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Recently, we’ve actually seen a much
less aggressive approach from the
Department of Justice regarding money
laundering when it comes to
professionals or we can say white collar
individuals, people who are in the
business of conducting financial
transactions when it is in the financial
transaction or white collar space. So we
used to see a lot of money laundering
charges attached to healthc care fraud
charges or wire fraud charges. Now with
the current administration we are seeing
a much less focus on individuals who are
let’s say already alleged to have been
committing certain levels of complex
white collar fraud. And the focus now
has been on individuals who are money
laundering in order to facilitate the
goals of what the Department of Justice
and the United States currently
considers its enemies or its targets so
to speak. So the focus has much more
become on smaller scale individuals who
are laundering for much larger scale
more traditionally unlawful
organizations like gangs or cartels um
or just China and countries that the
United States has specific problems with
certainly Russia. Um, so we’re seeing
smaller scale cases but tied to much
larger organizations than just your
traditional individual who made a lot of
money through a Ponzi scheme or
investment scheme and is now moving that
money. That’s not the main focus right
now.
Boca Raton, FL criminal defense attorney David Tarras talks about how aggressive DOJ has become in prosecuting money laundering cases against secondary players.
