Due Diligence and Business-Competitor Investigations
Due Process Investigations provides comprehensive due diligence and business‑competitor investigations designed to uncover risks that traditional financial or legal reviews often miss. Before entering a transaction, partnership, acquisition, or hiring decision, our investigators verify corporate legitimacy, analyze public records, review litigation history, and assess the reputation and background of key executives. We combine database research with on‑site investigation and human‑source inquiries to ensure the information is accurate, current, and complete. This approach allows us to identify hidden liabilities, integrity issues, operational red flags, and reputational risks that could impact your business. Our due diligence services help clients make informed ecisions with confidence, backed by verified facts and professional investigative insight.
Pre‑Employment Screening
Hiring the wrong employee can lead to fraud, theft, workplace violence, accidents, high turnover, and costly negligent‑hiring claims. Due Process Investigations offers thorough pre‑employment screening to help employers verify applicant information and reduce hiring risks. Our investigators confirm identity, employment history, education, criminal records, driving records, and other critical background details. We also provide specialized searches such as workers’ compensation history, credit reports, and sex‑offender registry checks. With federal law enforcement experience and on‑site researchers, we deliver clear, easy‑to‑read reports that help employers make safe, informed hiring decisions. Proper screening protects your workplace, strengthens compliance, and ensures you hire candidates who meet your standards.
Fraud and Internal Investigations
Whenever corporate or internet financial fraud is suspected, regardless of jurisdiction, companies hire Due Process to investigate suspicious circumstances impacting their organization. We conduct discreet fact-finding strategies, interviews of employees, identification of non-employee witnesses, electronic surveillance measures, identification of suspects, retrieval and analysis of critical documents and data to help your organization address the following types of cases:
- Internet Wire Fraud
- Unauthorized Transactions
- Embezzlement
- Unexplained Inventory Loss
- Product Diversion
- Fraudulent Vendor Invoices
- Mismanagement & Theft Of Intellectual Property
- Non-Compete Violations
- Whistle-blower Investigations
- Corruption Investigations
Trademark Counterfeiting Investigations
According to a report by the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition Inc., every year, trademark counterfeiting costs American businesses hundreds of billions of dollars. It is important to recognize that almost all trademark counterfeiting schemes are also responsible for generating cash for underworld organizations that may have direct ties to crimes like narcotic trafficking, money laundering and yes, even terrorism.
For this reason, it is recommended that private investigators be hired to conduct trademark counterfeit investigations in order to get in-depth trademark usage information.
Due Process Investigations Chicago has extensive experience with solving economic crime cases regarding counterfeit items such as bootleg clothing, movies, records, and cigarettes. Due Process Investigations combats counterfeit items by working closely with State and Local law enforcement agencies to aggressively pursue counterfeiters.
Quality Control/ Employee Theft Investigations
Employee theft is a growing challenge in today’s business environment, affecting companies of every size and industry. Theft can take many forms—stealing merchandise or supplies, falsifying time records, misusing sick leave, or even taking confidential information and intellectual property. When theft occurs, employers often feel violated and respond emotionally, which can make an already difficult situation worse. Treating employee theft as a business problem, rather than a personal one, is the key to resolving it quickly and preventing future losses.
Workplace theft costs far more than the value of the stolen asset. It disrupts operations, damages morale, reduces productivity, and creates confusion throughout the organization. An improper or rushed response can escalate the problem and expose the company to additional liability. You don’t have to accept theft as “the cost of doing business.” If you suspect an issue, Due Process Investigations Chicago provides the professional support needed to uncover the truth and protect your organization.
Our investigators conduct impartial, discreet employee‑theft investigations designed to identify facts, preserve evidence, and support appropriate corrective action. We review policies and procedures, interview employees, perform background checks, and deploy covert surveillance when necessary. When financial or digital irregularities are involved, we collaborate with forensic accountants and computer examiners to trace activity and document findings. Every investigation concludes with a clear, unbiased report that can be used internally or shared with law enforcement. If required, our investigators provide credible, unimpeachable courtroom testimony and recommendations for long‑term security improvements.
Undercover and Decoy Investigations
Sometimes the only way to find the truth is to pursue it at its source. Getting at the source, however, often requires subterfuge and disguise. Due Process investigators conduct long and short term commercial and retail undercover assignments to provide the information our clients need to run their businesses safely and profitably.
An undercover operative is trained to blend in with the workforce and may work from three to twelve months at a facility, depending on the information developed. He or she gradually becomes accepted by their fellow workers and in time gains their trust.
Over time, the agent looks for and reports on drug activity and drug sales, theft rings, acts of violence, intimidation, sabotage, grazing, abusive management, discrimination and sexual harassment to name just a few issues existing in the workplace.
