Welcome to Technical Post # 5: The Three Stages of Money Laundering OK, many of us have seen movies or TV shows where counterfeiters throw money into large dryers with poker chips or dice or some other items to make the bills appear to have been out in circulation when in fact they’ve just been […]
Welcome to Technical Post # 6: Refining Obviously, one of the challenges for a drug dealer is physically handling the money. The fewer bills in play, the fewer counting, handling, moving and storing issues one faces. That was a major reason the United States took all denominations over the $100 bill out of circulation 40 […]
On Friday (12/4), I delivered a presentation to over 100 lawyers during an all-day seminar they were attending for their continuing education requirements. My segment ran about 30 minutes. The rest of this blog is a reprint of my comments. My profile on LinkedIn (Paul Freeman, CPA, CAMS) has the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied it, […]
Welcome to topical post 2: “Willful Blindness.” Last time, we learned that an integral component of the definition of money laundering is the “knowledge” that the money is of illicit origin. However, in the United States (and other jurisdictions around the world), the concept of willful blindness now can be employed by law enforcement. For […]
