The Expert Podcast

• The U.S. as the primary destination for hidden assets - Most hidden assets are actually held right here in the United States, not in traditional offshore havens like Switzerland, Bermuda, or the Cayman Islands
• Why clients worry unnecessarily about offshore searches - Many people contact asset search professionals concerned about overseas accounts, but the vast majority of hidden assets are found onshore in U.S. bank accounts, real estate, trusts, and tax-advantaged financial facilities
• America surpasses notorious tax havens - According to investigative journalists and the Tax Justice Network's Financial Secrecy Index, the United States has become the world's largest enabler of financial secrecy, scoring higher than Switzerland, Cayman Islands, and Bermuda
• Convenience factor for U.S.-based scammers - It's much easier for domestic fraudsters to hide assets within the U.S. system rather than jump through hoops to move money offshore, especially when sufficient secrecy protection exists domestically
• Electronic accessibility of modern asset searching - Everything is electronic now, making it possible to find assets regardless of location without physically traveling to different countries
• Even sophisticated criminals get caught - Large-scale operators like Bernie Madoff (billions in assets) and Manuel Noriega (hundreds of millions) had their hidden assets discovered, proving that smaller-scale asset hiders with limited resources can't effectively hide from professional investigators
• The importance of specialized asset search expertise - Professional asset investigators who specialize in search and recovery are different from general investigators who do surveillance - it's a specialized field like medical or legal specializations
• Asset paper trails are discoverable - Assets create paper trails that can be followed even when not directly visible, leaving "footprints to the cave" where they're hidden
• International trend reversal - The flow has reversed - now European and Israeli investigators frequently contact U.S. asset search professionals to find money that their targets have hidden in American accounts
• Recovery is the ultimate goal - Asset searching is crucial for recovering losses from debts, judgments, scams, and Ponzi schemes - getting back money that rightfully belongs to victims.