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Matrimonial Casale Associates was asked to serve a Court Order on an elusive witness in a tabloid studded divorce action between a super model and her flamboyant polo playing husband.
Domestic Incident Attorneys asked Mr. Casale to investigate information on a police report and substantiate the accuser’s claim before they commenced an action against one of the World’s wealthiest men. Mr. Casale uncovered information that caused the attorneys not to proceed any further with the case.
Homicide The attorney representing a New Jersey man accused of fatally stabbing a Newton woman retained Nick Casale to conduct an independent homicide investigation.
Employment Mr. Casale was engaged by attorneys conducting an internal investigation of a equity partner at a major Manhattan law firm. The partner resigned and now faces a disciplinary hearing.
Hollywood Spying Nick Casale was asked to review evidence that a iconic Oscar award winner was spying on his celebrity wife.
Protest Mr. Casale appeared before Federal District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein as an expert witness on crowd control and policing. Mr. Casale testified in support of protesters seeking to march in front of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Manhattan residency. The Court agreed with the protestors.
Business Independent members of the Board of Directors of a .com company asked Casale Associates to investigate the disclosure of proprietary information.
International Attorneys asked Casale Associates to review real estate transactions and determine if sufficient evidence existed against the son of a foreign government’s prime minister to warrant referring the case to Federal prosecutors in New York.
Legal Lawyers representing an attorney that allegedly skimmed millions of dollars from guardianships asked Nick Casale to review the evidence presented by the government before trial.
Domestic Incident Super 100 Lawyer Allan Mantel retained Mr. Casale to conduct an investigation into the background of a women making allegation against a successful Manhattan entrepreneur.
Employment Casale Associates was retained by lawyers representing a prominent doctor accused of professional improprieties.
Fraud Casale Associates was brought in by the defense to counter the governments claim that a major car dealer was juggling VIN numbers to obtain fraudulent financing.
Homicide Anthony Pope, the attorney representing the family of the 46-year-old Dominican mother of three who disappeared while cleaning a desolate floor at 2 Rector St., hired private investigator Nicholas Casale to conduct an investigation into her brutal death. Eridania Rodriguez’s body was found stuffed in a ventilation shaft while she was still alive. Police found the body four days later and charged the building elevator operator, Joseph Pabon, with First Degree Murder.
Homicide the family of Derek Harris, a Newark barber, who was jailed for a traffic incident and sent to a private detention facility was strangled by three inmates who robbed him of $20, hired Mr. Casale to investigate the facts surrounding the chilling crime.
Media A Network News personality consulted with Casale Associates after police responded to his home after receiving a call for help from the unoccupied home. This came on the heels of his show exposing CIA high jinks.
Madoff Casale Associates was engaged by Ike Sorkin and Dan Horwitz of Dickstein Shapiro, LLP, to write the bail modification agreement security pan and provide court-ordered security for Bernard L. Madoff. Casale Associates was government approved and Court accepted as Madoff’s bail monitor.
Rock N Roll Murder Rap High-profile defense attorney Bruce Cutler, representing 60's pop legend Phil Spector, brought Nick Casale into the case, saying, “Nick's a first class former first grade detective in every respect.” Phil Spector's first trial for murder ended with a hung jury. After deliberating for 12 days the jury returned to tell the judge that it was in hopeless dead locked. Judge Larry Fidler declared a mistrial. Cutler left Spector's defense team claiming "a difference of opinion between Mr. Spector and me on strategy." Spector brought in a new defense team. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.
Matrimonial Casale Associates provide technical expertise to dispel allegations made by a pair of battling record producers.
Stalking Attorneys for musician / artist John Lurie retained Nick Casale to review allegations that NYPD detectives refused to act on threats against Mr. Lurie. The threats according to Mr. Lurie were made by a former social friend and fringe artist. Mr. Casale concluded that Mr. Lurie was uncooperative, irrational and inflexible about preparing a follow-up complaint report with the police. Mr. Casale told a magazine that featured this bizarre tale that “Mr. Lurie lives in self imposed exile and refuses to take reasonable actions to free himself from his own chaos.”
$10 Million Heist Attorneys from Reed Smith asked Casale Associates in to look into a major robbery and liaison with police on behalf of their client.
Headline News Federal Civil Rights attorney Steven Hyman, representing the star witness against former New York police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, engaged Nick Casale to investigate allegations that their client’s New Jersey home was illegally searched by authorities.
Songwriter Nick Casale was retained by lawyers representing a Grammy Award, Song Of The Year and Academy Award wining composure during his embattled divorce.
Trust & Estate Attorneys representing the life-long friend of financier Jack Dreyfus asked Mr. Casale to serve the reclusive billionaire in his secluded Eastside penthouse. Mr. Casale’s team of investigators successfully served the court papers.
Civil Rights Norman Siegel, former executive director of the NYCLU, recommended Nick Casale to conduct an independent investigation for the bereaved family of a police officer after authorities ruled their son’s suspicious death a suicide.
Media Client Legendary divorce lawyer to the stars, Raoul Felder, retained Nick Casale to do the background investigation for a divorce action involving a well-known media client.
Health Care Mr. Casale was brought in to investigate a $6 million internal fraud at a New York area hospital which lead to a major recovery for the plaintiff. Fatal Accident Attorneys representing the estate of the victim of a horrific highway accident, that killed four people when a tanker truck loaded with gasoline exploded, retained Casale Associates to liaison with authorities, review the evidence and identify witnesses. Health Care Mr. Casale conducted an investigation regarding allegations that a medical doctor inappropriately harassed a hospital employee. Plaintiff's attorneys settled with the doctor based upon facts revealed during the investigation. The hospital was also named as a defendant in the action chose not to settle. A jury awarded a staggering $17 million dollar award against the hospital. Trust & Estate A New York law firm retained Nick Casale to travel to France and investigate a $70 million trust fraud for the heir to a famous banking family after a cabal of socialites siphoned millions from the estate. Real Estate A company that owns a portfolio of high profile properties asked us to evaluate a security guard company patrolling their properties. We uncovered a pattern of thefts by a security guard and the failure of other guards to properly screen tenants and guests leaving with packages. Our evidence was overwhelming, the security guard was arrested by police and the guard company paid restitution for the client’s losses.
Jury Tampering Attorneys representing an International modeling agency successfully retained Casale Associates to investigate jury tampering after losing a $6 million plaintiff award.
Child Pornography Ring We investigated a “child pornography ring” involving a senior executive at our client's company. After building a case, we presented the evidence to the police; the employee was quietly terminated and quickly arrested.
Destruction of Corporate Documents Nick Casale found an elusive witness and obtained a statement for attorneys in a $100 million dollar corporate lawsuit centering around the destruction of key evidence.
Trust & Estate Attorneys representing the estate of a famous restaurateur, former Olympic wrestler and top-ranked speedboat racer, retained us when it was learned that he had multiple mistresses and illegitimate children.
Employment Law Attorneys representing a doctor charged with improperly terminating an employee in an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint brought us in to evaluate the former worker’s performance. Our investigation uncovered a scheme by the employee to defraud the doctor and falsely initiate the EEO action. The EEO complaint against the doctor was dropped and the employee admitted embezzling $35,000 to authorities.
Boxing Match We were asked by an International law firm to investigate a boxing match that was mysteriously cancelled in Moscow. We got involved and quietly enlisted New York and Nevada authorities - forcing the promoter to settle with our client.
Security Evaluation We were asked to evaluate security procedures for a Madison Avenue art gallery displaying priceless 19th Century Russian and Polish art.
Feline Fiasco A prized show cat was kidnapped and held for ransom. Our work led to the safe return of the wooly Abyssinian and the caging of the pet perpetrator.
Medical We researched and wrote mandatory manuals and put in place producers for Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility Centers — guaranteeing donor and surrogate anonymity—in compliance with local laws.
Health Care When a patient died we responded to a medical facility and secured statements and evidence in anticipation of litigation. The case was reviewed by authorities and no litigation was brought against the doctor.
Pre Contract Screening A Not-For-Profit art foundation retained us to perform a due diligence investigation on a prospective vendor before signing a $3 million contract. Our analysis determined the venture to be extremely risky and the principal participant to be untrustworthy. The foundation board vetoed the proposal.
Matrimonial Law We turned-up a pattern of fraudulent activity, including a prior marriage, which allowed a prominent client to annul her marriage and enforce a multi-million dollar pre-nuptial agreement.
Matrimonial Law Mr. Casale served an elusive diamond dealer inside the Los Angles jewelry center compelling the jewelry to return to New York and appear in court.
Health Care We conducted an investigation regarding allegations that a dentist inappropriately had relations with a patient in his office. Attorneys representing the doctor used evidence uncovered during our investigation at the trial. The doctor was acquitted of criminal charges. Wall Street We were asked by defense attorneys to do background investigations on all potential witnesses in a major Wall Street insider trading case that received widespread media attention.
Medical Casale Associates provided background investigations on potential donors and the surrogate; and provide integrity monitoring throughout the process for a celebrity client.
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The New York Times
“High-profile and high-paying baby-sitting.”
“Bail Sitter” By Alan Feuer
December 27, 2009—If you had been looking closely during the criminal case of Bernard L. Madoff you might have spotted a portly man with a walrus mustache hovering just behind the defendant’s elbow on his various trips to court.
Though dressed like a lawyer, he was not one; nor a prosecutor, a personal assistant, a limousine driver or a family friend. His name, in fact, is Nick Casale and he is a retired New York Police Department detective who was serving as a monitor in the latest iteration of that age-old institution known as bail.
Mr. Casale, in short, was a state-sanctioned nanny, escorting Mr. Madoff back and forth from his penthouse to the courthouse to ensure that the world’s most famous fraudster abided by the strict conditions that had gotten him out of jail. “It was an almost military matter,” Mr. Casale observed proudly, sitting in his office, high over Madison Avenue.
THE NEW YORK TIMES— Editorial Page New York, June 2, 2006 - Operation Atlas, with its cavalcade of flashy police cars, blaring sirens and machine gun-toting cops moving around New York City, does little to deter terrorism, according to federal officials, who fault the Bloomberg administration for losing $83 million in precious counterterrorism money by not adequately explaining how programs like this can make the city safer. THE BOSTON GLOBE— Editorial Page June 20, 2006- The MTA poses problems with its unwritten policy of giving police the choice to let people take pictures on transit property as long as the people are not in “sensitive” areas. The ACLU threatened to sue over limits to photographing the transit system. Banning photography and videotaping from any publicly accessible area makes no sense and does little to enhance security. Having cops leave high-profile security posts and counterterrorism patrols to enforce vague and ambiguous policies is a waste of precious police resources and may lead to selective enforcement and racial profiling. But limiting picture-taking in certain situations makes sense. Arenas and theaters discourage flash photography, which distracts performers and causes confusion, as do commercial photography and filmmaking in crowded areas. Trespassing into “sensitive” areas, such as tunnels, yards, and garages, is already prohibited by law and that makes sense too. But beefing up security and freeing cops to protect commuters makes the most sense. Power And Corruption on the Country Greatest Police Department
By Leonard Levitt
(excerpt) David Willis, a 10th Precinct rookie officer, was struck and killed by a mail truck that broadsided his patrol car on Eleventh Avenue and 30th Street as he and his partner responded to a false 911 call reporting a man with a gun in the Chelsea Houses. Working outside normal channels at Detective Bureau and the 10th Precinct’s squad, Nick Casale, a detective from the Chief of Department’s office, worked the case for two months before arresting a thirty-eight-year-old unemployed laborer named Manny Perez.
The NYPD Retired Detectives Association recognized Detective Casale for “performing an outstanding investigation into the death of police officer David Willis.” Detective Casale received the Chief of Detectives “Excellence” award for his effort too.
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