Ponzi Scheme Forensics, White Collar Crime Forensics, and Forensic Accounting in Seattle, WA
Expert Financial Investigations
We are all familiar with large-scale Ponzi schemes like the one made famous by Bernie Madoff, as well as other white collar crimes in Seattle, WA, and elsewhere. These financial crimes are serious and require the unique skills of a qualified forensic accounting firm like Sugarman & Company to get to the bottom of things. We provide expert financial investigations for a wide range of reasons and applications, including bankruptcy, damage calculations, insurance claims, professional malpractice, liquidation analysis, and more. As financial detectives, we will analyze complex financial data, prepare reports, trace funds, as well as provide expert testimony in courts.
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Comprehensive Forensic Services for Complex Financial Crimes
When there are complex financial crimes that we need to investigate, this isn’t just a few transactions that may involve offshore accounts. Issues like shell companies that are created to hide funds, the use of technology to help hide evidence of money laundering, using fake documents to make things appear legit, and more are all components of complex financial crimes. These issues call for experienced forensic accounting services in order to trace all of the blind alleys, dead ends, and redirections in order to uncover the network of people involved.
Forensic Accounting in Seattle, WA
Forensic accounting is a key component of legal cases involving financial crimes. Forensic accountants not only provide important reports that showcase how the money was moved around, but they will also provide expert testimony, often in layman’s terms, so that the jury, judge, and other parties in the court can understand what happened and how it happened. Forensic accounting can also explain important terms such as smurfing, trade-based laundering, and more.
Financial Forensics Experts in Seattle’s Trusted
Sugarman & Company has several decades of experience providing litigation support for both plaintiffs as well as defendants. The principal of the company is a CPA, CFE, CFF, and CIRA. Because forensic accounting requires accounting skills as well as investigative skills, it is a highly detailed effort that requires experienced members in Seattle, Washington. We have served in United States district courts as well as federal bankruptcy courts, which provides our clients with confidence in handling their case.
Financial crimes are serious business, and you need just as serious and dedicated professionals when it comes to financial accounting. Seattle is the most populated city in the Pacific Northwest area of the country. Logging was Seattle’s first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city’s population by almost 50,000 in the decade between 1990 and 2000.
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