A U.K-based law firm representing a deceased billionaire engaged LexPro Research shortly after two U.S.-based lawyers purported to represent the deceased billionaire’s business interests in the U.S. LexPro Research’s work quickly revealed the U.S.-based lawyers had a history making similar bogus claims in some type of white collar extortion scheme. Further research revealed one of the lawyers was suspected of money laundering for Russian organized crime and that he had likely falsified his legal degree from Russia. Additional efforts revealed that two individuals who accompanied the “lawyers” to a meeting with the client in New York, were nothing more than one lawyer’s wife and the other “lawyer’s” girlfriend.