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Investigative & Security Professionals for Legislative Action – Political Action Committee presents its first two PAC checks to lawmakers in Washington D.C.

ISPLA, through its newly formed nonpartisan ISPLA-Political Action Committee (PAC), has provided another “first” for Investigative and Security Professionals. On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, ISPLA-PAC presented its first two PAC checks to longtime supporters of our professions.

ISPLA-PAC was officially organized on July 2, 2009 to support members of Congress that support the investigative and security professions. With our PAC, ISPLA’s impact on legislation is strengthened by the added ability to support candidates whose positions are aligned with ISPLA’s goals.

These ISPLA-PAC donations are but a small expression of our thanks to these two members of Congress who understand the needs of investigative and security professionals.

For more information regarding this release or ISPLA go to www.ispla.org.

Increasing number of illegal cellular phone bugs found in Indiana by private investigator generates concerns. Increased requests for needed TSCM (technical surveillance countermeasures) services in Indiana prompts investigator to publish advisory.

Indianapolis, IN, August 05, 2006 –(PR.COM)– In response to growing concerns, an Indiana private investigator finds it necessary to publish this general announcement to aid in informing the general public about the issue of eavesdropping in the United States.

Everyone recalls The NY Times\’ December 16, 2005 story entitled \’Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts\’. \”Following the revelation that the NSA has been involved in warrantless wiretapping of US Citizens, the public has become acutely aware of eavesdropping issues,\” states Indiana private investigator, Tim Wilcox. As the president of International Investigators, Inc. based in Indianapolis, Mr. Wilcox states that he has been spending a lot of time explaining the facts relating to eavesdropping to people inquiring about their eavesdropping detection, or \’TSCM\’ (technical surveillance countermeasures) services. \”Despite the fact that the majority of Americans would likely not be monitored by the NSA, the public\’s increased awareness of potential risks and vulnerability to eavesdropping has made them inquisitive.\”

Mr. Wilcox explains that the most realistic eavesdropping threat for most people comes not from the government, but from people they know, or business competitors. \”In fact, the risk these days is greater than ever with the advent of the plain old cell phone. As a private investigator in Indiana, you would expect that we would find fewer eavesdropping devices than in more cosmopolitan areas like L.A. or N.Y., but this is not the case. Our firm performs TSCM sweeps (technical surveillance countermeasures or bug sweeps) across the country, and the incidence of cell phone bugging is no less here than elsewhere.

The Indiana investigator goes on to explain that, \”Two-thirds of all eavesdropping devices found these days are cell phone bugs. Many of these bugs are basic cell phones that have been adapted to answer silently and automatically when called. Some are disguised by having been built into ordinary household or office items, like clocks and lamps.\” Although highly illegal, Americans have been buying them from overseas suppliers at great risk of being arrested.

Cell phone bugs are extremely difficult to find unless they have been activated. \”Most PIs don\’t have the proper equipment to find them, and you can\’t buy an off-the-shelf device to detect them, although there are some equipment manufacturers who claim they have them … these are frauds. Our firm is the only one staffed with investigators in Indiana who have the proper equipment and training to find a cell phone bug that is not activated, or receiving a call.\” Due to the level of skill and the complex, expensive and rare equipment required to detect a cell phone bug, Investigator Wilcox has found his services have been in high demand, even outside of Indiana.

ABOUT
Since 1960, International Investigators, Inc. has assisted companies and individuals with their most sensitive matters. Based in Indiana, their staff of professional private investigators conducts research on a global scale for clients worldwide so that informed decisions can be made. A full description of their services and specialties is available at their website (www.iiiweb.net).

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Indianapolis, Indiana 46205
Tel: (317)925-1496
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Detroit, MI January 31, 2006

With nearly all business documents and a large amount of business correspondence being generated on computers, more and more Michigan businesses are finding that their computers hold far more information than they thought.

Deleted documents, email messages, web pages visited, uninstalled software applications and many other types of business documents can frequently be found on a computer by a trained computer forensic investigator like those working for Advanced Surveillance Group, Inc., a private detective agency based in Mt. Clemens.

Evidence of employee misconduct, violations of company policies, including but not limited to electronic use policies, viewing and/or creating illicit and illegal material, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and theft of proprietary information are often discovered in a computer forensic investigation of the subject’s P.C., laptop and/or email servers. Frequently we find inappropriate behavior in this type of investigation that would give your client a legitimate reason to terminate the employee or defend their position if they’ve already been terminated regardless of the original reason.
Worse yet are those employees who engage in the following on their computer:

• Theft of customer information
• Theft of financial information
• Altering financial records (usually done in conjunction with actual fraud)

Additional threats exist on a more frequent basis and result is lost productivity and massive personnel costs like reading/sending personal email, surfing pornography, online gambling, participating in E-Bay related activities, chatting, playing games and creating informal correspondence or files about work that are offensive or in direct violation to company policy that would not exist otherwise.

“We read articles about stock brokerage firms that have been successfully sued for hundreds of millions of dollars because of informal email messages about client activity, or cases involving discrimination or harassment

resulting in the same awards and all of the culpable information was derived from an employees computer utilizing computer forensics.” reports Paul Dank, licensed private detective and owner of Advanced Surveillance Group. “The good news is that we can easily employ this type of investigation to the benefit of the company by using it to locate threats ahead of time, to help defend employers in wrongful termination lawsuit and to catch thieves.”

Computer forensics is the process of gathering evidence from a computer or computers in a forensically accurate and verifiable manner. Aside from having the specialized hardware and software to get to the data, it is vital to have an investigator to analyze what they find and peal back layer after layer to get you complete results.

With so many computer consulting firms offering forensic work, one may ask, why should I hire a licensed private investigator trained in computer forensics to do this type of work rather than IT staff or outside computer consultants?

To answer that, there are a couple of reasons. In Michigan, as the client of a private detective, you have the same level of confidentiality that you benefit from with your physician or attorney, meaning, even if the evidence we locate is harmful or if you simply elect not to use it, no other third party can gain access to it or use it against you.

Further, IT staffers do not think or act like investigators. They are not trained to work with evidence nor are they knowledgeable in how it must be handled to be preserved as evidence usable in court. IT staffers are not trained in legal considerations associated with computer forensics. In addition, the evidence that the private detective finds often turns into additional non-computerized leads that need to be followed up on to make the evidence complete, and the IT staffer is simply not capable of doing this work.

The use of forensic specialists and a proactive approach to incident handling will improve organizational resilience and reduce the would be costs of expensive legal battles.

by Paul Dank, Licensed Private Detective

Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC– December 16, 2005 – In one of the largest coordinated enforcement actions ever taken against child prostitution rings in the United States, 19 individuals have been arrested and more than 30 charged in the latest phase of “Innocence Lost,” an ongoing national investigation into criminal enterprises involved in the recruitment of children for prostitution, the Department of Justice announced today.

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division, FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker, Criminal Investigative Division, and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) Vice President John Rabun announced the recent arrests a news conference in Washington today. As a result of this operation, more than 30 child victims were identified, bringing the overall total of child victims identified to more than 200 since the Innocence Lost initiative began in 2003. Items seized in this latest sweep included residential properties, vehicles, U.S. currency, electronics, jewelry, and child pornography images.

Within the past 48 hours, indictments and criminal complaints were unsealed in four U.S. Districts (the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the District of Hawaii) charging 31 individuals with various offenses including the transportation of minors to engage in prostitution, attempting to coerce and entice minors to engage in prostitution, sex trafficking in children, kidnapping, witness tampering, possession and distribution of child pornography, illegal firearms possession, narcotic offenses, money laundering and tax evasion. Twelve persons have been charged, but remain at large.

\”Our society has no place for those who prey on children and no tolerance for child prostitution or sex trafficking,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. “The Justice Department and our partners in the law enforcement community are committed to stopping this terrible practice and protecting our children. Through successful initiatives like Innocence Lost, we will continue to pursue aggressively sex traffickers, child prostitution rings, and the despicable individuals who stand behind them.\”

“The FBI and its partners cannot restore the innocence lost from those children who are lured into childhood prostitution,” said FBI Assistant Director Swecker. “These children are victimized twice; first by the handler who exploits them and secondly by the individual who solicits them. To combat these heinous crimes, we have channeled our resources through nationwide task forces to identify and disrupt criminal enterprises and predators engaged in the recruitment, exploitation, and transportation of juveniles for the purpose of prostitution.”

\”This is a crime of hidden victims,\” said John Rabun, Vice President of NCMEC. “Many think child trafficking is only a problem in foreign countries, but nothing can be further from the truth. Thanks to the FBI’s leadership, more victims are being uncovered and more perpetrators arrested.”

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

In Pennsylvania, a 33-count federal indictment was unsealed against the following 16 defendants: Franklin Robinson, Derek Maes, Terrance Williams, Derick Price, Dawan Oliver, Kenneth Britton, Shimon Maxwell, Eric Pennington, Eric Hayes, Kory Barham, Robert Scott, Sr., Robert Scott II, David Powers, Atlas Aquarius Simpson, Melissa Jacobs and Tana Adkins. The superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on December 8, 2005. The defendants are charged with offenses including conspiracy to violate federal law, transporting individuals, including minors, interstate for prostitution, sex trafficking of children, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

The conspiracy count naming all of the defendants charges that, from February 2001 to the present date, the defendants conspired to transport individuals interstate and entice individuals to travel interstate for the purpose of prostitution and travel in interstate commerce and use facilities in interstate commerce to promote prostitution. The overt acts listed in furtherance of the conspiracy allege that the defendants used juveniles and adults for prostitution activity in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area and that they coordinated this activity by setting prices for sexual services at the Gables of Harrisburg truck stop in Linglestown, Pennsylvania and wiring money to co-conspirators in other states. The conspiracy also allegedly involved extensive interstate travel and transportation of women and girls for prostitution. Those transported include a 12 year-old girl. The multiple locations around the country connected to the charged conspiracy include Washington, D.C., and Toledo, Ohio, which is the hometown of several of the defendants. The defendants also allegedly gave and sold women and girls to each other for use as prostitutes.

The indictment also alleges that the defendants used violence and intimidation to recruit and control the women and girls working for them or their co-conspirators. Among these acts of violence, defendant Franklin Robinson allegedly told defendant Derek Maes that he had fractured his hand while beating a woman working for him as a prostitute because she had not made enough money. Defendant Derek Maes allegedly broke the nose of a woman who was working for him as a prostitute and later threatened her family. Defendants Melissa Jacobs and Tana Adkins allegedly beat a woman who was working as a “renegade,” or without a pimp, at the Gables of Harrisburg truck stop in Linglestown, Pennsylvania.

The indictment also contains forfeiture allegations concerning property connected to the money laundering and child exploitation offenses, including property used to facilitate these offenses. The indictment also seeks forfeiture of a money judgment of one million dollars and real property including several residences in Ohio and numerous vehicles.

The investigation is being conducted by the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigative Division (IRS-CID), the Pennsylvania State Police, the Swatara Township Police Department, the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office, and the Steelton Police Department.

The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gordon Zubrod and James Clancy, and Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Trial Attorney Wendy Waldron.

ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY

In New Jersey, Matthew D. Thompkins, Demetrius Lemus, Noel Lopez, Melissa Ramlakhan, Emily Collins-Koslosky, Jacqueline Collins-Koslosky, Anna Argyroudis, and Kemyra Jemerson were indicted by a federal grand jury in Camden, New Jersey. The defendants are charged with conspiring to transport minors in furtherance of prostitution.

The underlying federal investigation into the prostitution enterprise allegedly led and organized by Matthew D. Thompkins began in January of 2004. The investigation allegedly revealed Thompkins has been a pimp for many years operating in cities including Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Bronx, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, Miami, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. It is also alleged that Thompkins has close relationships with other pimps including defendants Lemus and Lopez whom Thompkins mentors and who assist Thompkins in the operation of his prostitution enterprise. The indictment alleges that Thompkins has had both minor and adult females working for him as prostitutes. Most of Thompkins’ prostitutes assist in running the prostitution enterprise by recruiting new prostitutes, arranging and assisting travel of prostitutes including minors between major cities to engage in prostitution, and laundering the proceeds of their illegal activities.

Thompkins owns real estate either in his own name or of that of his co-conspirators including Melissa Ramlakhan, in the Bronx, New York, Yonkers, New York, and in Galloway Township, New Jersey. The indictment alleges these properties have been used to facilitate prostitution activities. Thompkins owns a variety of vehicles including a 2003 GMC Hummer H2, a 2003 Land Rover-Range Rover, a 2002 Cadillac Escalade, a 2003 Mercedes Benz SL500, a 2001 Mercedes Benz, a 2000 Mercedes Benz CL500, and a 1999 Lexus RX300. These vehicles allegedly have also been used to facilitate prostitution activities.

The investigation is being conducted by the FBI in cooperation with the Atlantic City Police Department, the New Jersey State Police, the Pleasantville Police Department, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor Racketeering, the Egg Harbor Township Police Department, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Considerable assistance was also provided by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Sherri A. Stephan of the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Richardson of the District of New Jersey.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN/HONOLULU, HAWAII

In Michigan, two prostitution rings were dismantled. In one, Robert Lewis Young, Jeffrey McCoy, and George Abro were indicted December 13, 2005 by a federal grand jury in Detroit. The defendants were charged with 27 counts of violating federal statutes including the sex trafficking of children, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity, transportation for prostitution, sexual exploitation of children, interstate distribution of child pornography, threatening interstate communications, possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, felon in possession of a firearm, money laundering, and use of an interstate facility in aid of racketeering.

The federal investigation stems from Young’s prostitution enterprise that spanned from Michigan to Hawaii. The investigation revealed Young allegedly recruited women and children to prostitute for him and, as a result, reaped substantial financial benefit. The indictment further alleges that Young laundered the proceeds of those illegal prostitution activities with the help of co-conspirators. Additionally, the District of Hawaii yesterday charged Young with 21 counts of violating federal statutes including the sex trafficking of children, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, transportation of a minor for criminal sexual activity, transportation for prostitution, distribution of child pornography, money laundering, and use of an interstate facility in aid of racketeering.

The investigation is being conducted by the FBI, Michigan State Police, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, IRS, the Detroit Major Crimes Task Force, the Detroit Police Department, and the Macomb County Enforcement Team. In Hawaii, the investigation was led by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force comprised of members from the State Attorney Generals Office, the FBI, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Honolulu Police Department.

The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Michigan, Assistant U.S. Attorney John O’Brien and Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Trial Attorney Kayla Bakshi. The charges in Hawaii are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Wes Porter of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Hawaii.

In a separate Michigan case, Deric Willoughby, Brandy Shope, Jennifer Huskey, and Richard Lamar Gordon were indicted December 13, 2005 by a federal grand jury in Detroit. The defendants are charged with 5 counts each including sexual exploitation of children, transportation of children for the purpose of prostitution, sexual trafficking of children, interstate transportation of minors for prostitution, conspiracy, and aiding and abetting.

The indictment alleges that during May 2005, defendants Willoughby, Shope, Huskey, and Gordon engaged in a conspiracy to commit the offenses of sexual exploitation of children and transportation of children for the purposes of prostitution. Specifically, the defendants are alleged to have transported two minor girls from their hometown of Toledo, Ohio to Michigan for the purpose of forcing the two minors to engage in commercial sexual acts for money. The minor girls were allegedly instructed by Shope and co-defendant Huskey that they would be prostituting themselves for Willoughby and that they would have to obey him or suffer physical harm. During the ten days that the minors were being held by Willoughby, Shope and Huskey, each minor was physically assaulted by Willoughby in addition to being forced to engage in several different commercial sexual acts as defendants Shope and Huskey watched, participated, and collected money from patrons. At one point during the conspiracy, defendants Willoughby, Shope and Huskey allegedly transported the two minor girls to a Sears parking lot in Toledo, Ohio where they met co-defendant Gordon. Gordon, a truck driver, transported the women to a truck stop in Michigan where he allegedly paid to have sex with one of the minors, while the other minor, accompanied by defendant Shope, was forced to engage in commercial sexual acts with other truck drivers at the truck stop.

The FBI and Washtenaw County Sheriff\’s Department are conducting the investigation and the case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Saima Mohsin of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Michigan, with the assistance of Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Trial Attorney Kayla Bakshi.

All of the charges announced today are merely accusations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.

INNOCENCE LOST INITIATIVE

In the spring of 2003, the Violent Crimes and Major Offenders Section (VCMOS) of FBI headquarters, in partnership with the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), initiated \”Innocence Lost,\” designed to address the growing problem of children forced into prostitution. The program brings state and federal law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and social service providers all from one city to NCMEC, where the group is trained together. In addition, CEOS has reinforced the training by assigning prosecutors to help bring cases in those cities plagued by child prostitution. To date, the Innocence Lost Initiative has resulted in 139 open investigations (67 in 2004 and 72 in 2005), 505 arrests (118 in 2004 and 387 in 2005), 60 complaints (11 in 2004 and 49 in 2005), 70 indictments (26 in 2004 and 44 in 2005), and 67 convictions (22 in 2004 and 45 in 2005).

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2005-09-20 13:30:00.0 CDT

BDO Seidman, LLP, one of the nation\’s leading professional service organizations, has announced that George E. Georgiades has joined the firm’s Litigation and Fraud Investigation practice in the New York office as a Computer Forensics Specialist. Mr. Georgiades will enhance the practice’s in-house computer forensics team on projects involving electronic evidence seizure, collection, discovery, preservation, and analysis.

George Georgiades is a strong addition to our investigative team. His experience in forensic investigations involving revenue recognition, purchase price disputes, intellectual property, royalties, criminal and financial misappropriation cases will be a valued asset, said Carl W. Pergola, National Director of BDO Seidman’s Litigation and Fraud Investigation practice.

George E. Georgiades, 26, brings specialized experience in both computer forensics and litigation data analysis to BDO Seidman. He has led and served as a valued member of several investigative teams, including leading a team in an investigation of alleged front running by NYSE specialist firms.

Previously Mr. Georgiades worked as an electronic evidence consultant for FTI Consulting and as an analytic and forensic technology consultant at Deloitte & Touche. At BDO Seidman, Mr. Georgiades will utilize his considerable skills and experience to quickly focus investigations on the areas of data storage within clients’ financial systems that are most likely to yield evidence.

Additionally, Mr. Georgiades will assist our clients with discovery, analysis, and reporting of findings. Mr. Georgiades is a graduate of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College and majored in computer information systems.

Unlike the vast majority of the major accounting firms, BDO Seidman is a licensed private investigation firm providing fraud, forensic accounting and investigative services under one roof. The litigation and forensic practice also maintains a secure computer forensics lab to analyze electronic information and complement our core skills in interviewing and financial analysis. Specific services provided by the Litigation and Fraud Investigation Service practice include investigative research and due diligence; background investigations; preservation and analysis of computer evidence and identification and recovery of criminally derived assets.

BDO Seidman, LLP is a national professional services firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. Guided by core values of integrity, trust, professionalism, independence and service for more than 90 years, we have provided quality service and leadership through the active involvement of our most experienced and committed professionals.

Townsend Investigations
6/6/2005 8:14:05 PM

The night Timothy Stone was killed; many anomalies are observed in the official reports that cry out for hard justice.

Evidence collected thus far by Susan Townsend, the private investigator hired by the family, confirms that Timothy Stone was murdered on September 23rd, 2003 in Chidester, AR while traveling on Hwy 57.

Prior to Tim’s death, Tim and his grandfather made several complaints to law enforcement that Tim had been threatened. When he was killed only days later, officers treated this incident as little more than a mere traffic accident. A critical piece of evidence – Tim’s car – was removed from the crime scene to a privately owned impound yard. This fueled a series of events that only added to more destruction and contamination of said evidence, and severely compromised any viable case for the prosecution.

Richard Milner, appointed Deputy Coroner, has recently changed the official manner of death in Tim Stone’s case from “accidental” to “undetermined.” Mr. Milner has stated profusely that he had been “uncomfortable with the ruling from day one,” but felt pressured by other officials to stand down.

Valuable Polaroid photographs taken at the crime scene by the Sheriff somehow mysteriously “disappeared,” only to miraculously “reappear” just a few weeks ago.

More than twenty witnesses have come forward to offer statements in the weeks following Timothy Stone’s death. These statements were video and/or audio taped by Townsend Investigations. Copies of materials were forwarded to the appropriate state and local authorities; however, these officials refuse to make the necessary arrests commensurate with these findings. Even Prosecutor Jamie Pratt indicated that “…. from what I’ve heard and what I’ve seen, we [State] are going to pursue this.”

The inconsistencies in this case are staggering. At the very least we can prove incompetence, mishandling of evidence in a crime, and gross negligence by authorities handling the case.

Townsend Investigations have isolated and identified two main suspects. Both of these perpetrators have established criminal histories, including grand theft, larceny, gun theft, and drug abuse.

With the family’s permission, we are now releasing pertinent details of the Timothy Stone case file to all members of the press and television media.

*Story contributed in part by John G. Tarsikes, Jr. – a retired police detective and private investigator.

Advanced Surveillance Group, a leading private detective agency specializing in surveillance and information gathering has launched a new nationwide business background check investigation for both consumers and businesses which gives our clients real information they can use to make accurate decisions before working with a certain business

Detroit, MI (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) April 8, 2005 — Advanced Surveillance Group, a leading private detective agency specializing in surveillance and information gathering has launched a new nationwide business background check investigation for both consumers and businesses which gives our clients real information they can use to make accurate decisions before working with a certain business. This business background check is designed to provide clients with very specific information about a business, its owners, officers or managers, financial status, litigation history, government and creditor liens and aims to identify other problems they may be undergoing but are unwilling to disclose voluntarily.

“With more and more of us doing business over the internet and with companies located across the country, we are seeing people being victimized by unethical and fraudulent businesses and losing substantial amounts of money” reports Paul Dank, private investigator. He adds “the majority of those who are victimized could have easily avoided these problems if they just called us to take a look at this company before making a financial commitment. We help clients ranging from the individual considering making a purchase on-line to the business owner who needs to make better decisions about selecting new suppliers, taking on a new customer or considering new business partners.”

Most internet background check sites are nothing more than outdated public record searches. Those reputable firms like D & B and the BBB are excellent resources but they are limited in terms of the type and depth of information they can give you. As licensed private investigators, we give you facts, supporting documentation and a well reasoned opinion about the business, not a mere computer generated, speculative database search. This type of investigation can be done quickly and affordably throughout the United States.

For additional information, visit us at: www.asginvestigations.com

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Michigan Private Investigator Receives Tracy Minnella Award for Fight Against Domestic Violence
Mt. Clemens, Michigan, 1/10/05 — Michigan Private Detective, Paul Dank of Advanced Surveillance Group, a detective agency specializing in surveillance and information gathering was awarded the The Tracy Minnella Award in recognition of leadership, dedication and concern in the support of survivors and victims of domestic violence, awarded by the Macomb County Domestic Violence Council at the end of 2004. Mr Dank was recognized for his assistance of victims of domestic violence to help get personal protective orders placed against their attackers and to help them to gather information to protect themselves, their identities and children, at little or no cost.

The award is presented to the person identified as contributing the most to the effort to help domestic violence and protect the victims in Macomb County, Michigan. The award was presented at a domestic violence vigil held in warren, Michigan. “I was honored to receive the award and more honored to be able to provide some assistance to those who have the misfortune of being victimized by a relative or boyfriend in conjunction with the dedicated staff at the Turning Point center. Many of these victims are single mothers who are trying to escape from an abusive environment where criminal activity, physical abuse, drugs and alcohol threaten them and their children” commented Mr. Dank.