Investigating & Recovering Hidden Money & Other Assets
Mentioned by this "Asset Search News Roundup" are: bearer instruments such as money orders, structuring cash deposits and a possible financial fraud at one national chapter of Transparency International:
*The article "Accused St. Louis drug ring leader pleads guilty of money laundering", explained that Mr. Julius Turrentine was suspected of using bearer…
O.J. Simpson’s Pro Football Hall of Fame ring; a report that Minnesota could even suffer because of Bernard Madoff’s suspected $50 billion Ponzi scheme; and Liechtenstein’s new Tax Information Exchange Agreement; are the focus of this "Asset Search News Roundup":
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Past "Asset Search News Roundups" described different schemes in which assets have been hidden. This "Asset Search News Roundup" is similarly about the criminal complaint filed against Illinois Governor Blagojevich, which raises among other things, the question of whether Governor Blagojevich had possibly considered hiding / dissipating assets.
While the criminal complaint against Governor Blagojevich…
Ex-N.Y.P.D. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and Puerto Rico’s Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila are among the many indicted for allegedly hiding assets during public corruption and tax fraud schemes. This "Asset Search News Roundup" is an update about the criminal cases pending against both of them.
The Daily News reported that a superseding indictment was filed…
Hiding assets in offshore or foreign bank accounts, is the focus of this "Asset Search News Roundup". As I explained in "Using Multiple Jurisdictions To Launder Money", a common method of hiding assets is "putting assets offshore in one jurisdiction and exercising control over them through another". Those using multiple jurisdictions to hide…
This "Asset Search News Roundup" is about a former president detained because he may have hidden illicit assets by laundering them; a Bollywood film producer who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering; and a Pennsylvania jury deliberates over the case against an ex-Pennsylvania judge:
1) As described at my post "White-Collar Crime…
"Using Divorce To Dissipate Assets & Delay Creditors", explains that a debtor may use a divorce settlement to impede an asset search or forced collection proceeding. This week’s "Asset Search News Roundup" is about a convicted murderer who may have used his divorce in this same way. It also discusses some new Tax…
An asset search may reveal assets concealed by a public corruption scheme; cash smuggling; or money laundering. Accordingly, this "Asset Search News Roundup" examines the following:
(A) On October 28, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on a criminal complaint for public corruption. As reported at "FBI: Photos Show Massachusetts Lawmaker Stuffing…
This Asset Search News Roundup discusses: hiding assets through International Business Corporations; the continued restraint of Dennis Kozlowski’s assets; and the guilty verdict against Senator Ted Stevens for concealing his home renovations and other gifts:
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Some people commit identity theft or aggravated identity theft and then hide their illicit gains by laundering them. This Asset Search News Roundup is therefore about both identity theft and money laundering:
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