Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Did You Know... (PI Historical Trivia 2)

Early law enforcement focused on making arrests for crimes in progress. If an individual wanted to pursue criminal action against a suspect they had to hire their own private investigator, known then as "thief takers", who charged for their services.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Government Oversight or Overlooked?

One of the functions of The New York Federal Reserve Bank is to monitor other financial institutions to ensure that the financial crisis which occurred in this county in 2008 does not happen again.

According to the article "NY Fed Fired Examiner Who Took on Goldman", Carmen Segarra, the examiner assigned by the NY Fed to look into the "conflict of interest" policies at Goldman Sacks was fired for the very findings that she was hired to gather.

The article also indicates that some very powerful people within the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are former employees of Goldman Sacks and vice versa...


Check out the article at the link below and let us know what you think!

NY Fed Fired Examiner Who Took on Goldman


Thursday, October 17, 2013

Did You Know... (PI Historical Trivia 1)

Edgar Allan Poe, "the father of detective fiction", was the first to write about Private Investigators in 1841 in the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"