Episode 259 - Susan Walberg

And so what makes a good investigator in your mind? Um,

A good investigator can relate to anybody and put them at ease.

At least for me, I could talk to anybody and have them quickly relax and act like...

I'm

so relaxed right now.

Huh?

I'm so relaxed right now.

Well, you're supposed to be.

That's your job.

But I mean, that's a big part of it.

And I find that...

And well...

I'll be honest when I was doing the fraud work for the insurance company, my biggest technique was to play dumb

because

I was young, young and blonde.

And, and I found that they would just edit charts right in front of me because they just didn't think I ever knew anything.

And then I'd go back to the office and I'd write up the repayment request.

So, um, I won't recommend playing dumb, but it does help if they don't see you as threatening.

So I think that's a big piece.

I'm not here for corporate and I'm going to bust your chops.

No policing.

It's, you know, I'm just here to help sort out what happened.

And I want to hear, you know, your view on it.

And then, you know, like that.

I, yeah, I had some huge investigations and early on when I was barely past law school, And they were some pretty significant cases where executives lost their jobs because of what they were doing.