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Attorney Terry Christensen was convicted along with private investigator Anthony Pellicano on August 29, 2008, as reported by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Law Blog.  According  to the criminal minutes from his trial, Mr. Christensen had been found guilty of his two-count indictment for violating 18 U.S.C. 371 (Conspiracy) and…

In "Army Major Arrested For Money Laundering", I described how Major John Cockerham and his wife Melissa Cockerham were prosecuted for a bribery / money laundering scheme.  According to their indictment, Major Cockerham had taken bribes as an Army Contracting Officer in Kuwait while awarding contracts for bottled water, etc.  Since their indictment, …

Mr. Reinaldo Cestero is a private investigator and a retired Chief Deputy United States Marshal, who works in Puerto Rico.  I asked Mr. Cestero about the superseding indictment filed in U.S.A. v. Acevedo-Vila, et. al., which charged Puerto Rico’s Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, (and /or twelve co-defendants), with: conspiracy; false statements; wire fraud;…

Parking assets offshore in one jurisdiction and then exercising control over them through another, sometimes indicates money laundering.  One example of how multiple jurisdictions may have been used to facilitate money laundering, is the case of  United States v. Proceeds of Crime Transferred to Certain Domestic Financial Accounts, U.S. District Court for the…

With more than 90 national chapters / chapters-in-formation since its founding in 1993, Transparency International is a lead group in the fight against the global white-collar crime of public corruption.  Transparency International publishes an annual "Corruption Perception Index" which ranks countries on a scale of "1" to "10" based on the perceptions of businessman and…

 
According to the Washington Post, U.S. Army Major John Cockerham, his sister, and wife were all recently arrested for hiding the proceeds of the largest bribery case in Iraq by money laundering.  As the Washington Post further mentioned, Major Cockerham allegedly received $9.6 million in bribe money, (and was awaiting another 5.4 million), for giving favorable contracts to military contractors.  The Washington Post also reported the

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