Members of CRA’s team worked for the Trustee in the Bernard Madoff matter investigating the role of numerous banks and hedge funds in enabling the fraud. This involved the identification and penetration of offshore shell companies and complex corporate structures used to move funds. It also involved extensive background investigations and identification of assets held by Madoff family members and employees, as well as hundreds of Madoff account holders, including several suspected of being “facilitators” of the fraud.
#Whack-a-mole: Challenges in social media investigative research
In this CRA Insights, Victor Epstein reflects on how social media can be leveraged to gather insights into an individual’s movements, comments, associates, and...