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Miami New Times - October 6, 2005 - Awash in a Sea of Money
... "Miami has a well-deserved reputation for money laundering," says Charles Intriago, a former federal prosecutor who has built a lucrative business on that ...

Daily Business Review - June 10, 2005 - Bankers plan compliance training

New York Times - April 10, 2005 - U.S. seeks access to bank records to deter terror

Miami Herald - Jan 17, 2004 - Task force to target foreign corruption

New York Times - Aug 22, 2003 - U.S. wants foreign leaders' laundered assets

New York Times - May 30, 2003 - U.S. cautiously begins to seize millions in foreign banks

Complinet - April 7, 2003 - Imports and exports: a black hole in US law enforcement

Complinet - April 3, 2003 - Google - the ultimate KYC tool?

American Banker - March 31, 2003 - Worries About Patriot Act ID Rule Lingering

Miami Herald - March 28, 2003 - Laundering seeps into everyday life

Sun Sentinel - March 28, 2003 - Fortifying anti-terror Patriot Act urged

Miami Herald - March 26, 2003 - Money laundering Conference opens

Daily Business Review - Feb. 25, 2003 - Capital Sources, Dirty-money hunt heads for travel agents - Full Article

St. Petersburg Times - Feb. 22, 2003 - Case raises questions on money flow - Full Article

Miami Herald - Jan. 17, 2003 - Bank fails to report shaky activity - Full Article

Miami Herald - Jan. 9, 2003 - Women jailed for money laundering - Full Article

Real Deals - Oct. 17, 2002 - Passing the Bucks? - Full Article

Miami Herald - Sep. 30, 2002 - A new economic era for the Bahamas - Full Article

Miami Herald - Sep. 12, 2002 - Great Eastern fined $100,000, Bank cited for failing to file reports - Full Article

New York Times - Apr. 24, 2002 - More Regulations to Thwart Money Laundering Are Imposed - Full article

Miami Herald - Mar 11, 2002 - Seized Miami bank gave millions in suspect loans - Full article

Sun-Sentinel - Feb 23, 2002 - Patriot Act goes beyond terrorist finances - Full article

Miami Herald - Feb 23, 2002 - Financiers of terrorism face blacklisting - Full article

Reuters - Feb 23, 2002 - Hard Fight Seen to Break Terrorist Funding Networks  - Full article

AP Business - Feb 22, 2002- Money-laundering expert: No quick way to cut off al-Qaida funds -  Full article-

Miami Herald - Feb 22, 2002 - Terrorism raised stakes in laundering - Full article-

St. Petersburg Times -  Feb 21, 2002 - Where cash launderers can meet their hunters - Full article-

St. Petersburg Times - Nov 18 2001- Tracking of terrorist money puts government to the test - Former federal prosecutor Charlie Intriago, publisher of Money Laundering Alert, is skeptical of the federal government's ability to find, freeze and seize money that supports terrorist networks -  Full article-

Miami Herald - Nov 17 2001- Stricter rules could cost South Florida banks - Miami's vast and lucrative private banking industry and its relationships with foreign clients and offshore financial havens are about to undergo a substantial change -  Full article-

TIME - Oct 22 2001- Banking On Secrecy -  Terrorists oppose scrutiny of offshore accounts. And so do many U.S. bankers and lawmakers -  Full article-

Miami Herald - Aug 4 2001 -Money laundering battle intensifies. Senate proposal targets bank secrecy and loopholes  Full article-

Miami Herald  - June 26 2001 - Go-between was arrested in Miami, Peruvian special prosecutor says -  - Full article-

Sun-Sentinel - May 13, 2001 - Feds cracking down on money laundering.  Full article-

American Banker - May 8, 2001 - The New York Clearing House, a consortium of major money-center banks, is developing a plan to combat the use of correspondent accounts by money launderers, according to a draft set of guidelines made public last week.
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Miami Herald - April 12, 2001 - Take the showmanship of P.T. Barnum, the fervor of Rev. Billy Graham and the tenacity of Elliott Ness and you might come up with Charles A. Intriago, former public prosecutor, former Capitol Hill aide and now publisher of Money Laundering Alert.
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Miami Herald - April 2, 2001 - More software detects money laundering - Technology is aiding the work of money launderers, but it's also giving an assist to folks on the other side.
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Miami Daily Business Review - April 3, 2001 - Anti-money laundering effort eyes new target - Experts warn non-banking professionals may feel heat as regulators broaden scope.
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Sun-Sentinel - Mar. 30, 2001 - Bulldozers for $387 and 75-cent diamonds sound like bargains, but a pair of financial analysts say they are possible tip-offs to money laundering schemes.
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Miami Herald - Mar. 30, 2001 - Cash laundered through international trade is tough to track - Some 600 delegates from 42 countries are attending the Miami Beach conference.
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Miami Herald - Mar. 25, 2001 - Tax havens under attack - Each day, waves of money from the secretive offshore banking havens of the Caribbean flow invisibly around the globe.
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Daily Business Review - Mar. 13, 2001 - Money laundering is big business these days — for lawyers, accountants and other experts looking to cash in on increased concern about money laundering at financial institutions.
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New York Times - Feb. 27, 2001 - At the climax of one of the biggest undercover money-laundering investigations in United States history, federal agents seized $1.8 million in 1998 from Citibank accounts in New York that were held by a mysterious Cayman Islands bank that had no corporate offices anywhere in the world.
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Miami Herald - Feb. 27, 2001 - A Senate investigation scheduled to be released Thursday found that Citibank kept an account from a suspicious Caribbean bank open for more than a year even after a U.S. judge ordered its funds seized on drug money-laundering charges.
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Miami Herald Feb. 5, 2001- Major U.S. banks, many of them in Miami, have become conduits for massive international money-laundering operations through special accounts from phony foreign banks.
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New York Times - Jan. 14, 2001- The OECD, the Commonwealth and representatives of some of the 33 countries on an OECD blacklist are sitting down together in Bridgetown Monday and Tuesday to discuss OECD demands for a greater exchange of information and more transparency in the offshore centers' dealings.
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Miami Herald Jan. 10, 2001- Reversing its threat of unilateral action against "harmful" tax havens in offshore islands, a group of industrialized nations agreed to negotiate with small, developing countries over new rules and practices to curb tax evasion.
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