- Hardcover: 492 pages
- Publisher: CRC Press Inc (16 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0849307104
- ISBN-13: 978-0849307102
- Product Dimensions: 29.1 x 21.7 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,859,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is an excellent book and a recommend read for the novice, the expert and the voyeurI'll tell you this, if James R. Richards, authors a second volume on financial crimes, I would like to be the first to purchase it.
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Historic perspective meets current investigative techniques The crime of money laundering is widespread, not only figuring in obvious cases such as Al Capone's, but in major events as diverse as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Watergate scandal. Money Laundering gives law enforcement professionals a clear understanding of money laundering practices, legislation, and investigation. Two frontline investigators - a narcotics investigator/supervisor, and a special agent for the IRS - have co-authored this authoritative study. Case studies establish a historic perspective on Money Laundering, and the progressive changes in its methods through the years. For today's investigator, the authors also take a broad approach to forfeiture, financial crimes, fraud, and related situations - making the information most valuable and timely.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a former trial lawyer now working as a Financial Editor for a major European Investment Bank, I found Money Laundering: Guide for Criminal Investigators to be an excellent handbook for understanding the ins and outs of money laundering. The authors do not leave anything to chance, giving clear and precise explanations of even the most simple terms. The history of money laundering is also considered in the first chapters. I had some previous experience studying the subject matter and found that both for myself, as well as for the complete novice, the book is a great primer. One of the surprises the book contains are the explanations on how banking, real estate and securities industries work as well as simple explanations of accounting methods and balance sheets. These are most useful for those who have not had a formal education in the aforementioned area. In my view, the authors' attitude is to provide not only a primer but a reference book for future use. In this sense it is "The Bible of Money Laundering Investigation Handbooks", giving the basic outlines that an investigator should use, checklists provided help the investigator to keep on track and not get lost when facing the challenges of fighting white collar crime. Sample templates are provided for requesting information as well as a handy glossary. Some readers could consider this book as "Money Laundering for Dummies", but the aim is to acquire the proper base for future study. As an attorney trained outside the Common Law system, I was able to draw parallelisms between the Continental legal system I studied and the U.S. one. The chapter detailing the different legal forms a business can have, gave me a clear snapshot of what I knew and did not know. Here lies the strength of the book: it is not only of interest to law enforcement & to the judicial branch but also for those of us who work within an industry where compliance is a major issue and where we deal with one or more Regulators. Although the book gives us a law enforcement perspective, it allows for better compliance at all levels. Recently, a financial investigation on the part of the local Regulator into a "fly by night" market operator revealed it was suspected of being a conduit for money laundering. Being an alumnus of the book, allowed me to get a very clear picture of what the press was referring to when they mentioned layering and placement, brass plate banks and other terms pertaining to these illegal practices. It also proved once again that most journalists do have the slightest idea of what there are talking about when writing on this fascinating ever- increasingly-important subject.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
An excellent nuts and bolts introduction.
17 Oct 1999
Format:Hardcover
As a Canadian police officer, I picked up this book expecting to find its understandable American focus to be of limited use to me. Instead I was very surprised. Yes it is entirely American in focus and reference, but its explanation of laundering methodologies - and weaknesses - was exceptionally straight forward and of universal application. I was able to apply several aspects immediately to an existing international investigation of commercial fraud.
It is in its explanations that the book is strongest. These are simply written, without jargon. For example, using the analogy of Al Capone's enterprises, it gives the best and simplest description of a balance sheet and financial statement and what goes into their makeup that I have ever seen. When this began I was suspicious that the Capone analogy was going to have to be stretched beyond any usefulness, but this turned out not to be the case at all. In fact, the analogy gave the explanations life and character.
Its outline of resources, to consider was equally direct and useful, even to a Canadian investigation.
25 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Money Laundering for the Stupid.
7 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
Do not waste your time or money on this book. The book assumes that all readers have the financial literacy of a high school student. Of course, the book was purportly written for police investigations so maybe the authors dummed it down so their fellow law enforcement friends would be able to understand it. For example, the book goes into painly silly details about what a balance sheet and income statement are all about and how to read them properly. (ie the section on debit-credit was particularly useless) My personal favorite was the filler section on how to buy real-estate or securities. The book only really gets to the interesting(and the most imporant aspect of a book on money laundering) "how to" structures of money laundering operations in a couple of chapters. One chapter is basically dedicated to simple structures like using smurfs so that is essentially useless. BOTTOM LINE: if you are at all familar with money laundering, financial statements, bank secrecy act, tax rules, yadda yadda, then this book is a waste of your time. If you know nothing about the above, then you may find the book useful.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Resource
30 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
The text provides excellent introduction into the crime of money laundering...very easy to understand and at times comical. Although the book is a bit dated, its concepts remain the same and I would recommend this text for anyone interested in understanding the role of money laundering.
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