A 41-year-old Attica police officer has been arrested by the Police’s internal affairs division after evidence suggested that he had been selling his services as a private investigator and had blackmailed a client into paying him 200 euros. The unnamed officer allegedly hired himself out as a private investigator to a 34-year-old woman who wanted […]
Cheating husband tries to sue wife and PI for placing GPS in car
After a cheating husband, Kenneth Villanova, sued his wife and her private investigator, Richard Leonard, for an invasion of privacy, the New Jersey court ruled against him. Mr. Villanova argued that his wife was invading his privacy by placing a GPS tracker in his car. The court found that this was not true, since the […]
SEC Drops Moody’s Fraud Investigation
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that they decided to drop a fraud investigation into Moody’s, the credit rating agency. This, according to an article in the Washington Post. Moody’s computer crediting ratings wrongly attributed AAA ratings to nearly $1 billion in debt, inadvertently causing the debt to show that they yielded high returns […]
Undercover Investigation: University of Phoenix
The University of Phoenix is the largest for-profit college in the United States, with nearly half-a-million students. Former students, however, say they were misled into paying huge sums and taking on debt by recruiters, earning degrees that didn’t improve the student’s job prospects. A Noble, IL mother desired to become an elementary school teacher and, […]
Marriage Woes? When to Call a Private Investigator
With the divorce rate hovering at about 50%, couples seem to have more trouble than in past years trusting one another. Marriages are tenuous these days despite the fact that we promise “until death.” This distrust has led to confusion, and we often jump to conclusions before getting the facts. […]