U.S. Renews Real-Estate Data Targeting Order
The U.S. Treasury Department extended for another six months a data- collection program to aid a crackdown on money laundering in real estate.
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Federal regulator renews real estate money laundering dragnet in South Florida
In its continuing effort to crackdown on real estate money laundering, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it will renew an order requiring title companies to identify the natural persons behind companies in residential currency transactions of $1 million or more in South Florida.
States Keep Passing Laws On Marijuana As Anti-Marijuana Leaders Take Over
The states may be pushing forward with more legalization of marijuana, but Washington, D.C., might be stepping back. The marijuana business community has a mixed outlook regarding how the new administration will address their emerging multimillion-dollar industry.
Will Trump end crackdown on dirty cash in luxury real estate?
Just a month after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a federal anti-money laundering program that targets luxury real estate is set to expire.
Federal Litigation Update: Amendments to the Local Rules for the Southern District of Florida Go Into Effect December 1, 2016
On November 4. 2016, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued Administrative Order 2016-56 announcing several amendments to the Local Rules of the Southern District of Florida.
MSB Regulatory Update: Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Florida and its Continuing Effect on Check Cashers
As we previously reported here, in 2011, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the creation of the “MSB Facilitated Workers’ Compensation Fraud Workgroup” to develop comprehensive reforms to combat workers’ compensation fraud schemes and close loopholes that allowed MSBs to be exploited by individuals committing workers’ compensation premium fraud.
Paul Vigna & Michael Casey, “The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order,” 258-59 (2015)
Featured In – Paul Vigna & Michael Casey, “The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order,” 258-59 (2015). Link available here: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Kv8CBAAAQBAJ&rdid=book-Kv8CBAAAQBAJ&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport
The Money Services Banking Crisis: A Complex Solution for a Simple Problem
Money services businesses, a broad category of nonbank financial institutions running the gamut from brick-and-mortar money transmitters, check cashers and currency exchangers to more modern e-wallet and prepaid access providers and bitcoin exchangers, provide millions of Americans with financial services they cannot receive from banks.
What’s Worse Than Pot Staying Illegal? Pot as an FDA-Regulated Drug
By Will Yakowicz The end of marijuana prohibition is coming. But how the federal policies will change could have a dramatic effect on the nation’s burgeoning legal marijuana businesses, which could […]
Asset Forfeiture Update
March of 2016 was a busy month for the law governing asset forfeitures. First, at the national level, in Luis v. United States, the United States Supreme Court ruled that […]
