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After just eight months on the job, Robert Werner resigned Tuesday from the top job at the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to take a position as the managing director and head of Merrill Lynch's Monetary and Financial Control Group and Bank Compliance Group. Treasury insiders said the financial institution pursued Werner for some time and made him more than one offer. Eventually, the company approached him with a deal the father of three couldn't refuse. Werner will remain at FinCEN until the end of the year with limitations on his participation in actions that could affect...