of your client, the person you’re investigating, and your own. It’s...
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Can ChatGPT Help in an Investigation?
ChatGPT now comes up in most of the extended conversations I have with lawyers about how things are going. Many rave about how easy it is to have this robot whip up a simple motion or even, in one...
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Remember those law school exams that depended not as much on getting the right answer as on issue spotting? Usually you got a fact pattern and you had to look at all the ways those facts would present...
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What You Won’t Read in Our Reports: “He Has No Criminal Record”
Clients who have seen the online “Nationwide criminal background check, $69” come-ons sometimes ask why we won’t ever say that someone has no criminal record. They also wonder why doing a proper...
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How Good Investigators Think about Search Engines
Not as magic bullets, but as helpful reference librarians. Courtesy: Arlington, VA Public Library Remember in middle school when you had to write a report about how many lobsters were caught in Maine...
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