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Corra Group Offers Background Checks to Investigators and Attorneys

Corra Group has expanded its services to investigative groups and to law firms. With the ever changing environment creating the need for increased scrutiny, Corra Group offers these segments extended year county records searches, corporate business credit reports, and expanded research for discovering, tax liens, fixtures, and judgments held against a corporation.

“It’s a changing environment out there,” said Gordon Basichis, Corra Group Co-Founder. “The background checks that were not deemed all that necessary, since the Recession, have become essentials. And then with the disturbing social issues on the increase, investigators, in order to get in front of the perpetrators, they must search out his background.

For the entire public relations release….http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10470161.htm

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Corra Group Offers Extended Year Background Checks

Corra Group has expanded its services for extended year background checks in order to meet the requirements of industries in need of conducting background searches beyond the typical seven year framework. In addition to its employment screening service, Corra Group will conduct county criminal records and county civil records retrievals from every courthouse in the United States.

“We have identified a need where certain industries are looking to conduct the kind of vetting that extends well beyond the typical seven year framework,” said Gordon Basichis, Corra Group Co-Founder. “Private equity groups and financial investment concerns before getting involved in co-ventures and loans, will often want to conduct a more thorough background search of the principals of the companies with whom they are about to engage.

“The same holds true for attorneys and security investigators,” said Basichis. “Such business entities as law firms and private investigators are looking to conduct background checks that can extend to all records available within a particular county courthouse. In some cases, we have requests for as much as a thirty year extended records search. Corra Group has the capability of retrieving any available records, regardless of when the case was first filed. We can obtain the records themselves, and we can also provide the file copies of those records for a more detailed review of the court case.”

For the entire press release click on this link.

 

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Civil Searches as Background Checks for Business Research

There is a $750 Million theme park being planned in Spring Hill, TN, which is the Nashville area.   A background check revealed that the man behind the proposed theme park owes at lest $750 Thousand in judgments.   According to an article in the Reynolds Center, the principal behind this planned theme park, with its two hotels,  a sports arena, and the inevitable wter slide, owes nearly three fourth of a million in judgments.

In the article, which was picked up from the Nashville Business Journal, writer Annie Johnson, urges those interested in business ventures or deals where civil judgments could be a major concern if not a deal breaker, urges the usage of Pacer and Lexis Nexis.   This is all good.   But to really get to the issue of state and not federal cases, sometimes the mere listing of judgments and the figures are not enough.  Sometimes it is important to conduct county civil court records searches as part of your due diligence program.

County Civil Searches are hand searches, meaning they are pulled by hand from the county courthouse.    Of course, one must be aware of the county courthouse where the records are located.   The initial judgment search should tell you that much.   And then, for business research, is is a matter of first pulling the records, and then if the situation warrants, pulling court copies as well.

For background checks, using the free sites, the Google, Yahoo, etc, are good to a point.   The databases are often most helpful.   But to really get into the meat of it all, sometimes it is necessary to run the county civil records searches.   It is, after all, a relatively a modest investment for things like $750 million theme parks and even lesser business ventures.

There is a $750 Million theme park being planned in Spring Hill, TN, which is the Nashville area.   A background check revealed that the man behind the proposed theme park owes at lest $750 Thousand in judgments.   According to an article in the Reynolds Center, the principal behind this planned theme park, with its two hotels,  a sports arena, and the inevitable wter slide, owes nearly three fourth of a million in judgments.

In the article, which was picked up from the Nashville Business Journal, writer Annie Johnson, urges those interested in business ventures or deals where civil judgments could be a major concern if not a deal breaker, urges the usage of Pacer and Lexis Nexis.   This is all good.   But to really get to the issue of state and not federal cases, sometimes the mere listing of judgments and the figures are not enough.  Sometimes it is important to conduct county civil court records searches as part of your due diligence program.

County Civil Searches are hand searches, meaning they are pulled by hand from the county courthouse.    Of course, one must be aware of the county courthouse where the records are located.   The initial judgment search should tell you that much.   And then, for business research, is is a matter of first pulling the records, and then if the situation warrants, pulling court copies as well.

For background checks, using the free sites, the Google, Yahoo, etc, are good to a point.   The databases are often most helpful.   But to really get into the meat of it all, sometimes it is necessary to run the county civil records searches.   It is, after all, a relatively a modest investment for things like $750 million theme parks and even lesser business ventures.

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Tips for Background Checking Against Corporate Espionage

Corporate espionage has been a growing concern for various industries.   Especially with this economic downturn, when businesses are doing all they can  do to survive, the last thing they need is theft of their proprietary data.   Corporate espionage can come from within and without.   There are foreign concerns that are looking to save the cost of research and development by stealing someone else’s proprietary data.    But don’t think the interlopers only originate from China and other foreign countries.   There are domestic companies who are also looking to get the edge on their competition by stealing their sensitive information.

Some who practice corporate espionage will do through by utilizing technology.   They will attempt to hack into the targeted companies system and retrieve the information from there.  Others will resort to the more traditional form, the old fashioned way.  They will pay someone to steal it for them.  More often than not, that someone is a current employee.   In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, a former employee at Akamai Technologies,  Inc.  was arrested and charged with the illegal passing of information to a foreign agent.  According to the article, the suspect may have been passing confidential data for more than eighteen months.    The accused now faces some twenty years in jail.

But if he is guilty, then the damage has been done.  Recently it came to light that certain companies have had sensitive data pilfered that can cost them their first in field standings in the industries where they are involved.    It is often mundane stuff, a certain chemical used to enhance the product, a certain process they use for better results than competitors.   At first blush the stolen material may seem innocuous and incidental.  But six months later when competitors are using the same chemicals, the same process, then the consequences are fully realized.

When staffing, I would love to say there are background checks an employer can utilize in its employment screening program to prevent against corporate theft and corporate espionage.  There are, but with this type of thing there are no guarantees.   We discovered recently that it often pays to run a full background check, including employment verifications, on your job applicant.    If he worked jobs at related industries and didn’t stay long, this may be a red flag.    Seeing signs that an employee, other than a contractor got the job, worked awhile, and then left in what is an unreasonable time frame should arouse suspicions.   Likewise, when you run the employment candidate’s social security trace and see he has worked in cities where your competitors are heavyhearted, you, the employer, may wish to look further into the applicant’s job history.

If there is a open space where the applicant was unemployed but was residing in the city where you competition is located, you may ask for further explanation as to what that candidate was really doing at the time.   Additionally, it pays to check country criminal records, the most accurate of criminal records, and county civil records, to ascertain if your candidate was charged with any crimes or sued for misappropriation of information.

Check his Motor Vehicle Driving Record for any signs of substance abuse.   As part of your employment screening, you may want to check his credit report for signs of current or imminent financial difficulty.    I realize conducting employment credit reports can be an unpopular subject right now, replete with accusations of bias,and that corporate theft is not nearly the same hot button issue, but it may be necessary to consider any legal option available.

Writing about corporate espionage may seem a bit overwrought.   Some may find it a little too dramatic.  But ask the directors at Akamai Technologies how they may feel about it, or those at the two companies where some of their most sensitive data may have been stolen either by interlopers or past employees.   Ask them if they are taking it lightly and are now performing the due diligence available as part of their employment screening effort.    I am sure they can offer a very different perspective.