June - August 2014 Archives

Detective Marie Fulop holds a master’s degree in criminal justice with an emphasis in abnormal psychology/behavioral science. Detective Fulop is currently employed with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, assigned full time to the United States Secret Service. Her second job is working at Rasmussen College...

AFC Challenges, June - August 2014

Elder Abuse: Out of the Shadows and into the Law Enforcement Spotlight

June 9, 2014March 6, 2015

Elder abuse has long been a crime that has gone unreported. But regulators, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors are turning their focus on this crime and bringing it out of the shadows to make it easier for elderly victims to report the crime and...

Compliance, June - August 2014

Afghanistan: A Detective’s Story

June 9, 2014March 6, 2015

The sun had not yet peaked over the horizon as we stepped off the terminal shuttle bus and onto the tarmac of the Dubai International Airport. We were preparing for the final leg of our long flight from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Kandahar, Afghanistan....

Compliance, June - August 2014

The Secret Life of AML

June 9, 2014March 6, 2015

Perhaps no other aspect of the Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) is harped on more than the need of secrecy. It is the “S” in BSA that is the one aspect of AML that all sectors from the financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement...

June - August 2014, Practical Solutions

Show, Don’t Tell

June 9, 2014March 6, 2015

As the leader of a multijurisdictional suspicious activity report (SAR) review team, I read dozens and sometimes hundreds of SARs at a time. Like a programmer reading lines of code, my brain has learned to interpret large swaths of data into pictures or images....

AFC Challenges, June - August 2014

Interstate Funnel Accounts – Raising the Money off the Streets

June 9, 2014March 6, 2015

Over the past few years, the money laundering trend known as "interstate funnel accounts" has grown in popularity particularly among drug and alien smuggling organizations. Interstate funnel accounts, or interstate cash accounts, are currently one of the most efficient means for drug and human...

Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews, June - August 2014

Human Trafficking: If You See Something, Say Something

June 6, 2014October 20, 2022

ACAMS Today spoke with Tonja Marshall, supervisory special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations; Barbara Martinez, assistant United States attorney, chief of the Special Prosecutions Section in the Miami United States Attorney’s Office; and Mr. Carmen Pino, assistant special agent in...

Interviews, June - August 2014

Building a Better Partnership

June 6, 2014March 6, 2015

ACAMS Today spoke with Detective Constable Michael Kelly, Detective Constable Dwayne King and Peter Warrack, director of AML FIU for Bank of Montreal Financial Group, about the importance of partnerships between financial institutions (FIs) and law enforcement (LE) and their experiences in the financial...

AFC Challenges, June - August 2014

More Bumps in the Road for Bitcoin: Is it the end of the beginning?

June 6, 2014October 19, 2015

The speed of change in virtual currency is fast. Articles are written and immediately require revisions. The Wikipedia model for continuously updated posts is perhaps the ideal medium for writing on virtual currencies. This is especially true in the case of Mt. Gox, a...

Compliance, June - August 2014

Postal Inspectors Redouble Efforts to Deter Money Laundering

June 6, 2014March 6, 2015

There is a small agency packing a big punch in the fight against money laundering: Meet the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). Agents of USPIS are federal postal inspectors, who form the law enforcement, crime prevention and security arm of the U.S. Postal Service...

ACAMS Today

The Magazine for Career-Minded Professionals in the Anti-Financial Crime Field

How imposter fraud has evolved with AI tools

Why you should make your boss’ life easier

FinCEN’s mandate for AML/BSA programs: Risk intelligence platforms

Closing the agility gap: Why compliance cannot keep up in the “launderverse”

The effects of recent enforcement actions and FinCEN’s real estate regulations

Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

June – August 2014

Marie Fulop, M.S., CFE—Fort Myers, FL, USA

Elder Abuse: Out of the Shadows and into the Law Enforcement Spotlight

Afghanistan: A Detective’s Story

The Secret Life of AML

Show, Don’t Tell

Interstate Funnel Accounts – Raising the Money off the Streets

Human Trafficking: If You See Something, Say Something

Building a Better Partnership

More Bumps in the Road for Bitcoin: Is it the end of the beginning?

Postal Inspectors Redouble Efforts to Deter Money Laundering