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LexisNexis Database Helps Feds In Collecting Taxes
April 03, 2014 - Identity thieves are stealing billions of dollars a year through fraudulent tax refunds—and the IRS isn't the only target. The 43 states that collect an income tax are also being flooded with these bogus returns. A report from the Treasury inspector general for tax administration estimated that fraudulent tax refunds resulting from identity theft totaled about $3.6 billion for the 2011 tax filing season. That's down by $1.6 billion from the previous year due to better detection, but the report says the ongoing problem creates "devastating consequences for taxpayers" that "erodes their confidence" in the federal tax system. At the state level, the resources simply aren't there to tackle this p...
Federal Reserve's Chair Yellen's Real-Life Examples of Unemployed Omit Criminal Records
April 02, 2014 - In her first speech as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen told the stories of three people who had trouble finding work to illustrate her concern...
Top Ten Background Check Trends for 2014 Released by Employment Screening Resources
March 26, 2014 - Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) has announced the release of the 7th Annual ‘ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends for 2014’ se...
Ohio Couple Volunteer To Organize Court Records
March 24, 2014 - The haphazardly stashed court records sitting in the Washington County Courthouse attic are getting put in order through a slow process of voluntee...
Peer References Require Special Tactics
March 20, 2014 - by Craig Caddell The Joint Commission defines a peer as someone from the same discipline with essentially equal qualifications. To be able to p...
Study Shows Record Number Of Criminal Exonerations
March 19, 2014 - The number of exonerations of people wrongfully convicted of a crime in the United States rose to a record 87 last year — that’s 87 peo...
Woman Forged Criminal Record Clearance Because She Was In A Hurry
March 17, 2014 - You've got to love this: Woman Forged Criminal Record Clearance Because She Was In A Hurry A Warwick woman today admitted she forged...
Providing Private Database-Only Criminal Records
March 11, 2014 - Providing Private Database-Only Criminal Records I’m telling you, every time I run across a CRA that is providing private database-onl...
Craig Caddell's Verification Tips
March 07, 2014 - Language! Language! Language! You know the old saying “Location! Location! Location!” as it applies to restaurant success or failur...
BRB Public Record Update
March 05, 2014 - San Luis Obispo Superior Court (CA) Cuts Criminal Record Services With severe cutbacks in the budget and loss of...
Les Rosen's Corner - California Law
March 04, 2014 - New California Law Significantly Impacts Use of Past Criminal Records A new law in California that took effect January 1, 2014 – Senate Bill...
Hiring People You Won't Have to Fire
February 28, 2014 - I should have fired my first employee long before I did. If there was one area where my inexperience really showed when I started running my ow...
Big Data Says You Should Hire Criminals
February 26, 2014 - Evolv, a leader in big data workforce optimization, has discovered that criminals can make better employees than anyone else. Evolv calculates...
Firefighter Says Background System Abused
February 20, 2014 - A top official in the Buffalo Fire Department is accused of misusing the county’s criminal background check system to improperly snoop on at...
Criminal record searches fall short and all that stuff
February 18, 2014 - Bet you don't know how at least a third of your USA domestic and international searches are being done. Bet that that you probably don't kn...
Top Executive at Security-Check Firm USIS Resigns
February 14, 2014 - A top executive at the company that performed the most recent background check of former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden resigned after he w...
OPM brings background investigation reviews in-house
February 11, 2014 - The Office of Personnel Management has decided that final quality reviews for background investigations will be conducted by government employees &...
Craig Caddell's Verification Tips
February 04, 2014 - Finding Good Contact Information Job applicants are notorious for providing incorrect contact information for past employers. Some creative app...
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