Attorney Skip Cornelius represented a young defendant who was charged, with another defendant, with the shooting death of a rival gang member at a club in Houston, TX. Gradoni & Associates Investigates We were able to identify and interview two wit­nesses who stated that the defendant was with them at the club when the shots…

Attorney Mary E. Conn and Attorney Jerald Graber represented a male charged with the shooting deaths of two individuals during a narcotic transac­tion in Houston, TX. The defendant was arrested at age 17, spending 4 years in the Harris County Jail before his case went to trial. The defendant had two different attorneys before Mary…

Attorney Katherine Scardino and Attorney Jimmy Phillips Jr. represented a lady charged with the shooting death of her husband. The defend­ant, her husband and her husband’s brother were returning home from an evening of heavy drinking. While in the drive­way to the residence the husband assaulted the defendant, smashing her head against the dashboard of…

Attorney Brett Podolsky represented an individual who had stopped by his rental home, which was occupied by his daughter who had a well-documented drug addiction problem, and found three males inside; two of which were in bed with his daughter. The defendant was enraged, telling all three of the males to leave the residence immediately.…

Attorney Skip Cornelius represented an ophthalmologist who was charged with murder. The ophthalmologist’s college son was having a party at their home when they caught an intruder in the backyard. The intruder was asked to leave and he did, without incident. Intruder Camps Bushes A short time later the same intruder was found hiding in…

My good friend and attorney has an office in the office park where we are located. On a weekend when his alarm system was not working he was burglarized, suffering a loss of computers, laptops and other valuable items. As usual. there were no identifiable sus­pects. My friend was frustrated that he did not have…

“The Billing Scam” Attorney Phillip Hilder, one of our most tenured clients, referred Gradoni & Associates to one of Houston’s largest commercial land development companies. The individual in charge of Company signage abruptly quit, taking the majority of the documents at her station with her which caused alarm and concern by Management. Our Investigation Begins…

Payroll Clerk – Busted An international engineering firm hired Gradoni & Associates to investigate a number of irregularities identified with vacation pay on a number of employees. It appeared that a number of vacation checks had been made payable to a payroll clerk who cashed the checks, using her own name and driver’s license, although…

Our Client had hired a local moving company to transport their belongings from one location in Ft. Bend County to another location in Harris County. When everything was unpacked the client was missing over $100,000 worth of silver along with two other items. The Owner of the moving company allowed Edna Velez and Chief Investigator…

Silver Theft Our client had secreted in a secured area a number of silver coins, valued at over $1,000,000. During the course of an inventory the business owner discovered that $200,000 worth of the coins were missing. J.J. Gradoni and Edna Velez initiated the investigation by interviewing the two individuals that had keys and access…