All three Caveat Research, LLC. partners count the James Mintz Group as our alma mater and first foray into the investigative business. Last week the company made an interesting hire for it's Washington, DC office - John Mintz, long-time Washington Post journalist and brother of company founder, Jim Mintz. The annoucement follows...

NEWS RELEASE: JOHN MINTZ, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER AT THE WASHINGTON POST, TO JOIN PRIVATE INVESTIGATIVE FIRM

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2005

The James Mintz Group, a leading investigative services firm, today announced that John Mintz, a senior investigative reporter at The Washington Post, will join the Mintz Group in August as a senior investigator.

Founded in 1994 by James Mintz, John Mintz's younger brother, the Mintz Group investigates on behalf of corporate officers, investment bankers, and their legal and financial advisors. John Mintz will be based in the firm's Washington office, where he will report to James H. Rowe, Executive Vice President and Managing Partner of that office.

"John Mintz's two decades of experience as an investigative reporter at one of the world's great newspapers are ideal preparation for the work we do for our clients before deals, during litigation and after frauds," said Mr. Rowe. "Moreover, the Mintz Group is doing more and more public record analysis in high-stakes public policy debates, and this work is right up John's alley as well. We are delighted to welcome John to the Mintz Group team."

"The work of an investigative reporter and that of a private investigator in the business world are very similar," John Mintz said. "In both cases, you have to win people's trust so they'll talk to you, and dig out facts from a variety of sources. It also helps if you can then express yourself clearly, so readers and, now, clients can understand the significance of what you've unearthed."

Mr. Mintz, 52, joined the Post in January 1983 as a police reporter, and later covered District of Columbia government, served as the Post's Arlington, Va., bureau chief, and investigated Lyndon LaRouche, local savings & loan disasters and the wave of U.S. espionage cases in the mid-1980s, as well as covering real-estate development. In 1989, he became an assistant city editor, where he oversaw coverage of the District's police, crime and the courts. He also helped edit coverage of the investigation and trial of Washington Mayor Marion Barry.

In January 1992, Mr. Mintz joined the Post's business news department, where he covered telecommunications as well as the presidential candidacy that year of Ross Perot. After the election, he started covering the defense industry. In 1997, he became a projects reporter for the national staff, covering issues of money in politics and lobbying. After 9-11-01, he started covering terrorism and homeland security, and continued to do so until July 2005.

Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Bethesda, Md., John Mintz received both a bachelor of arts and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Chevy Chase, Md., with his wife and daughter.

The James Mintz Group, Inc. has offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, London, San Francisco and Miami.

Best of luck to John from The Daily Caveat as he joins our friends at JMG, DC.

-- MDT

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