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An anti-money laundering compliance officer allegedly tricked his former employer, a now-liquidated credit union in New York, into processing more than $1 billion in suspicious payments for two money services businesses that he and an associate ran on the side. U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday that despite pledging to abide by the Bank Secrecy Act when handling any new, high-risk foreign business that he and his partner brought to the New York State Employees Federal Credit Union or NYSEFCU, the compliance officer, Gyanendra Asre, did not review any of the transactions or flag them as suspicious during the two-year scheme. "The...