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Agent Monitoring, Training Key for MSBs, Insurers, Says IRS Official

As a youth, David Tilzer never imagined he'd have a career in law enforcement, dreaming instead of working alongside his hero, deep sea diver Jacques Cousteau. So when he accepted an assignment investigating income tax fraud for the Internal Revenue Service, he expected to leave when the six-month stint ended. Three decades later, Tilzer remains with the IRS, as senior Bank Secrecy Act and AML manager for the agency's Examination Division in New York. After the stint examining bogus tax filings, Tilzer graduated quickly to complex money laundering investigations often involving salacious offenses such as murder and movie piracy. As...

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