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Timothy A. Dimoff
Sleuths alarming workplace/social crimes; analyzes analyses trends; offers the latest workplace solutions, all within the framework of actual cases.

Contact:

• Tim Dimoff, pres. SACS Consulting & Investigative Services, Inc.
  Phone: 330-255-1101, Fax: 330-255-1135
  
  
• Guest Location: Premier Suites, 500 Grant Street, Akron, Ohio 44311
  
  
• Time Zone: Eastern
  
  
• Email Address: TADimoff@sacsconsulting.com
  
  
• www.sacsconsulting.com
  
  
• Available for TV, radio, print (via telephone or by arrangement) and on-line interviews

13 timely, dramatic news stories

• "The Agony of Ecstasy"
  Parents are worried about "date rape" drugs, and new designer drugs like "ecstasy" are now being concocted in your average neighborhood. Methamphetamines are made in the kitchen sink, with ammonia and other over-the-counter ingredients. And the highly explosive mixtures are a concern for property owners. The latest synthetic drug crops are stronger today than they've ever been. Tim Dimoff predicts a dramatic increase in the synthetic drugs trend. No importation involved, no smuggling necessary. Simply produce it when and where you want and in the quantity you'd like. "Synthetic drugs answer the cry of bigger, better, quicker highs," Dimoff says. Addiction time is faster, which means increased traffic and higher profit for the dealer. Parents and users beware: "At any time any drugs can shut the body down and you're dead," Dimoff warns.
  
  
• "Corporate Cop: Five Steps to Putting Your Company, School, Home Back In Control"
  A Fortune 100 company has a key purchasing employee marking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in purchases to a bogus company and skimming the proceeds. Another company is losing thousands of dollars and needs to find the leak. Office crime is no longer a matter of a stolen $20 bill. Enter Tim Dimoff, the Corporate Cop, helping companies gain back control. The statistics are alarming: Substance abusers cost employers $7,000 per year and work at only 2/3 of their potential. Over 70% of business theft is from employees. To avoid being smacked with new employee problems AFTER probation is over, Dimoff shows how corporations, school administrators, and even parents can "kick butt" against criminal behavior. Dimoff explains five procedures that stand up in court: 1. pre-employment screening 2. management training 3. physical security 4. employee training and 5. up-to-date manuals and policies.
  
  
• Identity Lost: good name gone
  Scott Lewis, a Kent, Ohio resident, had everything going for him … until he began to be shunned -and even feared- by potential employers. After trying repeatedly to get the jobs he was highly qualified for, Scott settled for a low-paying job and hired Tim Dimoff to run a background check on himself. Dimoff discovered that a murder charge and several DUI charges were attached to Scott's social security number. How did Scott's social security number get linked to a stranger's record? Unseemingly, 10 years earlier, a database entry mistake attached Scott's ID to a man arrested for driving under the influence. Could it happen to you? Dimoff reveals how identity theft occurs and what the public can do if they suspect it has happened to them.
  
  
• "The Life Rage Report"
  We have the dubious honor of being the first in the world in all the wrong categories. The U.S. has; more incidences of murder and violent crimes, more divorces, abortions, teen suicides, sexually transmitted diseases, cocaine consumption, pornography production, more kids killing kids than any other nation in the "civilized" world. How did we get here? Where are we headed? Can we extricate ourselves from the frustrations, anger and helplessness? Or will our entire nation be swept away like some fallen Roman Empire? Tim Dimoff discusses findings from his soon-to-be-released book, "Life Rage: How to Protect Yourself and Your Children Against An Increasingly Angry Society."
  
  
• "Tracking the Deadbeat Dad"
  Substance abuse caused Pam Tanner to lose $800,000 in child support from a deadbeat ex-husband who was nowhere to be found. For 14 years he avoided paying child support as she feared for her family's safety and struggled to pay medical fees for two physically challenged children. When Tim Dimoff tracked him down, he found out the man not only had a good business, but had warmed up to several rich women and their families in Canada, England and the U.S. Living high on the hog in Cleveland, Ohio, he claims he suffers from a vindictive wife. Pam Tanner and Dimoff are available to tell this story publicly.
  
  
• "In Fear of September"
  Lisa Swanson's husband attempted to kill her and their daughter by driving his vehicle directly head on into her vehicle shortly after she picked up the child from his house. The divorce had just been finalized. Both wife and daughter were taken to hospital and the ex-husband fled on foot and was captured three days later. He got only three years in prison and is due to come out in September 2000. A sympathetic ex-cop is helping procure a new identity for Lisa and her daughter, at no charge. Why? As Tim Dimoff will tell you, he wants to see one less woman victimized by an enraged man. The ex-husband's letters and pagers he's sending from prison are ablaze with death threats. Can Tim Dimoff fend off the threats? She is from Ohio, now living in seclusion, and is very willing to go public.
  
  
• "Drugs: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"
  If the employee-to-be has hair, you've got his drug history in your hands. The only hair-testng drug lab to combine forces with pre-employment, safety and hiring services, Omega Laboratories, Inc. and SACS Consulting & Investigative Services, Inc. have forged a new alliance, Workplace Solutions Group, that gives corporations unprecedented control in hiring the right person for the job. Find out how drug testing and background checks are adding muscle to corporate legal cases, productivity, safety and hiring to firing issues. The alliance solves corporate headaches through drug testing and beyond: investigations, background checks, surveillance, health and safety policies, management training, drug policy development and conflict mediation all under one roof. Find out how this relatively new procedure works ... and what hair-raising facts come to light when a strand is tested.
  
  
• "Parenting Toward Drug-Free-dom"
  For the first time in American history, marijuana is the drug of choice over alcohol for teenagers in the U.S. The U.S. is only 6% of the world population but we consume approximately 60 to 70 % of all the world's illegal drugs. Heroin is on a big comeback since it went from a 4% purity to a 50-70% purity today. Hear 12 things every parent should avoid if they want drug-free children.
  
  
• "The Down Side of Drug-Free"
  When Branch Roofing Inc., located in Akron, Ohio, decided to put money second to ethical and moral concerns, they lost 2/3 of their workforce. But by offering rehabilitation, they gained a reputation and a 100 percent drug-free workplace in the end. But it nearly cost them their entire company's existence.....
  
  
• "School Violence: Government on the Hot Seat."
  At Littleton, Colorado, two 17-year-old boys procured two shotguns, an assault rifle and a TEC-9 assault pistol and shot 26 students, killing 13 of them before turning the guns on themselves. With school violence on the rise, Tim Dimoff identifies three courses of action schools can take to stem the tide. Tim talks about methods for controlling people flow, surveillance, and new emergency training that every school employee should know. He also reveals alarming statistics that explain the single most effective action the government could take to ensure safer schools: gun control.
  
  
• "Blasting Bad Backgrounds"
  Employees lose thousands of dollars per year hiring employees with bad backgrounds. With 5,000 Americans trying cocaine for the first time EVERY DAY in the U.S., what is the worst mistake an employer can make? Is drug testing and background checks and invasion of privacy? Tim Dimoff's real-life stories include this one: A disability-retired Akron, Ohio Police Officer started his own auto parts business. It was his longtime dream, but after only five years in business, he is going bankrupt because his key employee, disabled in a motorcycle accident, repaid his kindness by stealing him blind. In another case, a company executive can't figure out why the work isn't getting done on the night shift... until a private investigator reveals drugs smuggled in with the cleaning people at night. Learn the shocking methods employees use to sneak drugs and alcohol. And find out what the employers options are.
  
  
• "Working Stiffs"
  Tim Dimoff reveals six signs of deteriorating work performance and tells how pre-employment guidelines - most importantly a drug policy - can give employers more control over productivity and employee behavior. Workplace Violence is down, but employee on employee confrontations have increased ten-fold. Murder is the number one cause of death on the job for women and number two for men, and 40-47% of all industrial injuries and deaths are alcohol-related.
  
  
• "Re-training The Fried Brain"
  Where are the real "front lines" of an emergency battleground? Often behind a desk. Emergency communicators dispatch drunks, dramas, death-defying aid and dangerous assignments, doing battle just as surely as anyone on the scene. And they need training to keep their cool. Tim Dimoff gives sound advice and methods for disconnecting emotionally during crisis, especially when children are involved.