U.S. federal agencies charged with fighting financial crime will retain staff aiding law enforcement investigators and ongoing litigation under plans contingent on an expected government shutdown. The Senate Monday afternoon rejected a House measure that would fund the government at the cost of delaying healthcare reforms, part of a Republican plan to kill the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The political impasse is expected to result in the furlough of between 800,000 to 1 million federal employees beginning at midnight. In contingency plans published online, financial regulators and federal investigators outlined how they would continue work on law...
A possible government shutdown slated for Saturday would force the U.S. agency in charge of collecting and maintaining Bank Secrecy Act data to operate with reduced staff, a government official said Thursday.
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