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The “Kingpin Bums Ride to Hit” Investigation
Attorney John P. “Casey” Keirnan represented a defendant charged along with 3 other defendants with Capital Murder. The State alleged that the head of a local dope ring wanted to have an individual who provided information to the police killed. This individual recruited and paid a facilitator to take care of the hit. The facilitator…
Read MoreMarijuana Leads to Death, Gradoni Investigates
Attorney Katherine Scardino represented a young man who allowed an acquaintance to use his apartment to buy marijuana in Houston, TX. During the transaction, the acquaintance shot and killed one of the weed sellers in an attempt to rip them off. Our client was not present when this occurred, but the State of Texas alleged…
Read MoreRobbery Gone Wrong in Port Arthur, TX
Attorney Robert Loper AND Attorney Gerald Bourque represented a defendant charged with the shooting death of a nightclub owner during a robbery attempt that went bad in the parking lot of a club in Port Arthur, TX. The State had an impressive list of witnesses which included two jailhouse snitches who were going to testify…
Read MoreMale Prostitute Accused of “Laptop” Robbery
Attorney Skip Cornelius represented a male prostitute who allegedly ran up to the complainant’s car, robbing the complainant at gun point in the middle of the street and taking his laptop. J.J. Gradoni Investigates The defendant informed us that the complainant was actually one of his tricks, who had given him the laptop to hold…
Read MoreThe “Let’em Shoot at You First” Murder Investigation
Attorney Brett Podolsky represented a defendant charged with the shooting death of an individual in the parking lot of an after-hours club in Houston, TX. The State of Texas had witnesses that were allegedly going to testify that the defendant had shot the victim without provocation. The defendant claimed all along that the entire incident…
Read MoreThe Case of the Invoice Groomer
Thieves Amongst Us The Owner of a large Pet Grooming & Boarding Hotel for animals had become suspicious that one of the employees had been changing the deposit slips each morning and taking some of the cash collected. The Client provided us with the computer research that they had conducted, which indicated that a number…
Read MoreThe Case of the Chemical Plant Extortion Saint
Payroll Raised Fraud John Rhem, one of our Corporate Attorney clients, asked Gradoni & Associates to look into allegations from employees of a chemical plant that their Supervisor had extorted money from them in return for favorable reviews so the employees could receive pay raises. J.J. Hits The Ground Running Chief Investigator J.J. Gradoni spent…
Read MoreThe Case of the Concrete Thief
Our firm was hired by a concrete company who had suspicions that one of their drivers was diverting loads dedicated to a client and dropping them at locations where the loads were sold for personal gain. One of the reasons that the perpetrator was able to divert a load was due to the fact that…
Read MoreNew Cases
During the month of February 2015 we received three new Death Penalty cases from Defense Attorneys Katherine Scardino and Jimmy Phillips. Escaped Brazos County Inmates The first case is a seven-year-old case being tried in Brazos County on a change of venue. Two inmates attempted to escape from a work project in a field where…
Read MoreThe Expeditious Service Case
Attorney Kate McConnico represented an individual who had family law matters in Harris County, TX and Atlanta, GA with his ex-wife. Gradoni & Associates’ investigators received a phone call on a Thursday morning from Kate’s Client who stated that the local Constables were unable to serve papers on his former wife, who lived in an…
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