Corra Group, the premier service in background checking and corporate research will have the following schedule for the New Year’s Holiday.  On Thursday December 31, we will be closing at noon, Pacific Time, and will be closed all day January 1st, 2010. Happy New Year to All.   Looking forward to helping you with you background [...]

As the Co-Founder of Corra Group, a background checking service, I have watched with mixture of fascination and concern as more and more public service agencies are discovering many of their employment hires who have criminal records are going undetected.   This is true for State and public service agencies and in the healthcare sector as [...]

Ghana Banks are going to conduct background checks.  That is if Board Chairman of the ARB Apex Bank has his way.  According to  Graphic Ghana, Dr. Samuel Dufu has advised the directors of rural and community banks (RCBs) to run background checks on employment candidates in sensitive positions in order to avoid cyberfraud, armed robbery, [...]

Mikhail Prohkorov wants to buy a basketball team.  Who doesn’t?    But Mikhail Prokhorov is a billionaire, reportedly the richest man in Russia.  According to the New York Times, Prokhorov wants to buy 80% of the New Jersey Nets and 45% of the Barclay’s Center, in Brooklyn.   This is no small investment. So the N.B.A. has [...]