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How FinCEN and Bank, Business and Credit Card Records Lead You to Assets and Fronts for Bad Guys

There are many sources of valuable financial records and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is near the top of the list. Each year it receives millions of reporting forms from financial institutions, businesses and individuals detailing suspicious activity, large currency transactions, cash receipts by a trade or business, foreign bank accounts, international money movements and other financial intelligence. Financial institutions must also keep many records, such as account statements, wire transfer transactions, signature cards and many others that shed light on assets, beneficial owners and other asset and link-related information. Knowing how to obtain and analyze this data and financial records from banks, securities dealers, insurance companies, mutual funds, money transmitters and other businesses is crucial. Except for the Suspicious Activity Report, FinCEN forms may be subpoenaed in civil litigation. In this panel, experts guide you on what lies in these information goldmines and how to use it.

Speakers: Bill Bradley, Bill Olsen, Marilyn Peterson, Ed Rodriguez
Moderator: Courtney Linn

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Unleashing the Equitable Powers of Courts to Find and Recover Hidden Assets – Civil Search Warrants, Break and Search Orders and More

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How Good Early Case Assessment Can Maximize the Value of E-Discovery in Asset Recovery Cases

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The Ethical Approach to Asset Forfeiture - Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason

You'll get a great introduction to the basics of asset forfeiture^* and learn how to build a strong foundation that allows your department to implement best practices and achieve superior results in dealing a knockout blow to criminals. Top professionals will give you a sound understanding of asset forfeiture^* and how you can utilize it effectively to increase seizures and reduce crime.

This 40-minute on-demand training video includes slide handouts that follow the presentation, as well as a background guide which gives you more information on the topic.
 

Speakers:

James A. Cox
A much-decorated Sergeant and Supervisor of the Asset Forfeiture^* Unit of the Fairfax County Police Department, Virginia, he brought the department from disgrace to a high level of respect and trust from other police departments and US law enforcement agencies. He played an instrumental role in the investigation and prosecution of the former lead detective for asset forfeiture^*, who embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars of seized assets.

John Murphy
Principal of Murphy Partners LLC, Wilmington, North Carolina, and a leading expert in developing and integrating strategic asset forfeiture^* programs, he was Commander of the elite Organized Crime Investigation Division and Asset Forfeiture^* Unit of the New York City Police Department. Managing and directing 20 teams that conducted complex financial investigations, he implemented a proactive asset forfeiture^* program that helped achieve a dramatic reduction in crime in New York City.

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Asset Forfeiture 101- Seizing the Criminals Dirty Money and Other Assets

In this live on-demand training, experts provide hands on guidance on how you can develop and implement a proactive asset forfeiture^* strategy to turn the tide against criminals and improve your asset forfeiture^* effectiveness. You will learn how to shift away from a reactive approach where you only seize what the criminals are willing to surrender. Instead, we'll show you the elements of a proactive strategy that puts you in the driver's seat. By shifting from defense to offense you can effectively attack criminal organizations, reduce crime in your community and strengthen your agency.

You'll get a great introduction to the basics of asset forfeiture^* and learn how to build a strong foundation that allows your department to implement best practices and achieve superior results in dealing a knockout blow to criminals. Top professionals will give you a sound understanding of asset forfeiture^* and how you can utilize it effectively to increase seizures and reduce crime.

Speakers

Charles Intriago
Founder of AssetRecoveryWatch.com and the International Association for Asset Recovery^* (IAAR,) he launched Money Laundering Alert in 1989, moneylaundering.com in 1996, and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) in 2001, the world's leading credentialing organization for persons with money laundering control responsibilities.

John Murphy
Principal of Murphy Partners LLC, Wilmington, North Carolina, and a leading expert in developing and integrating strategic asset forfeiture^* programs, he was Commander of the elite Organized Crime Investigation Division and Asset Forfeiture^* Unit of the New York City Police Department. Managing and directing 20 teams that conducted complex financial investigations, he implemented a proactive asset forfeiture^* program that helped achieve a dramatic reduction in crime in New York City.

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Asset Recovery Secrets of the Internet Revealed

The Internet, the most potent information and intelligence tool, is still underutilized and misunderstood by many investigators and analysts. Many treasures lie beneath the "surface Web" that can reveal information that opens the door to important assets and linkages. During this training session, you will receive fascinating and invaluable tools, tips and techniques using this amazing, virtually free 24/7 tool.

Would you like to see what the public records in a far-flung country reveal or what a website that is no longer active showed five years ago? In simple language, he shows you how - and much more. He also describes tools which better organize, visualize and analyze information.

The Internet offers many investigative tools to enhance your cases, many of which are free to use. Understanding the resources offered by the Internet can help you find hidden assets, locate targets, and improve your investigations.

By watching this session you will:

• Understand the difference between the "surface web" and the "deep web," and recognize what this means for your searches and investigations.
• Learn how to view historical web pages from last month or last year, to see information that may have been removed and to help you understand how things have changed for your targets.
• Improve your skills to find public records in foreign countries, and get hints to find aliases and hidden assets.

About the instructor: John Pyrik

With analytical and investigative expertise accumulated from 19 years of experience in the Canadian government, his diverse background includes service as an intelligence officer, securities investigator, and money laundering analyst. An Internet expert, he lectures frequently on exploiting the Internet for information and intelligence.

He is currently the chief instructor and coordinator of Canada's intelligence analyst^* training program and a consultant to the United Nations Office of Drug Control. He has served as an advisor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Financial Transactions Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) and other agencies on the collection, exploitation and investigative uses of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on which he teaches courses. He is a visiting fellow at the Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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Using FinCEN and IRS Forms to Find Assets and Links

YOUR PRESENTERS:

Michael McDonald
Executive Director, IAAR

Charles A.Intriago
President, AssetRecoveryWatch.com and International Association for Asset Recovery^*

As an asset recovery^* specialist, you know that one of the keys to success is to first build a good case. But finding the quality information you need to make that case can be challenging. So where do you turn?

Look no further than the government forms that are a part of evey financial case. The number of forms that U.S., state and local governments require every day is almost limitless. And those forms are packed with information--often, exactly what you need to build an asset forfeiture^* or asset tracing and recovery case.

But with so many forms and so much information to choose from, where do you start? Exactly which forms are available? What procedures must you follow to access the forms you want? What information does each form provide? And how can you use the information once you have it?

Government forms--including tax returns, employment forms, Bank Secrecy Act documents, customs documentation, and DMV records--are a great resource for creating a history, timeline, geography and financial status of your subject. But these forms aren't always easy to find, and are even more challenging to access, especially if you're a private citizen.

Listen as our two experts offer proven techniques that will make it easy for you to access government forms, decide which forms you need to go after and how best to interpret the information once you have it. You'll also learn exactly what information is on these forms and how to use it to further your investigation.

Workers in both the public and private sectors often have trouble accessing the various government forms available. By the end of this webinar, you'll come away with some creative new ways to gain access to these forms, plus private-sector workarounds that can help you get the information you need to make your case.

Whether you're an intelligence analyst^*, private investigator, forensic accountant^*, lawyer, banking intelligence or financial investigator--anyone in the public or private sector who wants to better understand how to secure and analyze the information contained in government forms--this is one webinar you can't afford to miss.

Listen on your own or assemble key team members so you can all listen together--all for one low flat fee. Gain insight into what forms are available and how to use the information in them to help you achieve your investigative objectives--whether it's asset forfeiture^* or the recovery of assets for the private sector.

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Sources of Information: Follow the Money Trail

Nearly all crime has money as its primary motive. In this on-demand training, we will identify and explain many of the resources you have available to identify the assets and wealth of the criminals and trace their illicit proceeds. The keys to building significant and successful asset forfeiture^* cases include gaining access to information, generating financial leads, knowing how to extract crucial information from financial documents and unmask hidden ownership interests.

By understanding the distinct sources of information, including law enforcement agencies can take a giant leap toward perfecting their asset forfeiture^* skills and abilities while dismantling criminal organizations.

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Expert Martin S. Kenney discusses ethical dilemmas in asset recovery cases

Maintaining an ethical asset recovery team^* is crucial to success. Martin S. Kenney, an attorney^* from the British Virgin Islands who has recovered millions in assets during his career, discusses ethical considerations in asset recovery^* during the 2nd Annual IAAR Conference in Las Vegas, USA. 

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Retired IRS-CI Special Agent Mike McDonald on asset recovery and the mortgage fraud epidemic

IAAR Advisory Board member and former IRS-CI Special Agent Michael McDonald discusses mortgage fraud and the opportunities it offers in asset recovery^*.

Register today and get the early bird price for the Third Annual IAAR Conference at the Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas, USA, November 16-18, 2011.

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The Great Equalizers – Using the Powerful, Far-Reaching ‘Equity Powers’ of a Court to Help You Trace and Recover Hidden Assets

Civil search warrants, break-and-search orders, reformation and rescission^* of contracts, writs of assistance, writs of ne exeat, gag-and-seal orders. Have you heard about them? All of these very potent weapons and more are yours for the asking if you have "clean hands." For centuries, courts have followed the axiom, "Where there’s a wrong there’s a remedy, if you come with clean hands.” This principle gives courts the power to do "equity" when no statute or regulation provides the relief that financial crime victims seek. Government agents have badges, guns and grand juries, but private sector representatives of fraud victims have similar powers in the equitable relief a court gives. It can compel disclosure, rewrite contracts, declare a wrongful detention of assets, transfer property, require document examinations, freeze assets, and other things. In this vital web seminar, you will learn how to get, construct and use these powerful weapons that put you on a winning road in asset recovery^*.

Speakers: Christopher Osborne; Run time: 00:51:45; Date: April 6, 2011

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Kip Holmes draws a path to asset recovery success by working closely with prosecutors

Asset recovery^* is a practice fraught with barriers: Public and private sector professionals, investigators and lawyers, international and domestic - these perceived competing interests are, more often than not, working towards the same ends with similar tools.

In the spirit of tearing down these barriers and lending synergy to the asset recovery^* process, retired Arizona state assistant attorney^* general Cameron "Kip" Holmes draws a clear path to asset recovery^* success by making the prosecutor your best friend.

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Tracing and Recovering the Stolen National Treasures Taken by Deposed Despots and Dictators in the Middle East and North Africa

In this web seminar, Kenneth Barden, practicing attorney^* and international independent consultant, will give you a taste of what you will learn on the panel Tracing and Recovering the Stolen National Treasures Taken by Deposed Despots and Dictators in the Middle East and North Africa which will be featured at the IAAR 2011 Cross-Border Asset Tracing and Recovery Conference June 12-14, 2011 in London.

Speaker: Kenneth Barden, CSAR; Run time: 1:01:22; Date: May 4, 2011

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Behaving Ethically and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest in your Asset Recovery Case

Spotting ethical risks and potential dilemmas are the biggest risks to undermining your asset recovery^* case. Taking on a new client can create conflicts of interest, even unintended ones. In this Web Seminar, Utah lawyer Wayne Klein, a court-appointed receiver^* and former director of the Utah Division of Securities, draws a map for ethical best practices based on his considerable experience.

Speaker: Wayne Klein; Run time: 00:50:00; Date: Feb. 2, 2010

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Dissecting Bank, Business and Credit Card Records That Lead You to Hidden Assets and Fronts for Bad Guys

These days, when the electronic movement of funds leaves tracks in many places, money can run but it cannot hide. Even currency at some point must find its way to a financial institution to lose its conspicuous state and convert to another form of value. Financial institutions and commercial businesses keep many types of records that can provide a roadmap to substantial assets, their owners, the real beneficial owners, and to other suspects who had escaped attention. Knowing what records to subpoena from a bank, securities dealer, insurance company, mutual fund, money transmitter or business is a crucial skill. An equally important skill is determining what the records reveal. Any law enforcement agency seeking greater success in asset forfeiture^* must assure that its investigators and analysts acquire those skills. Here, experts give you invaluable lessons on the records you need and how to get them.

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Essential Tools That Top Professionals Deploy to Succeed in Global Asset Recovery Cases

Tracing and recovering assets is a learned skill. Financial criminals get the best advice money can buy for guidance on hiding and disguising assets to keep them from getting recovered by their rightful owners. Skilled forensic accountants, lawyers, investigators and analysts know how to penetrate those artifices, locate hidden assets and uncover true ownership. Skilled asset recovery^* professionals know the best practices that legal, investigative and forensics practitioners must follow to improve their chance of success. What do original entry documents really show and how should business books and records be mined for the gold they contain? How does a specialist find out the potential investigative yield of a case? Is a particular asset worth pursuing? What are the best methods to trace assets from the point of acquisition to the present hiding place? Here, four experts guide you with invaluable tips they have learned through decades of successful experience.

Speakers: Christopher Osborne, Chris Phillips, Kenneth Krys and Lisa Burton
Moderator: David Quinones

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Using FinCen Reporting, Bank and Business Records and Tax Filings to Effectively Investigate, Trace and Recover Assets

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Direct and Indirect Methods of Creating a Financial Profile for Your Asset Recovery Target

In finding out the “who” of your asset recoveryⁱ case can often be the most important aspect. Your target’s identity will inform almost everything else about him – where he travels, which countries he calls home, who his family members are, what he spends his money on. Is this subject even your ultimate target, or is there a bigger fish to fry? All of this information should be in a comprehensive financial profile, and it should be the bedrock of your case.

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