18. The Secret Sauce

We have discussed instances of varying degrees of fraud that we have uncovered during our many years of conducting business investigations and also touched on some recent well known business scams. We have told you what happened, how it happened, and what could have been avoided from our professional perspective. But how do we do it? What do we look for? What is the recipe for our secret investigative sauce, and how can you apply our methods to your own due diligence initiatives?

No matter the nature of our inquiry, we always rely on two unique approaches to gathering intelligence and determining what needs to be done to give a client their required comfort level: our creative research strategies and our analysis of information. ...

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