According to Orlando Sentinel
Casey Anthony filed paperwork this month to start a private investigation company in West Palm Beach, state business records show.
Anthony is listed as the registered agent of Case Research & Consulting Services, LLC, which filed its first documents Dec. 14 with an effective date of Jan. 1. The Daily Mail first reported the development Wednesday afternoon.
The business is registered to a home owned by Patrick McKenna, according to county property records.
McKenna was the lead investigator on Anthony’s defense team during her 2011 trial on allegations of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008.
Anthony was acquitted of the murder charge alongside charges of aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a child but found guilty on four counts of providing false information to law enforcement officers in the course of Caylee’s missing person investigation.
Anthony has worked for McKenna over the past few years, telling the Associated Press in 2017 she did “online social media searches and investigative work” for him.
State business records show Anthony previously registered another business to McKenna’s address in 2015, a photography company called Case Photography that was dissolved in 2018.
State records show Anthony is not currently licensed as a private investigator in Florida. The licensure process includes passing an examination on state laws, holding at least two years of work experience in the investigative field and passing a background check.
According to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates the licensing of private investigators, applicants for a Class C Private Investigator License may not have been convicted of an offense “punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year” until applicants have had their civil rights restored and 10 years have passed since they were released from supervision.
Additionally, applicants can be denied for having a history of “being arrested for crimes of violence and/or found guilty of … directly related crimes.”