INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
For over a quarter century, we have helped area businesses respond to critical issues that have threatened their continued success. These issues have included rampant theft, widespread substance abuse, lack of effective supervision, fraud, embezzlement and workplace violence.

After many years of working closely with hundreds of corporate executives dealing with internal problems, we have developed an expertise and methodology that enables us to conduct sensitive internal investigations without disrupting the often delicate fabric of your workplace environment. We are skilled at soliciting the cooperation of your employees during fact-finding interviews, as well as obtaining signed statements from employees responsible for improper and often illegal activity. In conjunction with employee interviews, our capability of obtaining necessary evidence by utilizing the combined assets of our undercover operatives, surveillance units and database searches can provide the type of information needed by senior management to make critical decisions.

LITIGATION SUPPORT
While working under the direction of our numerous legal clients, we have assisted them in gathering evidence, locating witnesses, interviewing witnesses, as well as searching databases and public records in support of important litigation. Staff investigators are also experienced in offering necessary court testimony, having testified in hundreds of cases at the local, state and federal levels. Often the information and witnesses we have developed enabled our clients to make decisive and critical decisions regarding negotiations and determining possible settlement terms. We are also able to provide critical background information regarding adverse parties and witnesses.

CRIMINAL DEFENSE
Many of our senior staff members have law enforcement experience at the state and federal level, which puts us in a strong position to assist our legal clients as they represent their clients charged with criminal acts. We can obtain, evaluate and analyze police reports, charging documents, affidavits and even evidence gathered by the police. We can locate hard to find witnesses and interview them with the skill needed to uncover information often ignored or unsolicited by law enforcement authorities. We can also obtain recorded statements and sworn affidavits if appropriate, as well as obtain photographs of crime scenes. We have the capability of obtaining highly sophisticated aerial photographs in cases where this information is critical.

DUE DILIGENCE
In assisting our legal and corporate clients through mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, we have a developed and proven expertise in providing the necessary background information regarding both corporate entities and key executives. By utilizing a combination of public and private information sources, we are able to provide a factual basis to allow those clients to make essential decisions regarding the future direction of corporate activity. Emphasis is placed on investigating the reliability, integrity and viability of the parties with whom our clients are contemplating an association, to assist them in evaluating the value of this prospective relationship.

VIOLATIONS OF FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY
Skilled agents capable of posing as corporate executives, potential customers, and even interested investors, have successfully gathered evidence needed to act decisively against employees, partners and former executives who have breached their fiduciary responsibility to the company. Often working closely with corporate counsel, we have enabled clients to apply for injunctive relief and other long-term remedies to successfully defend against this growing problem that has become endemic to today's business environment.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT
Castle Security Group can provide you with skilled agents capable of infiltrating seminars, training sessions and conducting one-on-one interviews with former franchisees and senior executives who attempt to use your intellectual property to their own advantage. We have successfully provided the evidence necessary for corporate counsel to move decisively in both federal and state courts to halt the improper use of intellectual property developed by you or your client.

COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS
Our many years of service to the recording industry and numerous national retailers enables us to effectively gather the necessary evidence to react decisively when counterfeit products are offered in the marketplace. Often working with local police authorities, our investigations have resulted in search warrants, arrests and a quick end to these illegal activities. In addition to making hand-to-hand purchases, transactions have also been accomplished through the Internet, as well as other means. By combining these purchases with our surveillance capabilities, we have been able to provide information revealing not only the identity of the retailer, but often the source of the counterfeit products.

ASSET SEARCHES
When clients are adversely affected by loan defaults, bankruptcies and insolvencies, we can assist them in searching for hard-to-find assets that often go unreported. We can also provide valuable information regarding assets prior to costly litigation and after judgments have been awarded. In addition to effective public and private database searches, we can also provide other specialized services, to include surveillance, when we believe that critical information is being intentionally concealed.

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