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QRI is an investigations firm that specializes in large, complex projects all over the world.

 
 

About QRI

QRI is a boutique investigations firm with global reach. We specialize in large, complex investigations.

Our focus is on finding hidden, stolen, and lost information, assets, and people.

We provide personalized attention and creative approaches to finding information and evidence, wherever it lives.

We are retained by outside counsel, corporate counsel, security departments, compliance officers, boards of directors, investors, government agencies, media outfits, individuals, and not-for-profit organizations.

We collect evidence for civil litigators, international arbitrators, and criminal defense attorneys. We conduct internal investigations and look into allegations of misconduct. We support campaigns that benefit the public interest. And we unravel complex corporate structures. We also carry out investigative due diligence in anticipation of transactions and hires.

At QRI, we strive not only to answer our clients’ questions, but to pose questions they may not have considered.

We specialize in:

  • Uncovering hidden information

  • Identifying, finding, and interviewing people

  • Tracking down obscure documents

  • Spotting patterns hidden in disparate groups of big data

  • Making connections where none seem apparent

  • Exposing conflicts of interest, breaches of duty, and undisclosed relationships

  • Conducting background checks

  • Finding elusive assets and enforcing judgments

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Practice Areas

Litigation Support

QRI conducts sophisticated investigations for litigators who specialize in complex commercial matters, white-collar criminal defense, and international arbitration.

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Internal Investigations

When companies suspect wrongdoing from within their ranks, QRI works to root out fraud or discover whether otherwise improper behavior has occurred.

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Due Diligence

QRI strives to give investors and employers the confidence they need to close important deals and hire qualified job candidates. We do not treat due diligence as a compliance exercise or off-the-shelf product. Instead, we apply our experience as private investigators who find hidden, lost, or stolen information to our background checks.

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Investigations in the Public Interest

We use our investigative skill set to support causes that build a better society.

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External Threats

QRI helps organizations protect their brands from data breaches, counterfeits and grey market goods, and cyber attacks.

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Our People

Luke Brindle-Khym
Cofounder, Partner,
General Counsel

David Burghauser
Managing Director,
Head of Cyber Investigations

Anne Diebel
Managing Director

Anna Hendrick
Senior Investigator

Danny Sedlazek
Senior Investigator

Tyler Maroney
Cofounder, Partner

Ahmer Qadeer
Managing Director

Emily Rand
Director

Angel Shin
Director

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What People Are Saying About Us

 

“QRI's investigation that helped grant rapper Meek Mill a new trial and led to his release from prison was ‘relentless’.”

– Esquire

 
 

"When two private investigators were hired to evaluate the many theories about Adnan Syed’s murder conviction—made famous by the podcast Serial and a new, four-part documentary series on HBO—they crisscrossed the globe, from the scrap yards of Baltimore to the alleyways of Seoul"

– The Wall Street Journal

 
 

In his book, The Modern Detective, "Maroney makes a compelling case that the private detective is an antidote to the prevailing trends of financial malfeasance, a check on corruption and fraud, and a force for transparency and accountability."

– The New Yorker

 

Media

This Company Had a Marketing Mystery Only Private Eyes Could Solve.

2021: QRI's Tyler Maroney recounts a creative internal investigation to uncover employee theft.

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Why Private Eyes Are Everywhere Now

2020: In this review, The Modern Detective, a book by QRI Partner Tyler Maroney, is called "a celebration of the analytical and interpersonal intelligence that makes a great investigator."

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The Truth and Mystery Surrounding Private Eyes

2020: The Independent interviewed QRI's Tyler Maroney about his new book The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence is Reshaping the World, and what follows are reflections on the gumshoe game.

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Investigative Work

2020: QRI's Luke Brindle-Khym was credited for investigative work uncovering evidence that the brother-in-law of Sen. Richard Burr sold stock on the same day as Burr, possibly trading on non-public information.

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The Good Guy

2020: QRI's Anne Diebel reviewed Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators — and examines the issues raised by the book.

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How Jeff Bezos' Phone Could Have Been Hacked

2020: QRI's David Burghauser and Tyler Maroney have a shockingly simple theory on how Jeff Bezos' phone could have been hacked.

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Conviction Integrity in Real Time

2020: QRI's Charlie Linehan and Tyler Maroney wrote an OpEd for the New York Law Journal on how to prevent wrongful convictions.

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The World of the Whistleblower

2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney appeared on Cheddar TV, the “CNBC for millennials,” to discuss the whistleblower story.

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Vanity Fair's Inside the Hive Podcast

2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney appeared on Vanity Fair's Inside the Hive podcast to discuss private investigations and some of QRI's prominent cases.

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HBO ‘Serial’ Murder

2019: How We Reinvestigated the ‘Serial’ Murder for HBO.

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Complex | Free Meek

2019: Meet the 'Free Meek' Investigator Who Helped Overturn Meek Mill's Conviction.

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Esquire | Meek Mill

2019: Inside the Relentless Private Investigation That Granted Meek Mill a New Trial.

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Fast Company | Meek Mill

2019: Amazon’s ‘Free Meek’ chronicles Meek Mill’s legal saga and the investigators who cracked the case.

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Amazon | Free Meek

2019: QRI's investigation is featured on the Amazon Prime documentary series Free Meek.

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Case of the Vanishing Journalist

2019: QRI's Tyler Maroney on media-minded private eyes.

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The Case Against Adnan Syed Documentary

2019: QRI's investigation is featured on the HBO documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed.

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Dashiell Hammett’s Strange Career

2018: QRI's Anne Diebel examines Dashiell Hammett's strange career.

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Paper Terrorism: Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon

2018: QRI's Tyler Maroney and Anne Diebel published an article in Harper's Magazine about Paper Terrorism.

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Dreams & Nightmares: The Meek Mill Story

2018: QRI Partner Luke Brindle-Khym and QRI were featured on Dateline's "Dreams and Nightmares: The Meek Mill Story."

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#FreeMeekMill

2018: QRI investigation featured in Rolling Stone.

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Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

2017: QRI's Anne Diebel published an Op-Ed in the New York Times.

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The Boring Life of a Private Investigator

2015: QRI Partner Tyler Maroney published an Op-Ed in The New York Times.

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Spy for a Day

2016: QRI Partner Tyler Maroney profiled a former British intelligence operative in the WSJ.

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In Harm's Way

2015: QRI Partner Luke Brindle-Khym was featured on CNBC's American Greed.

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Contact QRI

New York Headquarters
41 East 11th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Los Angeles Office
9255 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1100
West Hollywood, CA 90069