Areas of Investigation
We investigate and expose prosecutorial misconduct across all major areas of criminal law where innocent people are falsely charged.
Federal Criminal Charges
Federal investigations by the FBI, DOJ, and other agencies including mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, and RICO violations.
IRS & Tax Fraud Allegations
Tax evasion, failure to file, fraudulent returns, and criminal tax investigations by the IRS Criminal Investigation Division.
White Collar Crime Defense
Securities fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, bank fraud, and corporate criminal liability investigations.
Public Corruption & Bribery
Allegations against public officials, government contractors, and those accused of bribing officials.
Healthcare & Medicare Fraud
Investigations by HHS-OIG involving billing fraud, kickbacks, and false claims in the healthcare industry.
Theft, Fraud & Property Crimes
Grand theft, burglary, arson, forgery, and property crime allegations where defendants face significant penalties.
Criminal Appeals & Post-Conviction
Wrongful conviction appeals, habeas corpus petitions, and post-conviction relief for the unjustly convicted.
SEC & Financial Investigations
Securities violations, insider trading, market manipulation, spoofing, and enforcement actions by the SEC and FINRA.
Naked Short Selling Investigations
Investigations into illegal naked short selling, failure to deliver shares, and manipulative trading practices targeting companies.
Brokerage Firms & Compliance Officers
Defense of brokerage firms, compliance officers, and firm owners facing regulatory actions, audits, and enforcement proceedings.
Hedge Fund Investigations
Investigations into hedge fund practices, short selling schemes, coordinated trading attacks, and market manipulation.
Shareholder Management & Reputation
Protecting shareholders from coordinated attacks, reputation damage, stock manipulation, and non-delivery of shares.
Cryptocurrency Fraud & Scams
ICO fraud, rug pulls, Ponzi schemes, and fraudulent token offerings targeting investors in the digital asset space.
Crypto Exchange & Platform Defense
Defense of cryptocurrency exchanges, DeFi platforms, and operators facing SEC, CFTC, or DOJ enforcement actions.
Crypto Money Laundering Allegations
Accusations of using cryptocurrency for money laundering, unlicensed money transmission, and BSA/AML violations.
NFT & Digital Asset Disputes
Investigations involving NFT fraud, digital asset theft, smart contract manipulation, and blockchain-related crimes.
Civil Rights Violations
Government overreach, unlawful seizures, constitutional violations, and civil rights infringements by authorities.
Wrongful Termination & Employment
Unjust dismissal, workplace retaliation, whistleblower protection, and employment discrimination cases.
Defamation & Reputation Defense
False accusations, libel, slander, and malicious prosecution that damages personal or professional reputation.
Asset Forfeiture & Seizure
Civil asset forfeiture, wrongful property seizures, and recovery of assets taken by government agencies.
Facing charges in any of these areas? We can help expose the truth.
How We Help
Detailed scenarios and solutions for each area of investigation.
Wrongful Termination Investigators
Focus: wrongful termination defenseAn employee is abruptly fired after reporting safety violations to HR. The employer claims poor performance, but the employee has years of positive reviews and was never warned. Management has selectively quoted emails out of context and retroactively 'papered' the termination file to justify the decision.
- ›Termination vs. retaliation vs. discrimination—why the real story often gets distorted
- ›What decision-makers weigh: documented performance, consistency, protected activity timing, comparator employees
- ›Defenses that matter: legitimate business reason, documented performance issues, timeline contradictions
- ›Where misconduct shows up: selective screenshots, missing context, inconsistent policy enforcement
The U.S. Observer builds a clean chronology, preserves and organizes documents, creates a contradiction log, and develops a witness outreach plan. We produce a 'what's missing' checklist and a concise memo with exhibit pack for your legal counsel.
Grand Theft Defense
Focus: grand theft defenseA store manager is charged with grand theft based on inventory discrepancies and the testimony of a disgruntled coworker. The prosecution has overvalued the alleged stolen goods to elevate charges, and loss-prevention footage has gaps that conveniently exclude exculpatory moments.
- ›Threshold values vary by state—common overcharging patterns prosecutors use
- ›What the state must prove: taking, lack of consent, intent, identity, and accurate value
- ›Defenses that win: mistaken identity, lack of intent, claim of right, consent, value disputes
- ›Investigative gaps: suggestive lineups, omitted footage, 'value inflation,' coerced statements
The U.S. Observer creates a timeline and evidence map, tracks missing surveillance footage, builds a contradiction matrix, and constructs an alternative narrative. We prepare a counsel-ready memo with supporting exhibits.
Crypto Scam Investigation
Focus: crypto scam investigatorAn investor loses significant funds to a sophisticated rug pull operation. The perpetrators used fake exchange interfaces, impersonation of legitimate projects, and 'recovery scam' follow-ups targeting victims. Chat logs and wallet addresses are scattered, and the victim is unsure how to preserve evidence before it disappears.
- ›Common crypto scam types: rug pulls, impersonation, fake exchanges, phishing/wallet drains, romance scams
- ›What must be shown: who controlled wallets/contracts, representations made, victim reliance, flow of funds
- ›Investigation angles: on-chain tracing, off-chain communications, domain provenance, social proof patterns
- ›Common failures: missing timestamps, incomplete wallet lists, paying 'recovery' scammers
The U.S. Observer structures the evidence packet, creates funds-flow diagrams, develops attribution leads, and provides preservation instructions. We prepare a report template for counsel and authorities, partnering with blockchain forensics experts.
Civil Rights Violation Investigators
Focus: civil rights violation investigatorA citizen is subjected to an unlawful traffic stop that escalates into a warrantless search and coerced confession. Bodycam footage contradicts the officer's report, but critical segments are 'missing' or uploaded late. The prosecutor relies on fabricated evidence and omits exculpatory facts from warrant affidavits.
- ›Common violations: illegal stops, unlawful searches, coerced confessions, excessive force, false arrest
- ›What must be shown: reasonableness, probable cause, warrant requirements, voluntariness, due process
- ›Pressure points: lack of probable cause, warrant defects, Miranda issues, bodycam contradictions
- ›Misconduct red flags: omitted facts in affidavits, inconsistent reports, missing video, coercive tactics
The U.S. Observer tracks record collection, builds a timeline with contradiction map, performs video-to-report comparisons, and develops a witness canvass plan. We prepare a counsel memo with a comprehensive exhibit binder.
Federal Criminal Defense
Focus: federal criminal defenseA business owner receives a target letter from the DOJ after an FBI investigation based on informant testimony. The grand jury has returned an indictment for mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy—charges built on circumstantial evidence and cooperating witnesses seeking immunity deals.
- ›What federal cases look like: agency subpoenas, target letters, grand jury proceedings, 'proffer' concepts
- ›What the government must prove: intent, knowledge, materiality, conspiracy requirements
- ›Defense themes: lack of intent, reliance on professionals, informant credibility, selective enforcement
- ›Prosecutorial issues: Brady/Giglio failures, undisclosed witness benefits, missing 302s
The U.S. Observer builds a case chronology, creates an evidence map, develops an inconsistency matrix, and prepares witness/interview packets for counsel. We provide a 'what the government will argue' brief and expert referrals.
SEC Investigation Support
Focus: SEC investigation defenseA financial advisor receives an SEC document request following suspicious trading activity flagged by market surveillance. The investigation focuses on communications, trading records, and internal controls—with regulators cherry-picking chat excerpts and ignoring compliance measures already in place.
- ›What SEC investigations involve: document requests, testimony, trading records, internal controls
- ›What the SEC focuses on: material statements, trading intent, disclosure timing, supervision
- ›Defense themes: scienter challenges, materiality disputes, reliance defenses, policy adherence
- ›Overreach risks: cherry-picked communications, ignoring controls, mixing timelines, assuming motive
The U.S. Observer builds a control narrative, creates detailed timelines, indexes documents, performs gap analysis, and prepares an exhibit pack with counsel memo. We coordinate with expert compliance reviewers.
Naked Short Selling Investigators
Focus: naked short selling investigatorA publicly traded company experiences mysterious stock price collapse despite positive fundamentals. FTD data shows unusual clustering, borrow costs spike without explanation, and coordinated media attacks coincide with trading volume anomalies. The company suspects coordinated naked short selling by hedge funds.
- ›What naked short claims mean: FTDs, locate/borrow issues, settlement failures, coordinated behavior
- ›What must be shown: pattern evidence, timing, counterparties, settlement indicators, coordination proof
- ›Investigation angles: FTD clustering, threshold securities, borrow cost anomalies, media coordination
- ›Common misdirection: normal volatility framed as manipulation, missing dilution controls
Using our proprietary AI-driven USO Arbiter system, the U.S. Observer identifies failures-to-deliver and phantom shares. We create a structured 'evidence brief' with event-study timelines and exhibit packs for counsel and regulators.
Post-Conviction Relief
Focus: post-conviction reliefA wrongfully convicted individual has exhausted traditional appeals but new evidence has emerged: a recanting witness, DNA that excludes them, or Brady material that was never disclosed. Courts refuse to consider the evidence, and the person faces decades more in prison for a crime they didn't commit.
- ›What post-conviction relief involves: appeals vs. collateral review, innocence-focused case review
- ›High-impact grounds: Brady/Giglio failures, false testimony, junk science, faulty ID, coerced confessions
- ›What must be shown: new evidence, constitutional violations, ineffective assistance of counsel
- ›Misconduct patterns: tunnel vision, undisclosed deals, suppressed leads, contaminated lineups
The U.S. Observer rebuilds case files, creates discrepancy matrices, tracks missing discovery, and develops witness plans. We provide expert referrals and prepare counsel-ready memos with supporting exhibits.
Public Corruption Investigators
Focus: public corruption investigatorsA government contractor faces bribery allegations driven by political rivalry. The investigation relies on unreliable cooperators seeking reduced sentences, selective recordings edited out of context, and assumptions of quid pro quo where none exists. Career and reputation hang in the balance.
- ›What allegations look like: bribery, kickbacks, procurement manipulation, 'pay-to-play'
- ›What must be shown: quid pro quo, intent, official act linkage, witness credibility
- ›Defense themes: lawful conduct, no quid pro quo, unreliable cooperators, document context
- ›Misconduct red flags: hidden cooperator incentives, selective recordings, inconsistent timelines
The U.S. Observer creates a timeline and money-flow map, reconstructs document context, develops a contradiction log, and prepares a counsel memo with exhibit pack.
Stock Manipulation Investigators
Focus: stock manipulationA company's stock experiences wild price swings coordinated with social media campaigns and suspicious order-book activity. Competing interests spread false rumors, and time-synced messaging between traders suggests a coordinated pump-and-dump or short-and-distort scheme.
- ›What manipulation includes: pump-and-dump, spoofing/layering, wash trading, short-and-distort
- ›What must be shown: pattern + intent indicators, coordination, causation windows
- ›Investigation angles: order/volume anomalies, time-synced messaging, beneficial ownership clues
- ›Common pitfalls: confusing volatility with deception, ignoring news catalysts
The U.S. Observer builds an event timeline, creates an evidence brief with transparent methodology, and prepares exhibit packs for counsel, regulators, and investors.
White Collar Defense Investigators
Focus: white collar defenseA corporate executive faces charges for securities fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering following an internal power struggle. The accusations are based on mischaracterized business transactions, with prosecutors using selective document excerpts and ignoring authorization chains.
- ›What charges involve: fraud, embezzlement, laundering, bank issues—complex records and narratives
- ›What must be proved: intent, knowledge, material misstatements, loss, causation, conspiracy scope
- ›Defense themes: lack of intent, business dispute vs. crime, reliance on professionals, witness credibility
- ›Overreach patterns: selective excerpts, mischaracterized accounting, undisclosed witness incentives
The U.S. Observer creates transaction timelines, indexes documents, builds a contradiction matrix, and performs a 'what a jury will hear' narrative test. We prepare counsel memos with exhibits.
Crypto Money Laundering Defense
Focus: crypto money launderingA crypto business owner faces money laundering accusations for processing transactions through mixers and layering protocols. The government claims 'willful blindness' despite the operator's robust compliance program and lack of knowledge about the funds' origins.
- ›What allegations involve: mixers, layering, proceeds, 'willful blindness,' transmission issues
- ›What must be shown: knowledge/intent, source of funds, control, compliance expectations
- ›Defense themes: lack of knowledge, legitimate source-of-funds, compliance evidence, attribution errors
- ›Overreach risks: wallet misattribution, assuming intent from tools used, ignoring compliance steps
The U.S. Observer creates a funds-flow map, develops attribution leads, builds a compliance narrative pack, and prepares an exhibit binder with memo for counsel.
Medicare Fraud Defense Investigators
Focus: Medicare fraud defenseA healthcare provider faces HHS-OIG investigation for alleged upcoding and false claims. The audit uses flawed statistical sampling, ignores clinical context, and cherry-picks charts while assuming billing errors equal intent to defraud.
- ›What allegations look like: billing patterns, upcoding, medical necessity, kickbacks, false claims
- ›What must be shown: intent vs. error, falsity, materiality, causation, documentation requirements
- ›Defense themes: documentation supports necessity, coding complexity, reliance on billers, sampling weaknesses
- ›Overreach patterns: cherry-picked charts, ignoring clinical context, flawed sampling, hindsight bias
The U.S. Observer creates a chart-to-billing crosswalk, builds timelines, supports sampling critique, develops a compliance narrative pack, and prepares counsel memos with exhibits.
Tax Evasion Defense Investigators
Focus: tax evasion defenseAn entrepreneur faces IRS criminal investigation for alleged underreporting and offshore account issues. The accusations stem from reliance on a negligent tax preparer and complex business structures—not willful evasion. The government assumes gaps in records equal criminal intent.
- ›What allegations claim: underreporting, offshore accounts, deduction issues, cash business, failure-to-file
- ›What must be proved: willfulness, tax due/owing, affirmative act, knowledge
- ›Defense themes: lack of willfulness, reliance on preparer, records chaos vs. intent, classification disputes
- ›Overreach risks: assuming intent from gaps, ignoring preparer role, misreading cashflow
The U.S. Observer reconstructs documents, creates a chronology of filings, builds an intent-rebuttal narrative, and prepares an exhibit pack for counsel.
NFT Fraud Defense Investigators
Focus: NFT fraudAn NFT creator faces fraud allegations after a project fails due to market conditions. Accusations include fake mints, wash trading, and 'utility' misrepresentation—but the creator had legitimate intentions, transparent disclosures, and the market simply collapsed.
- ›What NFT fraud includes: fake mints, stolen art, wash trading, phishing drains, utility misrepresentation
- ›What must be shown: control of wallet/contract, deceptive claims, victim reliance, identity links
- ›Investigation angles: contract deployer attribution, wallet clusters, marketplace logs, promo-to-dump timelines
- ›Common pitfalls: not preserving Discord/Telegram, incomplete wallet set, falling for 'recovery' scams
The U.S. Observer creates an evidence packet, develops funds-flow diagrams, builds attribution leads, and prepares a counsel-ready brief with exhibits.
Defamation Defense Investigators
Focus: defamation defenseA business owner's reputation is destroyed by a coordinated online smear campaign. Anonymous accounts post false accusations, edited video clips go viral, and bots amplify the attacks. The defamers delete posts before they can be preserved, and the victim loses major contracts.
- ›What defamation involves: libel vs. slander, false statements as fact, reputation and financial damages
- ›What must be shown: falsity, publication, identification, harm, fault standard
- ›Response themes: prove falsity with records, pattern of malice, identify anonymous posters, show damages
- ›Bad-faith signals: coordinated smear, edited clips, selective quotes, bot amplification
The U.S. Observer preserves evidence, develops attribution leads, builds a timeline with contradiction map, documents damages, and prepares a counsel memo with exhibits.
Civil Asset Forfeiture Defense Investigators
Focus: civil asset forfeiture defenseA property owner has cash and vehicles seized during a traffic stop despite no criminal charges being filed. The government claims the assets are connected to drug trafficking based on a K-9 alert and 'large amount of cash'—ignoring legitimate business documentation.
- ›What civil forfeiture is: property seized based on alleged connection, tight deadlines for response
- ›What must be shown: nexus/connection, ownership, 'innocent owner' concepts
- ›Defense themes: legitimate source-of-funds, innocent owner, disproportionality, procedural defects
- ›Overreach risks: assumptions from cash amounts, rushed seizure documentation, affidavit misstatements
The U.S. Observer reconstructs source-of-funds, creates a document pack with timeline, builds a contradiction log, and prepares a counsel memo with exhibit binder.
FINRA Enforcement Action Defense
Focus: FINRA enforcement actionA brokerage firm faces FINRA enforcement action based on alleged supervisory failures. The regulator uses selective sample reviews, ignores the firm's remediation efforts, and conflates policy gaps with intent—seeking to make an example of the firm despite industry-standard practices.
- ›What FINRA actions involve: audits/exams, information requests, supervision and trading themes
- ›What FINRA examines: WSPs, supervision, customer communications, suitability, AML, recordkeeping
- ›Defense themes: show controls, demonstrate supervision, isolate root cause, highlight remedial steps
- ›Overreach risks: selective samples, ignoring remediation, conflating policy gaps with intent
The U.S. Observer indexes documents, builds a supervision narrative, performs gap analysis, and prepares an exhibit pack with counsel memo and readiness checklist.
Crypto Exchange Compliance Investigators
Focus: crypto exchange complianceA cryptocurrency exchange operator faces regulatory scrutiny from the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ. The evolving regulatory framework means charges are applied retroactively to activities that were previously unregulated—and the operator's compliance program is dismissed as 'paper policies.'
- ›What compliance scrutiny looks like: SEC/CFTC/DOJ risk areas, onboarding, custody, marketing, AML
- ›What reviewers expect: clear controls, monitoring, documentation, escalation, training, audit trails
- ›Risk-reduction themes: KYC/AML maturity, sanctions screening, market surveillance, vendor controls
- ›Common gaps: paper policies not followed, missing logs, unclear ownership, weak escalation
The U.S. Observer performs gap assessment, builds a control narrative, creates an evidence binder, develops a remediation roadmap, and prepares a counsel/compliance-ready summary.
Hedge Fund Market Manipulation Investigators
Focus: hedge fund market manipulationA publicly traded company alleges that a hedge fund is conducting coordinated short-and-distort attacks. The fund's trades are time-synced with negative media placements, and suspicious borrow/locate anomalies suggest naked shorting. The company's shareholders suffer massive losses.
- ›What allegations involve: coordinated trading, short-and-distort, rumor campaigns, cross-account timing
- ›What must be shown: pattern indicators, coordination, deceptive conduct, causation windows
- ›Investigation angles: time-synced trading + messaging, borrow/locate anomalies, media campaign timing
- ›Common pitfalls: attributing normal liquidity to manipulation, missing catalyst context
The U.S. Observer creates an evidence brief, builds an event timeline with transparent methodology, and prepares exhibit packs for counsel and regulators.
In each scenario, the U.S. Observer stands as a staunch defender of the falsely accused and victims of institutional injustice. By leveraging investigative journalism, proprietary tools, and relentless advocacy, the U.S. Observer ensures accountability, exposes prosecutorial misconduct, and upholds justice for those who have been wrongfully targeted.