By Brian Willingham So, what is it really like to be a private investigator? Fast cars? Espionage? Stakeouts? Surveillance? Spying? It turns out that I do none of that. A lot of PI mythology is, in fact, mythical. Interestingly, if you ask 15 different private investigators what they do, you might get 15 different answers. Even If if you ask
Read moreBy Brian Willingham We are often asked about how to find certain pieces of information about someone. Like whether they are married. Where they live. What date they were born. Whether they have any money. Where they work. What kind of person they are. Or what they are up to. Which got me thinking. What if you wanted to find
Read moreBy Brian Willingham Below is a short list of services that private investigators can provide to law firms. Even with all this, there are hundreds of other things that can be added. For the sake of brevity, we’ve narrowed down that list to 44 things. Ultimately, private investigators find “information” or “facts,” but that’s not nearly as entertaining as #44
Read moreBy Brian Willingham I was struck today by the story of Steven Zoernack, who suckered 40 investors out of $5.6 million, all while hiding the fact that he had two felony fraud convictions (he appears to have been on probation during the time he was soliciting investors for his new scam) and a bankruptcy as well as money judgments and
Read moreBy Brian Willingham This month marks the 15th year that I have been a private investigator. Fifteen years ago, I was riding in a blimp taking photographs of the World Series. Shortly after, in a strange twist of fate, I was sitting in cars for hours on end doing surveillance, at one point tracking the steps of what we thought
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