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How the Trump Administration’s War on Cartels Will Reshape the Financial Sector

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/24/2025

On March 11, 2025, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed at disrupting drug trafficking and money laundering along the southwestern border. The...more

FinCEN Issues Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order Aimed to Combat Mexican-based Drug Cartels

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/18/2025

We have written previously about the new administration’s significant shifts in its approach to criminal enforcement and prosecution of money laundering cases. Specifically, we wrote about shifts at the U.S. Department of...more

Combatting Fraud and Corruption in the NFT Market

BakerHostetler on 8/31/2022

On Oct. 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the creation of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to tackle investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency. As the non-fungible...more

The DOJ Pulls the Rug on the Frosties NFT Founders

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 4/1/2022

On March 24, 2022, the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged two individuals for their alleged participation in a scheme to defraud purchasers of non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) known as...more

FinCEN Announces National AML/CFT Policy Priorities

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/7/2021

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on June 30, 2021, issued national priorities for anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) policy (the Priorities), as required by the...more

DOJ Cyber-Digital Task Force Releases Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 10/13/2020

Building off a 2018 alert outlining cyber threats generally, and following the federal indictment for money laundering of the founders of the offshore cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, on Oct. 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of...more

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