For some time, Pinpoint has been able to expand its services to our clients by delivering results that meet our clients’ complex demands. Pinpoint also offers unique approaches, such as deployment of undercover operatives in corporate or industrial facilities, out on the street, or anywhere in the world, to acquire information unavailable through conventional means.
Pinpoint moves rapidly and discreetly to uncover hidden trails, make connections, and provide you with information that others have concealed. The extensive law enforcement backgrounds of our team help ensure that our investigation will be conducted aggressively, but will withstand legal scrutiny.
Pinpoint Investigations & Security Corp. provides these services throughout Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.
Who Uses This Service
- In-house counsel, outside counsel, litigation teams, and law firms needing independent fact development, witness work, surveillance, or business-record research.
- Business owners, executives, boards, special committees, partners, and family offices addressing fraud, misconduct, control, or reputational concerns.
- Human-resources, compliance, internal-audit, risk-management, security, and loss-prevention departments.
- Insurers, claims professionals, special investigation units, lenders, investors, private-equity firms, and parties conducting transactional or third-party due diligence.
- Healthcare, financial, retail/luxury-goods, property-management, logistics, construction, nonprofit, and other organizations responsible for sensitive information, money, inventory, or vulnerable people.
When to Contact Pinpoint
Clients usually call when a business decision, dispute, or suspected loss requires facts beyond internal assumptions or a database-only search. Common triggers include:
- Employee, executive, partner, or vendor theft; embezzlement; false billing; payroll or expense fraud; kickbacks; diversion; or misuse of company property.
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest, competing businesses, side agreements, policy violations, time/leave abuse, or other workplace misconduct requiring an independent inquiry.
- Trade-secret, customer-list, intellectual-property, confidential-data, or former-employee concerns requiring lawful preservation and fact development.
- Questions about a prospective partner, acquisition target, investor, borrower, vendor, executive, or key hire, including hidden ownership, litigation, sanctions, licensing, or adverse history.
- Corporate litigation, fraud, asset, alter-ego, successor-company, or relationship questions requiring records, witnesses, locations, surveillance, or a documented timeline.
- Workplace threats, unauthorized access, missing inventory, suspected covert recording/electronic surveillance, or another security concern requiring licensed investigative support.
What to Expect
Initial intake: we identify the business or legal objective, urgency, suspected conduct, affected people or entities, locations, known evidence, potential conflicts, and the decisions the client needs to make.
Information requested may include entity names and ownership charts; employee/vendor identifiers; contracts, invoices, financial or payroll records; policies; emails or messages lawfully available to the client; access logs, video, photographs, prior reports, and court documents. Sensitive material is transferred securely.
Scope and authorization: priorities, lawful purpose, preservation needs, reporting contacts, field activities, specialist support, fees, approved expenses, and written terms are defined before work begins. Counsel is included when appropriate.
Investigation: corporate, court, UCC, bankruptcy, licensing, sanctions, negative-news, public social-media, and other lawful records; identity and relationship analysis; interviews; surveillance or site work; and coordination with qualified forensic, accounting, cyber, or technical specialists when needed.
Deliverable: a confidential chronological report explaining actions taken, sources, verified findings, discrepancies, photographs or evidence links, unresolved leads, and limitations. Interim updates, follow-up investigation, exhibits, and testimony are available as the matter requires.
Timing and Availability
Urgent triage or evidence-preservation work may begin the same day or next business day when personnel, authorization, required information, and the retainer are available. No start time is guaranteed until the assignment is accepted.
A narrow domestic public-record or corporate due-diligence assignment may take approximately three to seven business days; common names, multiple entities, manual records, or unclear ownership can extend the work.
Interviews, surveillance, site visits, source development, financial reconstruction, digital forensics, or multi-jurisdictional investigations commonly require several days or weeks and may proceed in phases.
Timing depends on court and agency access, third-party responses, witness cooperation, data volume, company record quality, travel, subject activity, foreign jurisdictions, specialist availability, and legal process handled through counsel.
Material developments can be reported promptly, with a final report issued after assigned records, fieldwork, media, and exhibits have been reviewed and organized.
Why Pinpoint
Experienced supervision: work is supervised by Igor Galitsky, a retired NYPD Sergeant/Supervisor Detective with 23 years of law-enforcement and investigative experience, including financial-crime and money-laundering investigations.
Licensed regional capability: Licensed Private Detective, in New Jersey and New York, with practical New York/New Jersey court, corporate-record, surveillance, interview, and field-investigation experience.
Multi-method investigations: public and proprietary research, source-level verification, relationship mapping, witness development, surveillance, site work, evidence review, and specialist coordination are matched to the business question.
Human-led verification: possible matches, ownership links, addresses, case histories, and online claims are checked against identifiers and original or authoritative sources rather than forwarded as a raw database dump.
Evidence discipline: client-provided information, direct observations, verified records, investigative assessments, and unresolved leads are distinguished, dated, sourced, and organized for counsel or decision-makers.
Clear, confidential reporting: practical reports, photographs, secure evidence links, documented limitations, follow-up priorities, and testimony support internal review, litigation, insurance, compliance, and transaction decisions.
Important Limits
- A private investigator is not law enforcement and has no subpoena, search-warrant, or arrest authority. Compulsory records and testimony require the proper legal process through counsel or the court.
- No investigator can guarantee that misconduct, fraud, assets, witnesses, or a particular outcome will be found. The absence of a finding within the agreed scope is not proof that the issue never existed.
- There is no single complete, real-time corporate or background database. Similar names, shell entities, outdated filings, nominee addresses, foreign records, and unreported private arrangements require verification and may remain unresolved.
- We do not hack accounts, bypass access controls, unlawfully obtain bank/phone/email records, trespass, impersonate authorities, or install tracking or recording devices without clear legal authority and written approval.
- Surveillance documents conduct visible from lawful vantage points during assigned periods; interviews are voluntary. Neither method reveals everything that occurred before, after, or in private.
- Investigators report facts and assessments. The client, counsel, HR, compliance, insurers, or the court determine legal relevance, discipline, employment action, liability, and business decisions.
A De-identified Example
De-identified matter: Counsel asked us to investigate possible relationships among several individuals and related companies after corporate filings, transactions, and litigation records raised questions about ownership, control, and prior dealings.
What we did: We reviewed corporate registrations, ownership and address histories, court and bankruptcy records, public filings, negative news, and available business information; compared names, dates, addresses, telephone numbers, and associates; developed a relationship timeline; and conducted targeted field and source follow-up on the most important unresolved links.
General result: Counsel received a comprehensive report and exhibits separating confirmed connections, discrepancies, possible leads, and limitations. The organized timeline and relationship analysis helped the legal team identify additional records, witnesses, and discovery priorities without overstating unverified associations.
Service area and contact
Pinpoint Investigations & Security Corp. serves Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Call 718-667-6422 to discuss your needs.
Related services: Corporate Theft Investigations; Insurance Investigations; Undercover Investigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What information do you need to start?
Usually the business objective, subject and entity names, known identifiers, relevant dates and locations, corporate documents, contracts or transactions, supporting records, and counsel or authorized client contacts. We identify the minimum necessary information during intake and arrange secure transfer.
Can you investigate an employee, partner, or vendor discreetly?
Yes, when the client has a legitimate purpose and the scope is lawful. We coordinate with authorized management, HR, compliance, or counsel; limit disclosure; and avoid steps that would interfere with the business, violate rights, or compromise evidence.
Can you obtain bank, phone, email, or private company records?
Only when the records are lawfully available through client ownership or consent, an authorized provider process, public sources, or proper legal process. We do not hack accounts, use stolen credentials, or misrepresent authority to obtain restricted records.
Will the report be usable in litigation or an internal proceeding?
We document sources, dates, observations, evidence, methods, and limitations so counsel can evaluate and use the work appropriately. We can preserve exhibits and testify when requested, but admissibility and legal strategy are determined by counsel and the court.
How long does a corporate investigation take?
A focused domestic records assignment may take about three to seven business days. Interviews, surveillance, complex ownership, financial review, digital forensics, foreign jurisdictions, and uncooperative sources can extend the work to several weeks or longer.
What does it cost?
We work on a retainer basis. Cost depends on urgency, scope, investigators, jurisdictions, field hours, records, data volume, travel, specialists, report preparation, and testimony. The retainer, rates, and approved expenses are explained in writing before work begins.
