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Western Union’s Court-Appointed AML Monitor Dismissed
By Colby Adams
printUPDATE: Adds a statement from a Western Union spokesperson. The independent court monitor tasked with ensuring Western Union's compliance with the terms of its March 2010 settlement with Arizona prosecutors has been dismissed from the position, say sources. Ted Greenberg, a former federal prosecutor and independent consultant in Washington, D.C., was officially removed from the supervisory post in an Aug. 29 hearing before Maricopa County Superior Court, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Greenberg, who once served as chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, was appointed...
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