White collar and financial crimes include money laundering, securities fraud, embezzlement and insurance fraud. Whether the case involves a single count of forgery or a sophisticated scheme of fraud or embezzlement, these are considered federal crimes. Each white collar case is as unique, as unique is a person using his or her brains to evilly defraud society, individual business, or citizen for the perpetrator’s own ill gotten benefit. 
This category of criminals are intellectuals, so not less brilliant intellectuals should be the law enforcement professionals who confront them in a joint effort to protect the society’s well-being. Some of them work for the National White Collar Crime Center, which is a non-profit organization, funded by the Department of Justice. The NWCCC has declared its mission as striving to provide resources and support to agencies and organizations that are directly dealing with prevention, investigation, and prosecution of this type of socially dangerous crimes.
The National White Collar Crime Center’s 250 or so participating agencies can be found almost in every state across the USA. The ways and methods through which the Center works towards implementation of its goals are numerous, but it is not my intention to describe or even list them. Just wanted to mention the NWCCC derives quite a volume of important information from a number of subscription based online commercial databases (though I don’t know which of them exactly) and runs the searches of public records for investigative purposes in the name of its member law enforcement agencies.
In part, this can be done with the purpose of locating witnesses, tracing missing subjects or digging out the information that could eventually lead to uncovering hidden assets. This information normally gets revealed in the process of investigative expert screening of judgment records, lien records and Uniform Commercial Code filings. In fact, non-commercial public sources too offer access to, probably, the same info, so it is available not only to government agency officers. Almost any piece of this information can be legally released to, say, employers, landlords etc.
provided they got their prospective employee or tenant’s written consent to allow pre-employment or tenant background check run against them. The point is the commercial databases maintained by information brokers offer the benefit of finding information faster. If you, as individual, choose to use any of commercial compilations of public records in the form of online searchable database, never forget that it’s only you responsibility to ensure you use if strictly within the limits authorized to you in written form by your subject.
And by no means get tempted to even start compiling your own database of public records based on the information you got while searching a commercial database. And even if the search was done for you by a private investigator agency you have contracted for this or that background check, you still can be liable, should you fail to destroy the background check report you got from them within the period of time specified by your state’s privacy protection laws.