We assisted counsel, in a recent divorcecase, to expand the opposing sides number of checking accounts from the 35 voluntarily disclosed in the discovery documents to over 174 actual accounts.

We assisted our client, in a debt collectioncase, in identifying several substantial assets that had been transferred to relatives to avoid garnishment. We also located the debtor's place of employment when in the debtor's exam the debtor claimed to be unemployed.

We assisted a client, in a bankruptcy case, by proving that the debtor had transferred a substantial amount of assets from his name into a number of corporations to avoid garnishment and seizure. As the case progressed, our continued investigative work was reviewed by the FBI, the IRS Criminal Investigations, and the Arizona Corporation Commission and was the basis for the commencement of criminal investigations into the activities of the debtor.

We assisted counsel, in a probate case, in identifying over three million dollars of assets for the heirs of the estate.

We assisted counsel, in a business litigation case, by providing the proof that a venture capital company had converted over a quarter of a million dollars of their clients money for their own use.

We were engaged, prior to the underwriting of a technology company, by the Securities Underwriter, to perform an in-depth, pre-offering Due Diligence Investigation of the company, its principals, officers, directors, key employees and major shareholders. The investigation showed that all of the representations made by the medical technology firm were accurate. The underwriting was completed and the medical technology firm was purchased several years later by a major company, resulting in a substantial profit for all of the shareholders.

We assisted a client, in a child support case who was owed over fifty thousand dollars of arrearages from the ex-spouse, by locating the ex-spouse and the ex-spouse's substantial real estate holdings in three states to help satisfy the judgment.

These Case Histories are examples of the wide application and need for financial investigations. They are also examples of the results obtained by the people of our firm and the potential uses of financial investigators. The use of a financial investigator can often make a difference in the dollars put into a client's pocket as well as substantially reduce liabilities by not performing a proper de diligence investigation of the facts, representations and claims of others.