Placement is the first stage of the three stages of money laundering. At this stage, criminals attempt to enter the ‘dirty’ money into the financial system. This process can be dangerous because large ...

For much of his career as a federal drug agent, Ray Donovan had a singular focus: the capture of Mexican cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. When Guzman was finally arrested in early 2014, fentanyl ...

U.S. trade policy is now synonymous with tariff policy. President Trump’s latest round of higher taxes on imports went into effect on Aug. 7, and the 40 countries with which the U.S. runs a trade ...

Europe has big plans to combat money laundering, but its history of tackling the illicit flow of dirty cash through its financial system is decidedly checkered. Estimates vary wildly about how much ...

A Justice Department investigation into TD Bank’s internal controls focuses on how Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers used the Canadian lender to launder money from U.S. fentanyl sales. The ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 11: A branch of the Canadian based TD bank, on the morning they plead guilty to money laundering, the largest bank in United States history to do so, on October 11, 2024, ...