“Better Call Saul” & “Breaking Bad” remind us to look during asset searches for lawyers hiding money. In these fictional cable TV series, criminal defense lawyer Saul Goodman laundered money for meth maker Walter White & his co-conspirator Jesse Pinkman. At Breaking Bad’s Season 3, Episode 11 for example, Saul Goodman recommended washing illicit
Flowcharts In Your Asset Search
Make flowcharts in your asset search to show how your adversary has hidden money or other assets from you. The flowcharts in your asset search might document that
Divorce & Hidden Money: A Husband Thought To Be A Smurf
This 40th post in my Divorce & Hidden Money series mentions Mr. Vardan Keshishyan, who reportedly hid money from his divorcing wife by smurfing (a.k.a structuring ). In the context of money laundering, a smurf makes cash deposits below a bank’s threshold for reporting cash deposits to the government. By doing this the smurf
Track Hidden Money Senator Warren’s Plan Says
Last Tuesday Senator Warren released her plan to track hidden money & fight corruption. Money launderers, tax dodgers, narco-traffickers; terrorist financiers and other fraudsters can easily establish shell companies without disclosing who actually owns the shell companies. They open bank accounts and maintain the bank accounts in the names of the shell companies,
Asset Search Tips For Finding Hidden Money
Although I have many asset search tips for you, three stand out if you are trying to detect a large amount of hidden money or other high value assets. My asset search tips are that you recognize: competing claimants; compartmentalization and laundering links.
A) COMPETING CLAIMANTS
My first asset search tip is that you see
Your Asset Search Through Collecting Tips
During your asset search gather tips from witnesses who not only know about your adversary’s assets but are also at odds with your adversary. If you are litigating
A Laundry List For An Asset Search
Governmental authorities follow money trails in order to interdict assets hidden by narco-traffickers; money launderers; Ponzi schemers; tax fraudsters & other determined criminals. During your asset search, you can similarly follow a money trail to track assets which have been hidden from you. You might detect a money trail by scrutinizing data
Hiding Cash By Structuring Bank Deposits
In some situations, the transfer of large sums of cash is a red flag that assets have been hidden by money laundering. Government authorities therefore require banks to report their customers who transfer or exchange large sums of cash. For example, banks in the United States are required to report bank customers who deposit or
Using Real Estate To Wash & Hide Assets
“Searching For Assets Laundered Through Real Estate” shows how one divorcing husband washed & hid assets during his divorce. The following is a sanitized case study from the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. It is about “O” & “R” who may have similarly employed real estate in a scheme to hide assets.
Striking Out During Your Asset Search? Don’t Forget To Look At The Lawyers
The TV shanking of fictional lawyer Dan Wachsberger at Breaking Bad’s 54th episode. In the 53rd episode, Wachsberger hid monies in safety deposit boxes & became a DEA informant.
“Say My Name” is the 53rd episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad series & it showed fictional lawyer Dan Wachsberger hiding illicit