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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

Have you been the victim of fraud?
Are you involved in a civil or criminal litigation or does it look like things are headed that way?
Have you fallen out with someone over money?
Is your spouse hiding money?
Is an executor or trustee embezzling money?
Do you think your business partner is stealing from you?
Have you been accused of fraud but there is more to the story?
Is your spouse not disclosing assets or income?
Have you been the victim of investment fraud?
Is your bookkeeper "cooking the books?"
Did a relationship not work out and now there are issues of alimony, child support and property division?
Has your stolen money been moved into off-shore bank accounts?
SGI expert witness forensic accountant Saul Gordon works on civil (including family law) cases as well as on criminal cases.
Is your business partner using your business to pay for the expenses of their own secret competing business?
Do you need help quantifying your losses whether from fraud or otherwise?
Have you been accused of fraud civilly and you want to clear your name?
Are you having a hard time believing that someone you trusted stole from you?
Is the fraud stressing you out and the numbers making your head spin? Call SGI - Saul knows how to handle them.
Have you been wrongfully accused of committing fraud?
Is your trusted, long-time employee stealing from you?
Is your spouse diverting marital funds to an affair?
Perhaps you even stumbled upon part of the fraud, but is there more?
How many different parts of your business were pilfered by a fraudster manager?
Did you unwittingly invest in a Ponzi scheme?
Did you know? You do not have to be in litigation to engage the services of a forensic accountant.
Did you commit fraud but it wasn't as much as you are being accused of?
Do you have suspicions that an aging relative is the victim of elder financial abuse?
Is your business making good sales but there is never enough money in the bank?
Are you being given evasive answers by the person you suspect?
Do the investment returns promised to you sound too good to be true?
Saul has worked on cases involving fraud by family members and trusted friends. It can and does happen.
Has the fraudster created complexity and confusion to hide their activities?
Did you know? Trust is not an internal control.
Has your signature been forged or your identity stolen as part of the fraud?
Do you know what the red flags of fraud are?
Is someone stealing from your business?
Are you working hard making money with nothing to show for it?
Is the person who is being overly-aggressive when asked a question committing fraud?
Has a trustee mismanaged money?
Is your spouse using their business to hide assets or income?
Are you feeling stuck, embarrassed, foolish or overwhelmed by the fraud situation? Call Saul today for a free and confidential consultation.
Are accounting/financial records being falsified?
Are you lost trying to follow the money moving back and forth between multiple accounts?
Can the person never provide supporting documentation for disbursements when asked?
Is that smooth-talking, charming and charismatic person selling you that investmentwith very high rates of return actually a fraudster?
Have you lost money and don't know where it went?
Has there been a personal injury or wrongful death that has caused a financial loss?
Have you been deceived or tricked and lost money as a result?
Are there red flags of fraud present? Ask Saul. He knows what to look for.
Is a trustee using trust funds for personal expenses/to fund their lifestyle?
Is the money you thought was there missing?
Do you want to know how much has been stolen?
Do you need clarity, peace of mind and your questions answered in a confusing financial situation?
Do you have suspicions of fraud?
Has your spouse transferred money or other assets into other people's names to hide it?
SGI expert witness forensic accountant Saul Gordon works on civil (including family law) cases as well as on criminal cases.
Did a fraudster get past your business's internal controls?
Did you know? Fraud can even be committed by a family member.
Is someone playing games with numbers with you? You don't have to stay confused. Call Saul - he knows the kinds of games people play.
Did you know? Not all forensic accounting cases involve fraud but many do.
Does the amount of restitution need to be quantified?
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Welcome to SGI Forensic

SGI Forensic (“SGI”) is a firm specializing in forensic accounting which is a litigation support service.

SGI serves California and beyond (subject to local requirements). SGI provides services regionally in Southern California to Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, as well as to other locations in California and beyond.

No forensic accounting firm would be complete without an expert witness. The owner of SGI, Saul Gordon, CPA, CFE, CIA, CA(SA) has testified as an expert witness on a number of occasions. He has testified in both criminal and civil trials and beyond just Orange County where SGI was originally established. He served as the President of the Orange County Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”) from 2007-2011. The ACFE is the world’s largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. He served as a Director-at-Large for the Inland Empire Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners from 2009-2012. He has also served as the Orange County District Ambassador for the Professional Investigators of California from 2008-2011. Read more about Saul here.

More About Forensic Accounting Services

One definition of “forensic accounting” is accounting that is used in a legal setting. For that reason, it falls under the umbrella of litigation support services. Forensic accounting is often incorrectly referred to as a forensic audit or simply an audit. Forensic accounting is practiced as a specialization by a relatively small number of CPA’s. Fraud examinations are often referred to as fraud investigations. Whatever the term used, fraud examinations/fraud investigations fall under the umbrella of forensic accounting services.

What SGI Forensic Does

Generally speaking, if there are questions about where money has gone, questions about how much money is at issue or disputes about money, you should seriously consider contacting SGI.

In its role as a provider of forensic accounting services, SGI can function as one or more of the following: A quantifier, a follower of the trail of the money, a fact-finder and a question-answerer. SGI searches for the truth while delving through hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of documents, to bring answers and to provide opinions to its clients. SGI can also prepare written reports of its findings, Exhibits for Court and Saul Gordon can testify in Court, at depositions and at other hearings as an expert witness.

SGI provides services in a variety of criminal and civil matters. See SGI’s list of services for details of areas such as white collar fraud examinations (e.g. embezzlement and breach of positions of trust), white collar criminal defense, business litigation, loss quantification and more.

It is not uncommon for SGI to examine both financial and non-financial corroborating data, to consider other not-so-obvious information as well to use other techniques to find the facts.

Besides having a large network of attorneys, private investigators, computer forensics examiners and other investigative professionals, SGI can work with a client’s existing team, which may consist of a variety of investigative and non-investigative professionals.

For more information, please see the Services page of this website.

Why choose SGI Forensic?

SGI Forensic has a motto: “Affordable Solutions. Personalized Service. Attention to Detail”. Who doesn’t want affordable solutions and personalized service? And attention to detail is absolutely critical in the forensic accounting world. It’s not at every firm that clients have direct access to the expert witness owner as a matter of course. Don’t cheat yourself out of using a firm with an expert witness who is thorough, flexible, easy-to-work-with, responsive and who applies a scrutinizing attention to detail. One more thing: At SGI Forensic you won’t wait days and days for your phone call to be returned. SGI prides itself on its responsiveness. SGI Forensic provides personalized, professional service to every client, regardless of how big or small that client may be. SGI Forensic is a progressive firm that harnesses the benefits of technology to perform its work as efficiently as possible.

If you are not sure if you need forensic accounting services, SGI welcomes you to Contact SGI electronically or to call SGI for guidance. Contact SGI Forensic today to find out if you need SGI Forensic’s services.

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SGI Forensic is not a law firm, is not owned by and does not employ any attorneys and as such, does not render any legal advice at any time and in any manner whatsoever. You are asked to refer all legal questions to your legal counsel. Services are provided in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Retainer Agreement. Accordingly, SGI reports and bases its opinions on facts, which facts and opinions may or may not be in accordance with the outcome(s) desired by a client. SGI does not make any guarantee, promise or other assurance that the same or similar results can be obtained in any matter it undertakes. The outcome of a particular matter depends on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the specific facts and circumstances of a case, the people involved, the events that subsequently take place (including unanticipated events), etc. Saul Gordon may not be designated as an expert in any matter until there is a signed retainer agreement with SGI Forensic and the retainer and expert designation fees are paid. Any expert designation contrary to this, renders the expert designation fee due and payable immediately, whether or not SGI accepts the case.
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