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The organizational structure of many Native American casinos tend to inhibit customer due diligence, suspicious activity reporting and other anti-money laundering processes, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. Regulation of tribal casinos varies from state to state. The firms, which generated $32 billion in revenue in 2017, must comply with AML rules and submit to supervision by the IRS and National Indian Gaming Commission, or NIGC, an agency tasked with protecting 500 casinos belonging to 238 tribes from fraud, organized crime and corruption. Unlike their colleagues at casinos on federal land where surveillance and AML typically work under the same management, surveillance...