Sensational headlines grabbed a lot of eyeballs... but has there really been a crisis in the fight against money laundering? Or are the FinCEN Files a story of our past, where standards and capabilities were not as elevated as they are today?

And can we even tell - or are we just making some reasonable assumptions based on what we know has changed since the first SAR from 1999 that make up the FinCEN Files?

It’s an interesting thing to think about - heck, I even realized something at the last second and inserted it in the middle of the episode wrap-up!