Most Recent

Beyond the Duvalier Legacy: What New ‘Arab Spring’ Governments Can Learn from Haiti and the Benefits of Stolen Asset Recovery

Mark V. Vlasic and Gregory Cooper - 02/19/2012
In this well-documented and incisive piece, Vlasic and Cooper make a strong case for the vital importance of improving international stolen asset...read more

Indians Have Stashed Over $500 Bn Abroad

Press Trust of India (PTI) - 02/13/2012
An estimated $500 billion (nearly Rs 24.5 lakh crore) of illegal money of Indians is deposited in tax havens abroad, CBI Director A P Singh disclosed...read more

Con Ed bribe payments, forfeitures, restitution and fines round out 2011 for IRS-CI

Joseph Foy - 01/02/2012
IRS Criminal Investigation casework mainly focused on significant legal source tax investigations, with increasing numbers of high-quality, high-...read more

Asset recovery luminaries gather for groundbreaking panels on third party targets

David Quinones - 11/23/2011
For years, IAAR experts have preached the value of third party or “one-off” asset recovery* targets, but the lessons have never been as clearly and...read more

Department of Justice on brink of releasing FCPA guidance

David Quinones - 11/10/2011
While it was just a brief comment during a lengthy speech, United States Assistant Attorney* General Lanny Breuer’s mention of impending guidance on...read more

IRS Special Agents investigate pharmaceutical diversion fraud

Joseph Foy - 11/10/2011
IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent Joseph Foy provides a roundup of the biggest recovery and forfeiture cases from the month that was.IRS...read more

US' largest privately held mortgage lender sued by US and a CSAR

David Quinones - 11/03/2011
After 55 percent of the loans it wrote went to foreclosure, Allied Mortgage Capital is in the government’s crosshairs thanks in part to a...read more

US' largest privately held mortgage lender sued by US and a CSAR

David Quinones - 11/03/2011
After 55 percent of the loans it wrote went to foreclosure, Allied Mortgage Capital is in the government’s crosshairs thanks in part to a...read more

Looking for clues when there are none: Part I – Obstacles faced by the investigator or asset recovery specialist and how to overcome or work around them

Don C. Semesky, Jr. - 10/27/2011
Lost in all the headlines and stories about the Federal government’s deferred prosecution agreement with Wachovia Bank was the fact that, with the...read more

How to pierce offshore secrecy havens to identify and recover targeted assets

Kenneth E. Barden, JD, CSAR - 10/27/2011
Criminals have long favored putting their illegally obtained assets into what are known as “offshore secrecy havens.”  Such havens are usually...read more

Madoff trustee turns to data rooms to get to the assets

IAAR Staff - 10/19/2011
Nearly three years after Madoff arrest, trustee in fraudster's historic liquidation case employs electronic discovery to recover assets from 'crime...read more

7 reasons the NY Mets owners would be willfully blind to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme

David Quinones - 10/13/2011
The owners of the New York Mets, savvy investors with shady dealings and facilitators of fraud everywhere rejoiced when District Court Judge Jed S....read more

Narcotics, mail and retail fraud give IRS-CI forfeiture units steady work

Joseph Foy - 09/30/2011
The focus of IRS Criminal Investigation casework is on significant legal source tax investigations, including working to increase the number of high-...read more

Millions in complex assets mishandled or lost while under US Marshals Service care

David Quinones - 09/20/2011
A new audit report from the Department of Justice* Inspector General largely supports allegations made by a contract forfeiture support whistle-...read more

Asset recovery: They don’t teach this stuff in college. Or do they?

David Quinones - 09/06/2011
International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism, a groundbreaking class taught at George Washington University’s Law School, could also be...read more

Top Kenyan asset recovery, anti-corruption officials ousted

David Quinones - 08/31/2011
One month after his office announced the recovery of $8.6 million in procurement fraud proceeds, a new law, hurriedly enacted, has made it certain...read more

Bernard Madoff trustee's woes could cascade to asset recovery community at-large

David Quinones - 08/19/2011
In dismissing some of the largest claims against banks accused of willful blindness*, US District Judge Jed Rakoff has in recent weeks dashed the...read more

Payroll tax cheats and others snared by IRS-CI

Joseph Foy - 08/11/2011
The asset forfeiture* program is one of the government's most effective tools against drug trafficking, money laundering, organized crime, corporate...read more

Stanford Liquidators Win Bid to Get $20 Million in UK Assets

IAAR Staff - 08/08/2011
Stanford International Bank’s liquidators won a bid to gain access to $20 million of assets frozen in the U.K. Grant Thornton LLP, which is...read more

SEC needs more clout, not less

IAAR Staff - 08/05/2011
At least one lawmaker seems to want the Securities and Exchange Commission to become irrelevant. The regulator has had its problems. But a Republican...read more
Beyond the Duvalier Legacy: What New ‘Arab Spring’ Governments Can Learn from Haiti and the Benefits of Stolen Asset Recovery
Mark V. Vlasic and Gregory Cooper - Sunday, February 19, 2012
In this well-documented and incisive piece, Vlasic and Cooper make a strong case for the vital importance of improving international stolen asset...
read more
Asset recovery luminaries gather for groundbreaking panels on third party targets
David Quinones - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
For years, IAAR experts have preached the value of third party or “one-off” asset recovery* targets, but the lessons have never been as clearly and...
read more
Department of Justice on brink of releasing FCPA guidance
David Quinones - Thursday, November 10, 2011
While it was just a brief comment during a lengthy speech, United States Assistant Attorney* General Lanny Breuer’s mention of impending guidance on...
read more
Read all news

The ARW Podcast

Digital sleuth shares top strategies for the computer age
Steve Rambam | 02/22/2012
President and CEO, Pallorium Inc.

This was recorded on September 26, 2011.  Expert digital investigator Steve Rambam of...
Listen now

Cross-border expert draws path to success in multiple jurisdictions
Arnoldo Lacayo | 08/16/2011
Astigarraga Davis

IAAR editor David Quinones talked with Astigarraga Davis' Arnoldo Lacayo about the Miami...
Listen now

Premier divorce lawyer: Asset recovery a key, under-used aspect of matrimonial law
Randall M. Kessler | 08/03/2011
Founding Partner, Kessler & Solomiany

Randall...
Listen now

Stay Connected