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News stories on federal money laundering, reports submitted by the Department of Justice, as required by the Fraud Enforcement & Recovery Act (FERA)
NACDL has proposed several technical statutory amendments to rectify the money laundering regime’s most serious flaws by simplifying and clarifying current law, facilitating compliance efforts by individuals and businesses, and by focusing federal law enforcement on serious misconduct. [Released August 2001]
White collar financial and economic cases can involve voluminous and confusing documents, but these cases need not be feared. The authors discuss the importance of financial records received as well as exculpatory records that are sometimes not provided. Is it a criminal case, a civil case, or just a bad investment? The answer is almost always somewhere in the documents.
Board member and Forfeiture Committee chair David B. Smith's written statement to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security regarding international money laundering and the U.S. financial system.
Letter with the Heritage Foundation to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding prosecutions of public corruption and the changes proposed in the Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act (S. 49, 2009).
Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding overcriminalizing and overcharging outlined in the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2019 (S. 1883).
NACDL Board member Barry Pollack's written statement to the House Judiciary Committee regarding federal criminal fraud laws.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of Defendants-Appellants in Support of Affirmance of Dismissal of money laundering conspiracy count.
Arguing, inter alia, that the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation of the term “proceeds” as limited to profits is consistent with congressional intent and necessary to prevent defendants from inappropriately being punished twice (and more severely) for the same conduct.
Brief of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NACDL and FACDL) as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner (On Petition for Writ of Certiorari).
Brief of Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Reversing Money Laundering Convictions of Appellant, James Michael Farrell
Supreme Court Narrows "Money Laundering" Law -- Washington, DC (June 2, 2008) -- In two opinions today, the Supreme Court significantly pared back the reach and scope of the money-laundering statute (18 U.S.C. §1956) and has in the process reinvigorated an old and glorious defense – the rule of lenity.
