Selected Work
See how we make complex data and themes easy to follow and understand
Some of our work involves making charts and graphs into key instruments of fact enhancement, bringing the audience to a desired conclusion step-by-step. We often create progressive visualizations to use as demonstratives with a witness to help parse complicated schemes and reinforce the key components. Whether it’s revealing true ownership, tracking hundreds of transactions, reverse engineering shell company shenanigans, or myriad other schemes people have gotten up to, we present it clearly and accurately.
Peruse some of our case-winning examples below
Sizing up account activity
An analysis showing differing sizes of transactions by account. This summary highlighted where the majority of funds were coming from as well as showing the large number of depositing accounts. This visual approach highlights the most used accounts.
Conspiracy
Concealment
Structuring cash withdrawals
This is from a case that included numerous structuring charges. This summary view showed the volume of cash withdrawals never exceeding the $10,000 FinCen limit for triggering a currency transaction report.
Structuring
Fraud
Hiding funds source through intermediary
One element of this case was to establish the pattern of deposits and withdrawals into Mr. Johnsons accounts and show his net benefit for being the pass-through entity.
No items found.
Funds in an out 10k payment
A summary of deposits and structured payments meant to hide the source of the funds. In exchange for $10,000 a defendant used their account to receive large sums and then slowly parcel out withdrawals to other defendant accounts.
Concealment
Money laundering
Concealing income to avoid tax
A highly visual display from a fraud case showing the contrast of reported income vs. what was found during the investigation. The blue entries were self-reported, while the orange and red were uncovered by investigators. The contrast was staggering!
Fraud
Concealment
Tax evasion
Transactions graph
A summary of transactions from a business credit card that was used to fund an employee’s lavish lifestyle.
Tax fraud
Embezzlement
Hiding theft from investors
A summary of transactions that were disclosed to a board of investors as part of regular business and transactions that were concealed. There were some very unhappy investors.
Fraud
Concealment
Attempted tax fraud through claiming dependents
A summary of a tax preparer attempting to claim dependents for income tax filing. The defendant knew that child A and B were not theirs, nor claimable, but continued to try claiming them. Part of establishing the defendants willingness to help others cheat on their taxes, was showing they also participated. This was only a small part of many other schemes related to the defendant.
Fraud
Fund source breakdown
A political candidate was attempting to conceal the source of their campaign funds. This summary analysis showed the of the source of funds not reported in campaign finance documents.
Campaign contributions
Fraud
International drug trafficking using hawaladars
A Mexican cartel drug trafficking scheme using hawaladars in India, Canada, and the United States to transfer money between criminals across international boundaries.
Interactive
Drug trafficking
Hawala
Money laundering
Tax refund flow of funds
This analysis follows the disbursement of a large IRS check through many different accounts, only to see the funds delivered back to the original location in several smaller transactions.
Interactive
Fraud
Money laundering
Conspiracy
Hawala trade
A way to transfer value between parties, not explicitly illegal, but users of the system value the lack of transparency and receipts. Definitely not FinCen approved.
Interactive
Hawala
Money laundering
Concealment
Ownership concealment
A look at the layers of an attempted scheme to hide assets from seizure
Interactive
Concealment
Fraud
Tax evasion
Pharmacy and Medicare fraud schemes
An overview of two similar schemes showing how a defendant attempted to defraud Medicare for millions using fraudulent invoices through pharmacy services and moving the proceeds through shell companies
Interactive
Fraud
Pharmacy/Medical
Conspiracy
Intellectual property fraud
An overview of how a license for a pharmaceutical compound was used to conceal ownership and defraud Medicare
Interactive
Fraud
Intellectual property
Conspiracy
Kickbacks to an elected official
An overview of how an elected official accepted bribes and used their office to award contracts to certain businesses
Interactive
Kickbacks
Corruption
Bribery
Tricare fraud flow of funds
A very complex laundering scheme using proceeds from Tricare and insurance companies. This flow of funds show some of the defendants purchases with their ill-gotten gains as well as highlighting one distinct instance of both fraud and money laundering.
Interactive
Pharmacy/Medical
Fraud
One flow to rule them all
A small peek behind the curtain, this shows some of the materials we received from investigators in order to streamline each transaction to create a compelling visual story for the jury. A lot of things going on was made easier to digest by showing the whole, and then incrementally showing how each step added to the total.
Interactive
Money laundering
Conspiracy
Pharmacy/Medical
Circular transactions
An analysis showing transactions that occurred in a circular pattern as part of a scheme to generate fake invoices. Summarized, $3 million was sent in a circle enough times to generate $400 million in fake invoices
Interactive
Fraud
Conspiracy
Fake invoices