Peter Maheu

Peter Maheu loved to tell exciting stories about his late father, international spy Bob Maheu, and even worked for his father’s company, managing reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes’ vast Nevada gaming interests. Peter Maheu, a licensed private investigator in Nevada and California, became a world leader in assuring regulatory compliance in the gaming industry. Maheu was the president of Global Intelligence Network and oversaw thousands of intelligence investigations, including background checks of individuals seeking key casino jobs and positions in other businesses in more than 70 countries Early on, Peter worked for his dad’s company, Robert A. Maheu and Associates, where Peter played a major role in the management of not only Hughes’ gaming properties but in Hughes’ vast Nevada real estate and mining interests. Much of what are now high-end residential communities in northwest Las Vegas were built on land Hughes purchased as barren desert. After breaking out on his own, Peter Maheu founded — and was president of — Trademark Protection Services, where he specialized in preventing trademark and copyright infringement on his clients’ brands. TPS was said to have been at one time the nation’s largest firm of its type, with 30 offices nationwide that each employed a cadre of investigators and attorneys. Maheu’s clients included such business giants as 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Co., Mirage Studios and Hard Rock Café. At the time of his death, Maheu was chairman and CEO of QSI Specialists, a large Nevada mystery-shopping company. Peter Maheu’s survivors include his wife, Rosemary. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.