Today’s "Asset Search News Roundup" examines the criminal investigation into HSBC and the SEC’s case against Kenneth Wayne McLeod’s estate:

  • "U.S. Widens Tax Inquiry Into HSBC" reports that prosecutors are "ramping up their criminal investigation" of HSBC after U.S. taxpayers allegedly used foreign HSBC accounts to hide undeclared assets. My April

Discussed today are Arizona’s attempt to stop cross-border crime and Minneapolis Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook:

The financial fraud investigation connected to Minneapolis money manager Trevor Cook is thought to have widened; Andrew B. Silva is sentenced in Virginia for tax fraud; and the delay in disclosing the names of some UBS AG bank customers:

If A Judge Can See Your Assets, He Can Seize Them“, mentioned that shell companies formed in Nevada, Wyoming or Delaware especially lacked transparency because in these states there are virtually no reporting requirements about company managers, shareholders, etc.

Some beneficial owners therefore anonymously establish Nevada, Wyoming, or Delaware shell companies and then

This "Asset Search News Roundup" highlights an updated tax protocol, a $40 million dollar asset recovery and the sentencing of New York securities fraudster Matthew D. Weitzman:

  1. On May 27, 2010 the Organisation For Economic Co-Operation And Development announced that the United States and ten other countries agreed to an updated tax protocol which provides

An alleged Guatemalan drug lord and Peter Madoff are the subjects of the May 26th “Asset Search News Roundup”:

Suing Peter Madoff For Bernard Madoff’s Securities Fraud” described plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion pending against Peter Madoff in The Lautenberg Foundation v. Madoff, 09-Civ-00816.  Pages 8-10 of a May 20th reply memorandum shows

Today’s “Asset Search News Roundup” discusses my next speaking engagement and asset forfeiture:

  • At the New York County Lawyers’ Association, 14 Vesey Street, New York City, on May 25, 2010, I will present “Ethically Accessing Financial Intelligence From Warsaw To Wilmington, In Criminal & Civil Cases”.  It examines the financial fraud investigations of Ponzi schemer

Concealing assets through yachts / aircraft and the 2010 Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual are on the radar in this “Asset Search News Roundup”:

  • Beneficial owners sometimes fraudulently conceal their assets by secretly purchasing a valuable yacht or aircraft.  They may then establish a Delaware or other shell company and use a