AML Conversations

A special edition of AML Conversations, looking at a program at Marquette University that focuses on partnerships, emphasizing how “peacemaking” can improve communities and everyday lives. Numerous peacemaking initiatives are discussed in this conversation between AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, and Patrick Kennelly, the Director of the Center for Peacemaking program at Marquette University.

The importance of asset forfeiture both globally and domestically is analyzed by international expert Stef Cassella in this riveting edition of AML Conversations. This edition features AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, and Stef Cassella who is currently the author and publisher of Money Laundering and Forfeiture Digest, but more importantly has been instrumental in the use, at the federal level, of the asset forfeiture laws used by prosecutors and law enforcement throughout the 80s until today. You cannot understand AML without knowledge of asset forfeiture.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sits down with Elise Bean. Elise Bean is the former staff director and chief counsel of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) and the author of a new book, Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse. You’ll hear an in-depth interview on the major financial crime investigations of the past 20 years that are covered in her new book.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, talks with Steven Kemmerling. Steven is the CEO and Founder of MRB Monitor, a company that doesn’t support or oppose the banking of marijuana customers, but provides information so that institutions can make more informed decisions on whether or not their account holders are directly or indirectly managing products or businesses that have something to do with the sale of or with the enabling of the sale of marijuana. This conversation delves into the major challenges of banking marijuana businesses with the federal and state conflicts that still exist.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with Mark Matthews who has had a long and distinguished career in both the private and public sectors. He is currently a member of Caplin & Drysdale Tax Controversies, Tax Litigation, and Exempt Organizations practice groups and has previous experience with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department, as well as experience serving in senior AML roles. This conversation covers offshore banking, beneficial ownership, tax evasion, and the role played by IRS post 9/11 and up to today.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with legendary compliance expert, Chuck Lewis. Chuck is retiring after 42 years of work in the banking industry, 40 of those years specifically in compliance. Throughout his career he has worked directly for financial institutions, advisory firms, and finally for the Missouri Bankers Association advising and working with banks on various compliance matters including Bank Secrecy Act issues. Chuck Lewis is well known for his training, compliance reviews, and great sense of humor.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with the founder of the Antiquities Coalition. The Antiquities Coalition is a nonprofit organization created roughly four years ago to stop the use of stolen antiquities as terrorist financing tools for extremist organizations, a very compelling part of anti-terrorist financing. The Antiquities Coalition conducts excellent advocacy and awareness work dealing with the need for countries around the world to create relevant laws and regulations to address stolen antiquities and their use as a tool to commit horrific crimes.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with John Roth. John Roth has spent his career addressing the major challenges facing the AML community in the public sector and now is leading an effort for an important component in a new part of the private sector. John Roth’s distinguished career includes being the lead of the 9/11 Commission Report on terrorist financing, serving as Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security, and serving as the Department of Justice’s liaison to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Today he works for a digital currency exchange, Bittrex, as the Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer. The discussion focuses on John Roth’s career and ends with where Bittrex fits in with financial technology and his views on artificial intelligence.

This edition of AML Conversations by AML RightSource features John Byrne, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, and Jonathan Lopez, Partner in the white collar corporate investigations group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington DC. The discussion revolves around Jonathan’s previous career with the Department of Justice where he covered the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), personal liability cases, and money laundering issues. The conversation also covers his transition to the private sector and the perspective he now has from being a prosecutor to currently defending and advising white collar clients.

In this episode of AML Conversations by AML RightSource, John Byrne, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, sat down with Dan Soto during the 2018 ACAMS AML & Financial Crime conference in Hollywood, Florida. Dan Soto serves as Chief Compliance Officer at Ally Financial and is a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board. The conversation goes through Dan’s career starting in the public sector to where he is today, including comments about compliance in 2018 and some of the things he has learned throughout his career.