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Former Wells Fargo executive slapped with $17.5 billion in fines
John Stumpf has been slapped with the largest fine ever levied against a single individual in litigative history. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a division of the Treasury Department in the United States, has finally stuck a blow against one of the...
National Law Relations Board reverses controversial position on internal investigations
The National Law Relations Board reverses controversial position on internal investigations. Employers across the country have operated in a sea of gray area when it comes to confidentiality among employees regarding internal investigations. The question remained...
McDonalds CEO Seeks to Change Corporate Culture
Corporations and institutions with relative high visibility have a lot to lose when internal misconduct is exposed. If you are an institution, such as a school, prison, or government body, internal misconduct can strongly shake the public’s confidence in how that...
Fishbowl Investigations: Conducting Visible Internal Investigations
Corporations that have seen a decline in their corporate culture are turning to internal investigation and risk assessment firms for help in 2020. The discourse around corporate culture has evolved significantly over the last few years, with employees voicing their...
Employee Theft: A Symptom of Poor Corporate Culture
Regardless of the industry, all businesses should be vigilant with regards to employee theft. Employee theft can come in all shapes and sizes, from an administrative assistant pocketing some extra Post-Its to hardcore embezzlement on behalf of leadership. It can be...
The Role of Mental Health in Corporate Culture
The ubiquity of smart technology and information technology has made work-life balance more attainable than ever in the United States workforce. Telecommuting has made it possible for single parents to work while also caring for their children, and for single...
The Biggest Corporate Scandals of the Decade (2010 – 2019)
It’s mind-boggling to think that some of the most controversial scandals in our country’s history have taken place only in the last decade. Corporate scandal is a hot media item, with the misbehavior of employees at all levels facing public scrutiny. Information on...
8 Signs You Need a Corporate Culture Audit
8 Signs You Need a Corporate Culture Audit How do you know when your business or organization needs a corporate culture audit? The fact of the matter is that you don’t have to be an educated risk assessment investigator to identify the signs. Many employees can trace...
10 Steps to Conducting Internal Investigations
It's important to remain very organized and transparent when conducting an internal investigation in order to protect the business or organization. When conducting an internal investigation, it’s imperative that the investigation be comprehensive and impartial from...
Hiring a Private Investigator for Your Internal Investigation
Private investigators can bring down the costs of internal corporate investigations. There is a wide variety of events that could trigger a corporate investigation. Perhaps an employee files a sexual harassment complaint against another. Perhaps a whistleblower brings...
Corporate Culture Audits: Why Hire a Private Investigator?
When corporations make the investment to evaluate their corporate culture, it’s important that they choose a vendor who offers a comprehensive audit program. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) saw an overall increase of 13.6%...
Sexual Harassment & Corporate Culture Audits
Sexual harassment in the workplace can create a hostile environment for employees and decrease workfroce morale. The #MeToo movement has fundamentally changed the conversation around reporting and documenting allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace. Victims...
Louisville, Kentucky Private Investigations
When you think of private investigators, you don’t usually imagine the state of Kentucky as their stomping ground, but the flexibility of a private investigator’s skills can be applied in any city, any state, as long as the investigator meets the state requirements...
Corporate Culture & Employee Litigation
Every corporation needs an excellent in-house attorney to fight complex legal battles in their stead—someone to act in the best interests of the company and its future. In addition to the everyday intricacies of business litigation, house counsel may also have to...
Corporate Culture on Your Company’s Intranet
When considering your company’s culture, sometimes it’s difficult to know where your organization stands in relativity to other businesses like yours. The answer could be closer than you think. When corporations submit to a corporate cultural audit, one of the first...
Millennials On Deck to Transform Corporate Culture
If you are a member of Generation X or older, you might have noticed your workplace undergoing significant changes more often than usual. The technology used in daily operations is being updated, streamlined, and implemented from the top-down. The language of your...
Corporate Culture Audit: What to Expect During an Audit
Pervasive internal issues are the malignancies that contribute to the decline of any corporation. While they come in many shapes and iterations, issues like communication, employee engagement, and employee relations can quickly derail a corporation’s mission. That’s...
Corporate Crisis: Contextual Crises within Major Retailers
With retailers like Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon at the forefront of consumer watchdogs, the conversation around corporate culture and how it affects business continues to become inwardly focused. The nature of capitalism and supply-and-demand business models sometimes...
Essence
ESSENCE Special Report: How D.C.'s Disappearing Girls Highlight The Nation's Black and Missing Problem
Vice
What We Know About the Missing Teen Whose Parents Were Shot to Death
San Diego Tribune
Private eyes look for runaways, sex-trade victims to rescue
Stuff
Police reveal number of missing people who are believed to have been murdered
Cleveland
Activists call for dedicated missing persons unit; cities that have them caution against high hopes
Cape Cod Times
Most missing adult cases unsolved
Pheonix New Times
The National Center for Missing Adults’ Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive
Los Angeles Daily News
LAPD, family both trying to find man missing 4 1/2 years
Ann Arbor News
Is Olisa Williams still alive?