Tweet The US has charged a Canadian woman for failing to report the transportation of more than USD$10,000 cash in the country as required by US anti-money laundering legislation. The woman, Moura El-Asmar, is alleged to have sewn $39,000 into her bra and to have attempted to enter the US wearing that bra. She is […]
Tweet Escort Agency indicted New York’s attorney general has indicted several corporations and 19 people in connection with an alleged prostitution and money laundering operation in New York and New Jersey that provided escort services and drugs. Several of the people indicted included clients who used the services, escorts, chauffeurs, den keepers and the shareholders […]
Tweet In a much anticipated move, Kim Rothstein, the so-called “free-spending” wife of Scott Rothstein, the Florida lawyer convicted of money laundering for running a Ponzi scheme through his now-defunct law firm, has been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Kim Rothstein’s lawyer, Scott Saidel and her close friend, Stacie Weisman, were also charged […]
Tweet Judge extradited for suspected money laundering Colin Dines, a retired British judge and former criminal law lawyer, is being extradited from London to Rome to face charges by an Italian magistrate that he was part of a transnational criminal organization complicit in laundering £344 million at the behest of the Mafia. In 2010, an […]
Tweet The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced the filing today of money laundering and prostitution charges against several Philadelphia-based companies, R.S. Duffy Inc. and National A-1 Advertising Inc., that allegedly ran an escort service from the website escorts.com. The companies entered into a plea agreement in respect of money laundering conspiracy charges and […]
Tweet James Rosemond, also known as Jimmy Henchman, a well-known hip-hop talent manager for several singers, including Sean Kingston and The Game, was charged at the beginning of July by the U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York, on money laundering and other charges in a thirteen-count superseding indictment based on allegations that […]
Tweet The news on Friday that the U.S. had indicted 11 individuals associated with the operation of the Internet gambling sites PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker for violations of U.S. gambling and anti-money laundering laws and bank fraud, has raised questions about the future of the funds held by those entities on behalf […]
Tweet The U.S. Attorney and the FBI today unsealed an indictment today charging 3 Canadians with money laundering, bank fraud and illegal gambling in connection with the operation of Internet gambling websites that provide online gambling services to U.S. residents. Eight other individuals, mostly residents of the U.S., were also indicted. The defendants include the […]
Tweet Marc-Andre Cusson, a resident of Sutton, Quebec, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Vermont for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering operation in Canada and the U.S. Cusson was accused of being the ringleader in the operation that imported tons of marijuana to the U.S. and smuggled millions of […]
Tweet The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld an order extraditing Suresh Sriskandarajah, also known as “Waterloo Suresh”, to the U.S. to face allegations of terrorist financing and money laundering. Sriskandarajah is a Sri Lankan former refugee who immigrated to Canada twenty years ago. He was arrested in 2006 as a result of a joint […]