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Thanks to CSI, Joel Rakower is cool. That's because he's in the field of forensic accounting, and the hit TV show has made anything remotely tangential to the word forensic exciting.
I just sort of fell into this niche in the late 1980s, said Rakower, president of Financial Appraisal Services Ltd. in Commack. I was a CPA who basically got out of accounting.
What he and his partner, Nannette Watts, do is appraise businesses and intangible assets in about 100...





