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NBA stars invested in startup facing fraud charges, what Intelligo uncovered about the CEO
In 2020, Roots Food Group Holdings was formed. The startup was designed to offer customized meals to cater to the increasingly diverse dietary...
Dirty Money Comes Clean: U.S. aims to tighten regulations to prevent money laundering, due diligence remains the anecdote
The U.S. Department of Treasury is making moves to step up its vetting requirements in a recent push to prevent money laundering amongst American financial...
Hidden Pitfalls: Due diligence gets to the bottom of blacklisted rebrands
Performing due diligence on the companies you choose to do business with is more important than ever. Like a Russian doll, many...
The ABC’s of Due Diligence – How Intelligo’s services protect your business
Whether you’re investing in the next big venture or hiring new employees, due diligence is an essential step in your business process. Protect your assets...
Fat Chance: Restaurant Company, Fat Brands, grilled over $47 million scam
Fat Brands which owns popular restaurant chains Johnny Rockets, Fatburger and Twin Peaks and its CEO, Andy Wiederhorn, have been criminally...
Airbnb, FOMO & Fraud — How Shamoon Rafiq Fooled Investors with Fugazi Stocks
In 2020, as COVID cases exploded off the charts and businesses braced for impact, tech stocks skyrocketed into...
Shohei Ohtani’s long time interpreter strikes out after foul sports gambling scandal breaks
Dodgers superstar pitcher and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani is making headlines beyond the bounds of...
Red Flags 101: What To Do When Your Intelligo Report Surfaces Red Flags
Anytime you run a background check or conduct due diligence on a potential investment or investment partner, there is a chance you will discover information that...
How to Read an Intelligo Report
If you’ve come to Intelligo, odds are you are looking to run a report to assess the risks associated with an upcoming investment, partnership, and/or key executive hire. Our reports...
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs): What Investors Need to Know
Due diligence is all about risk mitigation and comprehensive knowledge about who you consider connecting yourself with—financially and in other ways. While this...
How Intelligo Saw Trouble Coming For Bitwise — Months Before It Filed For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Like so many tech companies, Bitwise Industries had a grand vision: to transform underserved cities...
Bankruptcies, Background Checks, and Rudy Giuliani
A necessary step in making any executive hire or vetting potential investment partners is running a background check. Past behavior – especially involving financial or criminal...
Due Diligence Could Have Saved FinTech from Prashant Bhardwaj. Here’s How.
In early September, you might have caught a report in FinTech Business Weekly about the strange disappearance of Prashant Bhardwaj. Just seven months prior, Bhardwaj was..
How Investors Could Have Avoided A $2.7M Cherry-Picking Scheme
A Connecticut-based investment advisor agreed to pay almost $3 million to settle fraud charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission in September. On September 14, the SEC announced that it had reached a...
How Intelligo Would Have Picked Up On The Bernie Madoff Scandal 11 Months Before His Arrest
On December 11, 2008, financier Bernie Madoff was arrested by the FBI and charged with masterminding a long-running Ponzi scheme. Madoff would gain notoriety...
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