US & Canada financial crime news

Seattle — Cameron John Wagenius, 22, a former Army soldier who was most recently stationed in Texas, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for conspiri…

Baltimore, Maryland – Two Baltimore men are facing indictment, today, stemming from a federal drug-trafficking takedown operation. Charles “Bok” Byers, 48, and Darryl “DJ” Hairston, Jr., 48, who oper…

The InSight Take: US Drug Certification: Law Enforcement or Politics? Why did the United States remove Venezuela from its drug blacklist while Colombia and Bolivia remain on it? In this InSight Take,…

U.S. prosecutors allege that Oxygen Forensics concealed its Russian ownership and Russia-based software development while selling digital forensic tools to American government agencies, including the…

Defense lawyers argued in a Virginia courtroom that Sebastián Marset "studiously avoided" the United States, asking a federal judge to dismiss narco-terrorism and money laundering charges on the grou…

U.S. regulators have made it clear that banks have the discretion to explain account closures, short of disclosing the existence of a suspicious activity report filing. They should make it mandatory.

Documents obtained by ProPublica suggest the senator flexed her power to secure government contracts for donors

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A forthcoming rule from Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will spell out banks' obligations to identify the true identities and beneficial ownership of its clients, even as the administ…

The Chinese tech giant is on trial in New York for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and stealing trade secrets as it built its global telecommunications empire.