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Money Laundering Research Related to Attorneys

Attorney Cathy's Continuing Quandary, Or, Can the Gatekeeper Initiative Be Reconciled with the Multi -Jurisdictional Practice of Law?

The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, increased a growing concern among law enforcement authorities worldwide about money laundering in general and terrorist financing in particular. Those authorities, and their political and legislative allies, have long attempted to reduce access by criminal elements to legitimate money, but since regulations intended to prevent illegal behavior in transactions involving more than one actor are not particularly efficacious when aimed only at the potential initiator, one of the recent regulatory initiatives has been aimed at the middle men in incipient money laundering deals. This initiative is the Gatekeeper Initiative.

John W. Brooks
ofLuce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

Roberta Vassallo
Spring 2007
The International Lawyer