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A Step Toward Understanding Organized Crime

August 13, 2014April 29, 2015 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the ACAMS Book Hook column! The use of international trade facilities for smuggling and money laundering in the form of trade-based money laundering (TBML) has taken on renewed significance as cases continue to come to light where TBML and the Black Market...

In Focus, Riveting Reads

An Inside Look Into Cyber-Crime Threats

June 9, 2014May 22, 2017 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the ACAMS Book Hook column! In theme with the June-August 2014 Law Enforcement edition of ACAMS Today, this column focuses on the evolving trend of cyber-crime, specifically in mind of the recently well-publicized Target, Inc. credit card data breach in November/December 2013. The...

March – May 2014, Riveting Reads, Women in AFC

A Modern Day Heroine and Her Fight Against Human Trafficking

February 27, 2014April 29, 2015 /Leave a comment

The Road to Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam with a foreword by Nicholas D. Kristoff and an introduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali If there was ever a question as to what human trafficking (HT) is, Somaly Mam gives readers a firsthand account of her...

December 2013 – February 2014, Interviews, Riveting Reads

John Cassara: Author of Demons of Gadara

December 18, 2013May 7, 2015 /Leave a comment

John Cassara is a former covert intelligence officer and a Treasury Special Agent. Much of his career was spent overseas where he developed expertise in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance. Since his retirement, he has lectured in the United States and around the world...

Interviews, Riveting Reads, September 2013 - November 2013

Kenneth Rijock: Author of The Laundry Man

August 28, 2013April 4, 2018 /3 Comments

Rob Goldfinger had the opportunity to speak with Miami financial crime consultant Kenneth Rijock, whose first-person story, The Laundry Man details his decade as a career money launderer. Robert Goldfinger: In your book, The Laundry Man, you give a fascinating account of your journey from...

Reader's Corner, Riveting Reads, September 2011 – November 2011

Money Laundering a Central Character in the Financial Thriller, Clearing House

September 2, 2011May 7, 2015 /Leave a comment

Clearing House by Michael Lee Cannon Correspondent banking is considered a high risk typology by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for money laundering for several reasons, including the fact that astronomical amounts of money can come from many directions and the correspondent bank provides...