ACHIEVEMENTS Fraud and Identity Theft Our client found out that his Post Office Box inside of a United States Post Office was broken into during the month of January when all of his 1099 and credit card renewals arrived in the mail. The client contacted the Sheriff Department and the US Postal Inspector but their response was painfully slow. Eventually his credit cards were fraudulently charged and he learned that new credit card applications were being applied for in his name. Fortunately, he was able to reverse all the fraudulent charges and notify the three credit bureaus to post a special watch on his account. This client was a man of principal who was not going to allow the perpetrators to get away with stealing from him. We were asked to commence a criminal investigation and within three weeks we coordinated with the Fontana, California Police Department and the San Bernardino office of the US Postal Inspector to obtain a Federal Search Warrant on three suspects we located. The warrant was issued and all three suspects were arrested and prosecuted. The ringleader had just been paroled for the identical crime a month before he broke open the post office box. Runaway and Missing Persons We were called by a frantic mother in Northern California who explained that five days earlier her fourteen year old son ran away from home and not one of his friends would tell her where he was. Under this circumstance the police cannot force anyone, be it a minor or adult to reveal the whereabouts of the child. We identified an adult as a primary suspect and had our agents place him under surveillance. We also spoke to reluctant neighbors who lived in the suspect's complex. They were afraid of the man believed to be harboring the boy. After intense interviewing of all the boy's friends and his family members and while our surveillance was ongoing, one of the suspect's neighbors called us to say they just saw the boy and the adult male walk back into the suspect's townhouse. We called the Sheriff and when they arrived the adult male gave us all permission to enter the residence. We noticed an attic door in the ceiling on the second floor. We opened it and there was the child. The Sheriff had searched the same unit three previous times but they never bothered to 'look up.' Our client was ecstatic but unfortunately she learned that her child was heavily addicted to illicit drugs that were being supplied by the suspect. Mom placed her son in a drug rehabilitation program, the suspect was arrested and the last we heard all was fine. Litigation Support For the past sixteen years we have worked with quite an array of prominent attorneys and are very proud of the accolades received from them some of which are published on our website. One attorney client asked us to find eleven witnesses believed to be residing in Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA. Our client could only give us first and last names. All of them worked for a company in the late 1980's that was eventually acquired. This assignment was quite a challenge. Ten of the eleven were located within three weeks. One of New York City's most respected attorneys was defending a sixty million dollar breach of contract suit. Our location of an informant who later became a significant witness in the case enabled our client to file a RICO counter suit and our client secured an extraordinary settlement. Litigation Support Another New York attorney with a highly regarded law firm represented a French bank who was embezzled out of two hundred and forty-nine million dollars. We successfully tracked the funds to Central America and the Isle of Mann. Our efforts enabled our client to convince the defendants to agree to a favorable settlement. During a criminal Federal Court trial in Los Angeles our investigative efforts played a significant role in winning a dismissal for our client who was up against insurmountable odds. All of the following government agencies were involved with the prosecution of his case. The FBI, the DEA, the US Customs Dept and the US Immigration and Naturalization Department (now called ICE). We established that the government's primary witness (a federal agent) had severely perjured himself and created pathological scenarios for the government to believe that our client was into a multitude of illegal operations. The agent blatantly violated his oath and official duties and he was indicted on criminal perjury charges. He is no longer a Federal agent and never will be again. Intellectual Property and Counterfeiting The proliferation of counterfeit high end products such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Hermes causes billions of dollars in lost income to those companies. Our agents work continuously under very dangerous conditions to identify the origin of the counterfeit products, the primary distributors in the country where the counterfeit products are made and then they follow the shipments all over the world. This enables the clients to file the appropriate complaints in the World Court and with the individual country's governments.