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June 29, 2009

How do I dig up dirt on somebody?

Nexis, the news and legal database company (to which The Sun has a subscription) has helpful hints!

Under the category, "How Do I Find Negative Information in the News?", Nexis says to enter the name of a person or company and then try the following search terms. (The "!" sign is a wildcard for truncation searches. For example "investigat!" hits on investigated, investigation, investigate etc.):

Enter abus! or accus! or alleg! or arraign! or arrest! or assault! or attack! or bankrupt! or beat! or breach! or brib! or ( chapter pre/1 7 or 11 ) or charg! or conspir! or co-conspir! or convict! or corrupt! or court! or crime or criminal! or critici! or deceiv! or decept! or defendant or defraud! or denied or deny or disciplin! or discrim! or distort! or embattled or fraud! or guilt! or harass! or illegal! or incriminat! or indict! or inside! info! or insolv! or investigat! or judgement or judgment or launder! or liquidat! or litigat! or manipul! or misappropriat! or misconduct or misdeme! or mismanag! or misrepresent! or negligen! or offen! or probat! or prosecut! or racketeer! or revocation or revoke* or risk! or sabotag! or sanction! or scam! or scandal! or separat! or steal! or stole* or sued or suing or suspen! or terroris! or theft or threat! or unlawful! or verdict or violat! or violen! in the blank search field directly below the previous drop-down boxes

They left out scumba! and slimebuck! and sleaz!

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About Jay Hancock
Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

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