About YBR
YBR stands for Yellow Brick Road and signifies two things: a nod to the founding expert’s name, Dorothy, and the need for a clear path forward when navigating matrimonial disputes, complex commercial disputes, or occupational fraud investigations.
YBR has been engaged on over 50 litigation disputes involving cryptocurrency assets and blockchain companies.
MISSION STATEMENT: Everyone deserves good math.
MISSION: To provide efficient litigation support services in a cost-effective manner: financial forensics, blockchain forensics, digital forensics, OSINT background research, and other private investigative services.
HOW? Our billing practices are novel for this industry. Where we bill on a task basis, others bill on a person basis. A person basis means that if a partner is reviewing a document, it costs more than if an associate reviews the same document for the same amount of time. This is a common billing model but at YBR, we feel it does not accurately reflect the cost of the work performed.
At YBR, we bill on a task basis, which means the cost of any task is the same regardless of who performs the work. Billing is tiered such that complex tasks such as trial appearances and deposition testimony are billed at higher rates than reviewing documents or asset tracing. We feel the task basis more accurately reflects work performed.
tl;dr YBR has task-based billing, not person-based.
YBR performs blockchain forensics, digital forensics, and financial forensics. Financial forensics is a broad term for financial analysis related to litigation and disputes. It includes asset tracing, damage models, post-separation accounting, discovery assistance, forensic accounting, and more. Blockchain forensics involves the analysis of blockchain transactions, assets, or entities, as it relates to litigation and disputes. Digital forensics is the process of gathering data stored on devices and results in files known as images (not .jpg or .gif), which are forensically sound, bit-for-bit copies of a device (file types are .dd, .e01, and others).
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Dorothy Haraminac
MBA, MAFF, CFE, CCI, PI
Ms. Dorothy Haraminac provides consulting and expert witness testimony, builds damage models for complex commercial disputes, and provides tracing and valuation for high net worth, tech-centric matrimonial cases. She conducts fraud investigations, performs risk assessments, and volunteers her time to train other professionals on emerging trends in blockchain, cybersecurity, and crypto tracing.
Her forensic accounting engagements, including those with cryptocurrency at issue, occur nationwide in both equitable distribution and community property states. Ms. Haraminac serves on the Advisory Board for the College of Science and Engineering at Houston Christian University (HCU), the Editorial Board for The Value Examiner, and the Editorial Board for NACVA’s QuickRead. She volunteers her time to develop and present training programs for law enforcement, attorneys, and accountants on cybercrime risk, blockchain compliance, and cryptocurrency investigations (now becoming known as blockchain forensics), and is a professor of Cyber Engineering. She also served as Chairman of the Litigation Forensics Board for NACVA, where she spearheaded the direct acknowledgement of military experience in lieu of a degree for MAFF credential qualifications, making it one of the first NASBA-accredited financial credentials to directly accept military experience without a separate degree.
YBR does not provide attestation services, tax advice, legal advice, or investment advice and is not a CPA firm.
MBA - Master’s Degree in Business Administration (Decision and Information Science)
MAFF - Master Analyst in Financial Forensics, maintained through NACVA
CFE - Certified Fraud Examiner, maintained through ACFE
CCI - Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, maintained through Blockchain Intelligence Group
PI - Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas