By PInow Staff Whether or not you realized it at the time, you have probably collected Open Source Intelligence, (OSINT) at some point in your investigative career. True to its name, OSINT is open-source, meaning that all its information is available to the general public. Since OSINT is accessible to everyone, it might not seem…
Ronan Farrow Exposes the Dark Underbelly of Private Investigators
By Brian Willingham This week, Ronan Farrow, the investigative reporter, published a three-part series (read Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here) on the Israel-based “intelligence firm” Black Cube, whom Farrow had some run-ins with while exposing Harvey Weinstein. It’s a pretty captivating story if you are into espionage, spies, surveillance, intrigue,…
5 Lessons from Corporate Investigations Gone Bad
By Brian Willingham This has been a bad couple of weeks for private investigators. First, there was the story of Credit Suisse, which hired private investigators to follow a former top executive whom the bank thought was trying to poach employees and clients. But the former executive got into a confrontation with the investigator hired…
Making a Citizen’s Arrest
By Stephanie Irvine With a nationwide shortage of police officers, many departments across the country are running short-staffed. The effects of this shortage proliferate into communities large and small, as there are fewer “good guys” around to stop the “bad guys,” and officers are often dispatched from call to call, resulting in longer response times…
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Right, we have all heard the stories, you know, gerontologists stories, you go to a party and those are the guys you want to talk to, they always have the, you wouldn’t believe stories. Well, that makes sense, but I generally want to hang around with Vets, especially those that deal with farm animals, you…