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Governor Vetoes PI Licensing - AFI-LLC Newsletter August 2020

News from Around our Profession
We are dedicated to sharing important news from clients, colleagues and friends about the
news - good and bad - from and about our profession. Our thanks to all who help
contribute. Feel free to email us with any news you have about you, your agency, your
association, and others...

Why Private Investigators are Vital in the #MeToo Era
(from PI Now – sent by Ryan Johnston – Colorado Private Investigations)
Time is up for sexual harassers and abusers who have previously thrived in a
culture of silence and blame, but time is also up for leadership in corporations and non-profit organizations that fail to
properly address the epidemic. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, corporations and nonprofits alike are
experiencing a shift in priorities with regards to internal risk assessment. Now executives are hypervigilant about
potential predators within their workforce. Internal investigations can be inherently flawed so leadership and human
resource employees are turning to private investigators to bring objective clarity to these crises.
- continued at www.pinow.com/articles/2927/why-private-investigators-are-vital-in-the-metoo-era

NEW Book: In Defense of the Innocent
How to Respond and Recover When Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault, or Other Serious Misconduct in Our New #MeToo
World Where Men are Guilty Until Proven
(Gene Ferraro, Forensic Pathways – CO / Author)
“Not all men are sexual predators, and indeed, some women are the tragic victims of violent sexual assault.
Nevertheless, a significant portion of our society has been convinced by a global social justice movement that most men
are, in fact, dangerous predators that should be relentlessly pursued and exposed whenever, and by whatever means,
possible. This book is intended to empower men and the many women who know them, love them, and/or believe that
men are citizens whose rights deserve protection under the law… considered INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.”

This book from a long-time friend and mentor, Gene Ferraro. This is a must have for all investigators involved in any
investigations, allegations, and charges of sexual assault and harassment.
- Details and ordering at https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Innocent-Respond-Recover-Misconduct/dp/0937309036

Mr. Homicide – Vernon Geberth – featured in “David Parker Ray The Worst Serial Killer” documentary
Friend and mentor, Retired NYPD Lt. Commander Vernon Geberth, author and teach of the renowned ‘Practical
Homicide Investigation’ was featured in this documentary.

“When it comes to applying practical homicide investigation techniques, tactics and clinical evaluation to serial murder
investigation David Parker Ray is at the top of the list as the most violent and most dangerous human predator who ever
existed . He was also the most valuable subject to analyze. His drawings, journal entries, his audio recordings and torture
materials coupled with the living witness descriptions basically validated clinical and academic research into the psyche
of these offenders and how they operate. Especially when David Ray personally articulated his state of mind as he
described his sexually sadistic attacks.”
- YouTube clip from the documentary at https://youtu.be/FJpAyAOois4

SEC Charges Trustify Inc. and Founder in $18.5 Million Offering Fraud
(Mark Gillespie – Gillespie Investigations of TX; and Dean Gluth – InfoMax Investigations of IL)
We have written on this a few times - warning of Trustify when it began soliciting PIs and had no consumer protections.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Trustify Inc., an online marketplace purportedly designed to
connect customers to a network of private investigators, and its founder and CEO Daniel Boice with fraudulently offering
and selling over $18.5 million of securities to more than 90 corporate and individual investors.
- Details at https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-162

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