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Title firms have reported more than 18,000 transactions to U.S. officials in the four years since the first geographic targeting order on the real estate industry took effect, and more than 1,000 of those payments involved parties who had already been reported as high risk for illicit finance. Those and other outcomes of the GTO program administered by the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network appeared Thursday in a 47-page report on the federal government's strategy against financial crime, and how corporate anonymity fuels money laundering and other illicit activity in the U.S. FinCEN's first GTO on real estate, issued in...