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…

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…

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…

A well established weight loss clinic secured our services to conduct a background investigation on a female who had filed a complaint against their company. The female made one visit to the clinic and made a very strange allegation to the Medical Board that she had never seen a doctor during her one and only…

Houston, TX based Attorney Jeffery “Jeff” Greco represented a defendant who supervised construction crews in the Valley. The State alleged that the defendant cashed a number of employee checks keeping the money for himself. Gradoni Detectives Investigate We learned that the real story was the company was hiring undocumented workers issuing checks to phantom legal…

Attorney Yalila “Lee” Guerrero represented an individual charged with Possession of Controlled Substance as a result of a traffic stop. The Officer claimed when he ran the Plate of the vehicle prior to the traffic stop, it was not registered. After the vehicle was stopped and searched, the drugs were found. Investigator Wellmaker Gets Involved…

Attorney Joe Salinas represented a Defendant who was taken out of vehicle at a motel and told by Houston Police Department officers that he had an Outstanding Warrant. When the officers arrived in downtown Houston with the Defendant they found that the Warrant was no longer active and then informed the Defendant that they were…

Attorney Daphne Pattison represented an individual charged as a Co-Defendant with a number of other individuals with a Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine in Federal Court. Our assignment was to review the wire tapped conversations in order to determine if the State’s allegation about the Defendant’s participation in the conspiracy was accurate. Gradoni Detectives Investigate Federal…

Attorney Kenneth McCoy represented a Defendant charged with stealing thousands of pounds of bar copper from his employer and selling it, using his own identification, to a local scrap dealer. Gradoni & Associates Investigate We determined that the scrap dealer had listed the items purchased as wire, rather than bar copper. The Defendant refused to…

Attorney Travis Crowder represented a company that had hundreds of metal receptacles placed throughout the city for clothing donations. A number of the receptacles, valued at $1300 a piece, had been stolen from their placement sites. Gradoni Investigator’s Track & Surveil Operation Investigator Carey Wellmaker orchestrated an investigation which involved placing tracking devices on containers…