How the queries are built
Each query is the name in quotation marks plus one family of terms joined by an uppercase OR, with every word form written out (laundering and laundered, not launder*). Google Guide, an independent reference, says Google ignores an asterisk that is not surrounded by spaces, limits queries to 32 words, and treats a lowercase or as an ordinary word (the * operator, interpreting your query, the OR operator); Google's own search help documents quotation marks, the minus sign and after:. Every query here stays under 32 words, and the count is shown next to it.
For a company, the builder also searches the name without its legal suffix (Northwind Freight Brokers instead of Northwind Freight Brokers LLC), because news stories rarely print the suffix. For an individual with a middle name or initial, it adds the first and last name alone. Add other spellings, former names and DBAs yourself.
Offence terms (fraud, bribery) find less noise than stage terms (charged, sentenced). The Wolfsberg Group's Negative News Screening FAQs make the same point about generic words that “refer to stages of a crime rather than crime itself” (question 19), which is why criminal case stages are a separate family you can switch off.
After you search
Open each query, review the results, and classify each relevant one as a confirmed match, a potential match or a false positive, with the identifier that decided it; or record that no material adverse information was found. The adverse media screening guide covers matching, judging a real hit and what to keep. Copy the search log below the queries into the vendor record when you are done.
The builder runs in your browser and sends nothing to this site. When you open a link, the query, including the name, goes to Google as any search does.