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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

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