From Booklist What exactly is money laundering? Mathers, a former undercover operative with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and an expert on the topic, explains that the term dates back to the 1930s. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. The deter
From Booklist What exactly is money laundering? Mathers, a former undercover operative with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and an expert on the topic, explains that the term dates back to the 1930s. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. The detergent has changed over the years--today's crooks often use real estate to wash their money-- but the process remains the same. All rights reserved. The book lays out exactly how criminals turn bad money into good; it also describes, among other things, the pervasiveness of organized crime, how to obtain false identification, and the mechanics of blackmail. Mathers has an easygoing, often humorous prose style: after noting that most criminals look like everybody else, he adds, "When people try to pick out the bad guys, they're usually looking f In Crime School: Money Laundering, a twenty year law enforcement veteran of financial crime explains this felony in simple terms. The chilling details of cleaning blood money. What is money laundering? How does it work? And why is it such a threat to any democratic society? International terrorism has focused federal and state law-enforcement's attention on the shadowy world of money laundering. It's a rare and fascinating look at a deadly world few have ever witnessed and lived to tell the story.. Organized criminals operating both domestically and internationally corrupt bankers and subvert national economies through the use of drug money. Written anecdotally, the book describes what money laundering is and how the crimes behind it fit together. While the media has examined money laundering, the topic is still little understood by the public. This book examines the history of money laundering from ancient times to the cocaine craze of the 1970s to the sophisticated, brutal techniques employed by today's terrorists and organized crime. Lively and detailed, this book chronicles the stark realities and deadly dynamics of the lynchpin between organized crime and modern terrorismLike Parker's other recent books (The Company, the Devices and Desires trilogy), The Folding Knife is well written, sports a compelling main character, and a brisk, entertaining plotat least until the last 30 pages. At first, I thought Paul was a refreshing heronot tall, dark, and handsome, but short-ish, average, and kind; but, he was too kind and let Josephine run all over him. Rizzo sheds light on a range of fascinating CIA moments (and outrageous miscues), from Iran Contra, to Aldrich Ames, to Valerie Plame and dozens of others. I got this book for school and was surprised at how well it reads.. It only has the solutions to the odd numbered exercises. Poole conducted extensive oral history research with many key players in Florida's environmental movement. I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled this out of the box! It is so much nicer than I had expected it to be. Of those 100 e-mails 8 were classified Top Secret, 8 were classified Confidential, and the rest - some 94 of them - were cla
- Title : Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets the World of Business and Finance
- Author : Chris Mathers
- Rating : 4.89 (575 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-1-12
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 240 Pages
- Asin : 1552979938
- Language : English
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