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CRIMINAL & CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS
Research/Undercover/Interviews
Foreign Assignments
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Green Star Investigations was founded and incorporated in 2003, by Clarissa McNair, P.I. The private investigator brings her skills as a journalist, as an interviewer, as a writer to Green Star Investigations. McNair has been a detective for the past fourteen years.
McNair's background gives her invaluable experience for trial preparation. She was the investigator for Sante and Kenny Kimes during the years leading to their NYC trial for the murder of Irene Silverman and then was hired as consultant to the defense team when the Kimeses were tried for murder in Los Angeles. McNair has served on several defense teams and excels in pre-trial interviews of witnesses.
Her experience includes working with the FBI, the NYPD's OCID (Organized Crime Intelligence Division), the Federal Marshals, and the Joint Terrorist Task Force in New York City.
For several years, McNair has worked extensively in the field of intellectual property for internationally recognized designers and manufacturers. This is typically undercover work wearing a hidden video or a wire.
Taking on investigations for these large firms does not preclude working for an individual who has a problem, a suspicion or who has been charged with a crime. McNair is often hired by a client to work with a lawyer or by a lawyer to gather information. This usually includes photographing sites, obtaining police records and interviewing witnesses. She has a reputation for being able to reach and interview difficult subjects. In short, McNair is retained to do anything, anywhere to help prepare for trial. She has served on the defense team of clients charged with a range of criminal acts including homicide, rape and money-laundering.
Clarissa McNair is presently a court-appointed investigator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but continues to handle all sorts of cases for Green Star Investigations.
Biography
Clarissa McNair was born and grew up in Mississippi and graduated from Briarcliff College in New York with a B.A. in American history. In Toronto, McNair was a researcher for the CBC-TV documentary called Connections. The ten-hour series took several years to produce, won many awards and received a standing ovation from the Canadian Parliament.
In Rome, she worked for Vatican Radio as a news writer, on-air newscaster and producer of documentaries. She interviewed all sorts of luminaries: celebrities, journalists, cardinals, ambassadors and heads of state. On weekends, McNair was the news anchor for a small television station. A few years later, while writing her first novel, she was in charge of international publicity for a Los Angeles production company making movies in Rome.
In Los Angeles, McNair worked in all phases of script development.
Clarissa McNair is a published novelist and enthusiastic traveler. She has lived in Italy, Cyprus, England, Switzerland, Portugal and Canada. Her travels include a year in Africa, trips all over Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
McNair has an advanced degree from the Cordon Bleu di Roma and graduated from the New York School of Interior Design. Her professional memberships include PEN AMERICA and the World Investigators Network. She is also a founding member and vice president of PEN FLORIDA.
NOTE: For more information, see the section titled Recent Press Attention for the biography recently published in the World Investigators Network magazine.
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TRIAL PREPARATION
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HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS
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RECORD SEARCHES
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PROPERTY SEARCHES
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POLYGRAPH TESTING
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MISSING PERSONS SEARCHES
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DUE DILIGENCE
- CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING
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GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS
- INSURANCE INVESTIGATIONS
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INVESTIGATIONS
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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
- STOLEN ART RECOVERY
- TRADEMARK VIOLATION INVESTIGATIONS
- UNDERCOVER WORK
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WHITE COLLAR CRIME INVESTIGATIONS
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Search & Reconnaissance
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Foreign Assignments
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| Clarissa McNair has traveled widely and has maintained residences in Rome, New York, Beverly Hills, Miami, London, Toronto and Geneva. She has also lived in a fishing village off the coast of Tuscany and on the island of Cyprus. She devoted a year to tracing the perimeter of Africa and is familiar with most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean. McNair has spent time in such diverse places as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Arctic, Patagonia and Ethiopia. She has a working knowledge of Italian and French.
McNair has been retained by firms in England, Australia, France and Italy for assignments in the United States.
In May of 2005, she was asked to find a missing person in Europe. The subject had disappeared three months before, leaving his luggage, including medication, in a hotel room in France. The search was wide for he spoke three languages fluently, including Russian, and did not want to be found. McNair took the case and flew to Paris.
Acting as the legal representative of the family, she immediately discovered that much of what is taken for granted here in the U.S. is confidential and unavailable information overseas. European law enforcement is much less forthcoming than its American counterparts. Matters of privacy mean that Amercian embassies in world capitals are prevented from divulging anything about an American citizen to anyone---even to a frantic and worried family. The only exceptions are when the subject is near death or has died or has been declared incompetent.
McNair found the missing person, tailed him for ten days until a family member arrived to escort him home and closed the case.
A situation such as this demands unflagging energy, a relentless nature and a measure of diplomacy. It is neccessary to know how to get things done as quickly as possible in a foreign country.
***Fees are by the hour or by the day plus expenses***
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| "With a keen understanding of human behavior, Cici McNair displays initiative, intelligence and professionalism in her assignments for us. She has excellent people skills and a quick grasp of what is needed in each investigation." -- Tom Cash, Executive Managing Director of Kroll, a risk consulting firm with 55 offices on six continents
"Cici brings elegance to any investigation." -- Alice Byrne, President of Alice Byrne Investigations, Inc., Brooklyn, New York
"Ms. McNair firmly and quickly captured the essence and subtleties of different types of sophisticated money laundering and the U.S. laws and rules that apply to it. She brings additional value to her forensic work by her great ability to express herself very well orally and in writing." -- Charles A. Intriago, Attorney, President of Alert Global Media, Inc., and Publisher of Money Laundering Alert, a Miami-based monthly publication that is one of the world's leading authorities on money laundering, the Bank Secrecy Act and foreign laws
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Published in the June/July/August 2004 of The Communicator, a publication of the World Investigators Network AROUND THE WORLD WITH JACK HENEBRY Selected Excerpts:
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Large firms, small firms and one-man bands now hire Cici. Cases run the gamut from counterfeit pharmaceuticals to corporate malfeasance to stolen art recovery. Criminal work is her favorite.
“Once in awhile I get sent somewhere great like Paris which IS better than riding the subway to the Bronx,” she smiles. But she says she loves it all. “Every case interests me on some level. It’s a person with a problem. It has to be taken care of.” When asked about undercover, Cici says, “I get to be an actress and I get to write my own lines. What’s better than that?”
Last summer, a money laundering case in the Caribbean meant time in Miami and she liked it. While waiting for her Florida P.I. license, she was a volunteer working with endangered loggerhead turtles. She was alone on the beach for the midnight shift moving the tiny, newly hatched babies from the hatchery into the surf. She recalls, with a sense of awe, the stars, the ocean in the middle of the night, and the turtles the size of Ritz crackers fearlessly plunging into the black waves.
In November, she opened her Coral Gables firm. “Plenty of evil here,” she laughed. “I have terraces again––not Rome but I have palm trees—and I’m two hours twenty minutes flying time from New York. I go up once a month for cases and for my NY fix but I’m actually getting cases from all over. With a cell phone and email, no one knows where I am or what I’m really up to. Mostly, I’m on the phone, barefooted, drinking a Diet Coke—this is how I run the tropical office of Green Star Investigations.”
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In the spring of 2006, Clarissa McNair was asked by Dr. Iain Robertson (Head of Art Business Studies, SIAL) to contribute to a book called THE ART BUSINESS. McNair's subject is the art of crime whereby she discusses intellectual property, copies, fakes, the looting of archaeological sites, smuggling and the recent international repercussions in the auction world. McNair writes a section on patrimony and the spoils of war which chronicles the efforts of family members to recover property seized by the Nazis and the new legislation that is making this easier.
Charles Hill, internationally known stolen art recovery expert and former Scotland Yard detective, contributes his expertise on the subject of stolen paintings.
THE ART BUSINESS, to be used as a textbook for the Sotheby's Institute of Art in London, was published in April 2008.
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