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Greetings!
We bring you confidence through information.
Our job is to provide you the information you need. Whether it's through our investigative services or through our informative newsletters, we want you to have the latest and current information. In this edition, we have addressed two subjects: How Privacy Legislation Affects You and How to Find the Money.
We want to write about topics that you can use in your day-to-day practice. Please e-mail us your topics of interest at InvestigativeReport@completelegalinv.com.
We encourage you to share our e-newsletter with others in your sphere of influence.
Sincerely,
Your Team at Complete Legal Investigations
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Where's The Money?
"Follow the money." Quoting Deep Throat in All the President's Men, investigative journalist, Bob Woodward, struck a chord that resonates still today with litigators and business people everywhere. Finding out "who has how much of what" is critical to equitable settlements. Back in the 1970's - when the Watergate scandal ran amok - attorneys, investigators, and forensic accountants had considerable leeway to ferret out hidden cash flows and surreptitious accounts.
Unearthing critical data is no longer that easy. For example, one old-school investigative technique, called "pretexting," involved the contrived "spoofing" of banking officials to obtain accurate financial records. Today, such practices are illegal.
The Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or GLB Act, spells out ... Read More
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How Privacy Legislation Affects You
Today, the titles to cars, boats, and planes; property and tax records; life insurance policies, investment records, details on personal shopping habits, political affiliations, and health care records, are all digitized and filed away in somebody's database.
Optimally, access to all this data should ease the burden on investigators and attorneys to find witnesses and track down assets. However, pending legislation puts legitimate database access in danger.
The problem is complex. According to PrivacyRights.org, between January 10, 2005 and March 2, 2010, a whopping 346,512,902 private database records, containing sensitive personal information, were compromised due to security breaches. This is the statistical equivalent of more than one record compromised for each man, woman, and child in the United States.
Current reports from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) show a 21% increase in ID theft during 2008 over previous years, and aggregate annual losses to consumers and businesses hovering around $50 billion. In reality, ... Read more
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Child Support: Getting Yours...Or Not
One of the consequences of divorce, if children are involved, is child support. If you're one of the fortunate custodial parents who is receiving all the financial support that you're entitled to, congratulations! You're in a statistical minority, however. When it comes to child support, the facts are pretty dismal. In Florida, 826,000 children are owed $4 billion in support, and only 39% have received at least one payment! In fact, only 25% of all cases receive total payments! If you're receiving support, or are trying to collect, I recommend you ...Read More
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