The investigator
Blue Mountain Private Investigators draws on its founder's records-driven investigative experience and a simple reality: consequential investigations are rarely solved by one interview or one official record. They are solved by reconstructing the entire system—documents, databases, communications, people, money, and time.
120,000+
Legal, medical, financial, and government-record pages examined in a single extended investigation.
20+ months
Independent, sustained investigation across institutions, record systems, and professional disciplines.
DPSST #133610
Principal investigator Levi Bakke is licensed in Oregon, based in La Grande, and available for records matters statewide.
Service under pressure
Levi Bakke served as an 0311 Infantry Rifleman and 8111 Small Boat Coxswain, deploying to Kuwait and Afghanistan from September 2001 through January 2002. That background informs the practice's approach: establish the objective, preserve the record, adapt when the plan fails, and remain accountable for the result.
Record-scale investigation
The founder's prior investigative work required the independent review of more than 120,000 legal, medical, financial, corporate, and government-record pages. Custom databases, chronology tools, source maps, and repeatable analysis kept individual facts connected to the documents that supported them. That experience now informs the practice's method.
Public accountability
Before establishing this practice, the founder successfully pursued Oregon Department of Justice public-records petition review as the designated requester, resulting in agency disclosure. That experience informs records requests, petition support, search-scope analysis, exemption testing, and reconstruction of what an agency did with a complaint or investigation.
Federal review literacy
The founder has developed and organized elder-safety, care-quality, and Medicare evidence for matters that reached federal CMS review. The value is not a promise of government action; it is experience with intake, evidence transfer, program routing, professional review, reconsideration, and the audit trail needed to test that process.
Guiding principle
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
— Elie Wiesel
Begin with names, organizations, and a short subject description so the matter can be screened before substantive information is shared.