Minnesota Cyber Security and Computer Forensic experts, whose testimony has been displayed in thousands of court room trials in the last 30 years, has been facing questions about their credibility and an investigation. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the investigation may be to reopen several cases in which the testimony of the expert may be decisive.
Any conclusion can be made from Shri Laenterman reading the LinkedIn profile that has a degree from Harvard University.
Mark lactantman The US Secret Service Electronics Crime is a former investigator for the Task Force, which established the Miniapolis Consulting Firm Computer forensic services (CFS). The CFS website says that the 30-year career of Lenterman has testified to him as an expert in more than 2,000 cases, with sexual harassment and workplace claims, intellectual property and business secrets theft, white-collar crime and experience related cases related to lawsuits.
Or at least it was done until last month, when the profile and work history of LaNterman was quietly removed from the CFS website. Came after removing Henepin County Attorney Office Said It was informing the parties for ten pending cases that they were unable to verify Laenterman’s educational and employment background. County’s counsel also said that the FBI is now investigating the allegations.
Those allegations were raised Scene harringtonA lawyer and forensic examiner is located in Prescott, Wisconsin. Harrington alleged that Laenterman was sworn in in court on several occasions. Sub -legend collegeAnd he completed his postgraduate work in cyber space Harvard University,
Harrington’s claims obtained steam to excavate by the law firm Perkins Koi LLPWhich is defending a case in which a customer’s laptop was reviewed forensically reviewed by Lanterman. On 14 March, Perkins Koi lawyers asked the judge (PDF) to attack Laenterman’s testimony as neither he nor he could certify claims about his educational background.
Located in Apasala College, East Orange, NJ, operates for 102 years until it was closed in 1995 after a period of decline in enrollment and financial difficulties. Perkins Koi told the court that they had gone Felician UniversityWhich keeps tape for Upasala College over the years, Laenterman claimed that he had earned a bachelor’s and bachelor’s degree. The law firm said that the Fetishian had no record of tape for Laenterman (PDF), and that his name was absent from the book and starting programs of the year of Uppasala College during that period.
Arrived for comment, Laenterman admitted that he had no way to prove it HarvardxWhich warns that its certificates should not be considered equal to the certificate earned through a Harvard degree or traditional, in-traditional programs at Harvard University.
Laenterman testified that her first job after college was serving as a police officer at Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, although Perkins Koi lawyers mentioned that the role was released from her resume. The lawyers said that when he tried to verify the work history of Laenterman, “the police department responded with a story, which would be almost impossible to believe that if it was not confirmed by Laenterman’s own email communication.”
As pronounced in the filing on 14 March, Laenterman was removed on 11 February, and the next day he emailed the Springfield Township Police Department to see if he could have a glimpse in the file of his old personnel. On 14 February, Lenterman visited Springfield Township PD and asked to borrow his employment record. He told the officer that he had talked on the phone that he was recently instructed to “get his matters” after finding out a serious heart situation, and he wanted his old file to show his early career about his early career.
According to Perkins Koi, Lenterman left the Springfield Township PD with his personnel file, and has not returned it as promised.
“It is shocking that an expert from Minnesota will travel to a suburban Philadelphia and abscond with his decades -old personnel file to obscure his background,” the Law firm wrote. “This seems to be the worst and most egoistic form of spoliation, and there is enough reason to exclude the deception Laenterman alone and consider restrictions.”
Harrington initially approached Krebsnsurity about his concerns in the late 2023, fuming after seating A conference speech In which Laenterman shared documents with a ransomware victim and told the attendees that it was because he recently refused to appoint his company to conduct a forensic inquiry on the violation.
“He claimed that he was included in Martha Stewart Investigation, Burney Madoff Trial, Paul McCartney’s divorce, Tom Pethers Investigation, Denny Heker’s investigation and many others.” “He claims that he has been invited to talk to the Supreme Court, claims to train the ‘entire federal judiciary’ on annual cyber security, and the Faculty Members of the Judicial Conference and Judicial College of the United States – who they received, which they, who they, received in the house of cheating, at home, in part.”
In an interview this week, Harrington said that court documents suggests that the last two customers of Lantorman had complained that CFS had kept its data for ransom on billing disputes. In an announcement (PDF) in August 2022, the co-founder of the law firm Morelom Miniapolis LLC He said that in 2014 he hired Laenterman to check several electronic devices after learning that one of his paralying had a history of criminal fraud.
But the law firm said that when it pushed back to a consultation bill, which was more than expected, Laenterman told them that CFS will “increase its collection’s efforts” if they do not pay, including “a claim and lien against data, resulting in a public auction of your data.”
The co-founder of Morelolaw wrote, “We were all instigated by Shri Laenterman’s email.” Kimberly hanlon“I had never heard of any legitimate forensic company, threatening to ‘auction’ from a lawyer’s data, especially knowing that the data includes confidential client data, most of which is sensitive in nature.”
In 2009, a Wisconsin-based manufacturing company that hired Lenterman for computer forensic, paid a $ 86,000 challan from CFS, called it “highly and unbalanced”. The company told a Hennapin County court that on April 15, 2009, CFS auctioned its business secret information in violation of its privacy agreement.
The company wrote, “CFS focused on a public sale of electronic information and was assigned to the terms of the engagement agreement.” “CFS presented the highest bid on public sales in an amount of $ 10,000.”
Laenterman on March 24 gave a brief answer to a list of questions about his background (and recent heart diagnosis), saying that he would send a detailed answer the next day. Those answers never physically physically. Instead, Laenterman recently carried forward a memorandum that he wrote to the court in which Harrington was attacked and said that his accused was only trying to take out a contestant. He has not responded to further requests for comments.
Lanterman, while supervising a separate ongoing case (PDF), told, “I was a commuter student who lived in Moristown, New Jersey at a distance of about 30 minutes from Apasala College with his grandparents in Moristown, New Jersey,” Laterman Explained in which he has testified. “With limited resources, I did not participate in campus social events, nor did I participate in graduate ceremonies. In 2023, I confirmed with Felician University-which maintains the record of Upasala College-that they could not detect my tape or diplomas, a situation that he indicated that possibly due to issues related to unresolved money. “
Laenterman was ordered to appear in court on 3 April in the case rescued by Perkins Koi, but he did not show. Instead, he sent a message to the judge to withdraw from the case.
“I am 60 years old,” Laenterman told the judge. “I made my business with nothing. I am working with the choice of individuals like Scene Harrington. And quite clearly, I have been planning to start my business for years. The time has come.”
Laenterman’s letter abandoned the notion that it was his decision to retire. But according to an affidavit (PDF) filed in a Florida case on March 28, Mark Laenterman’s son Sean said that he made a difficult decision to ask his father to attract all negative media to draw attention.
Mark RaschA former federal cyber offense prosecutor who now serves as a lawyer for the New York Cyber Security Intelligence Firm Unit 221BSaid that if an expert witness is maligned, any defendant who has lost cases that were strongly influenced by the findings of the expert in the test can be the basis for the appeal.
Rasch said that the law firms proposed to an expert witness are the duty of good faith for the merit of that expert, knowing that those credensiles will be subjected to cross-examination.
“Federal rules of both civil process and evidence require experts to list every matter, which they have testified as an expert for the last few years,” Rasach said. “A part of that diligent hard work is drawing the consequences of those cases and seeing what the nature of their testimony has been.”
Perhaps the best propagated case related to important forensic findings from Laenterman was guilty of 2018 Stephen allavinWho was it Found guilty of killing his wife Two years ago, a hitman fell after efforts to hire a hitman on the dark net. Allwine is serving a sentence of life in the gel, and continues to maintain that it continues to doubt the computer forensic evidence found on 64 electronic devices taken from his home.
On 24 March, Allavin filed a Minnesota Court (PDF) petition to see his case again, cited allegations against Laenterman and had a role as a major witness for the prosecution.
