Mr. RAPP: Some clients even said now I don't want you to break any laws.
Rapp freely admits he sometimes broke the law to get the records he wanted.
Mr. JAMES RAPP (Private investigator): Of course, you had to impersonate, you had to lie.
"I wouldn't advise the faint of heart or faint of pocketbook to enter this business, " warns Rapp.
By pretexting, or pretending to be someone else, Rapp could get phone records, bank records, even medical records.
Rapp started selling DNA in bars and a variety of stores last April the company's best-planned rollout to date.
Perhaps Mr Rapp, with the benefit of years of research and a big team of investigators, has got it.
Mr. RAPP: My first contact may be let's go over the last bill, did you get a payment for it.
They have invited Stephen Rapp, an American diplomat looking into war-crimes issues, to visit Dhaka next month to assess the proceedings himself.
Before he plead guilty to racketeering charges in Colorado in 1999, Rapp says his company was grossing about a million dollars a year.
Mr. RAPP: I want to equate it in that respect to the NFL. Everybody wants to try out, very few can make it.
Still veteran pretexter Rapp doubts any new law will completely stop the practice, so long as someone, like HP, has a need for the information.
"In the law firm industry in New York today, there's a little bit of a seesaw effect, " says Ken Rapp, a broker in CBRE Group Inc.
Carlson Marketing trails only Rapp Collins Worldwide in the segment.
Adam Rapp sported red socks, and Terrence McNally donned green from head to toe, a happy coincidence for an evening about when, where and how to stop and go.
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Yolanda Rapp, 42, of Manhattan, for example, sells new fashions and vintage Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent from Le Fashion Coupe at the GreenFlea Market on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Next stop: Madison Avenue, as director of global business development for Omnicon's DM powerhouse Rapp Collins, where he orchestrated direct-to-consumer campaigns for products like Mercedes Benz M Class and Pfizer's Viagra.
Currently accounting for 40% of its business, Rapp foresees enhanced services becoming Cape.com's entire business within a couple of years, as the telephone and cable companies move aggressively into the access market.
"There are a lot of companies in the business of grabbing as many people as possible with low flat-rate pricing, so when the big boys come to town they can sell their subscriber base and move to the Caribbean, " says Rapp.
Ten years later Rapp, the ceo of Wet Planet Beverages in Rochester, New York, was in the news again for rolling out XTC, an energy drink for club-hoppers (it's loaded with the caffeine-rich guarana berry) that shares the name of a recreational drug.
Returning home from a trip to that continent, Rapp contacted a larger beverage company in Rochester, Constellation Brands (formerly Canandaigua Brands), about helping him secure the U.S. license for DNA. The publicly held Constellation put up an undisclosed amount of cash last year in exchange for 30% of DNA's profit.
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