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Midweek Roundup: US Officials Flag Timeshare Fraud, Menendez Found Guilty, and More

U.S. officials and federal investigators warned banks and other institutions to begin screening outbound transactions to Mexico for signs of cartel-perpetrated fraud schemes against U.S. owners of timeshare properties in the country, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control simultaneously blacklisted three Mexican accountants and four Mexican companies allegedly moving funds from the timeshare fraud schemes on behalf of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. More Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been convicted by a federal jury in New York of 16 counts of bribery and corruption, prompting...

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