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The black-market trade in wildlife has moved online, and the deluge is 'dizzying' Rene Ebersole © Photograph by Felix Wong, South China Morning Post, Getty Images Illegal ivory from elephants, rhinos, and other animals is in demand for the production of carved sculptures, trinkets, and jewelry such as these pieces, destroyed in Hong Kong in May 2014 as a public display of defiance against wildlife trafficking. Scientists studying the online ivory trade have found that sellers often use code words to avoid detection by law enforcement. When a squad of federal and state law en...

By Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-11T22:01:00+00:00 Tucked into the $740 billion defense spending bill Congress approved Friday are several anti-money laundering (AML) provisions that could dramatically improve law enforcement’s ability to identify and prosecute criminals laundering money through the U.S. banking system. The “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021” (H.R.6395) contains a provision (Section 6403) that will require corporations to identify who owns and controls them (i.e., beneficial ownership) to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) at the U.S. Treas...

On September 23, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published its final rule [1] on several questions regarding the agency’s whistleblower program. Among the rulings were a rejection of a change that would have limited payouts on very large fraud cases, the removal of all internal whistleblower protections offered by the SEC, and a restriction of “related action” cases in which whistleblowers could receive rewards from more than one agency. The final rule has been expected for at least two years, during which the SEC debated and heard comments on all of the propo...

governments around the world that ended up not being true. >> kurt eichenwald on his boat "500 days." and a whistleblower once jailed after revealing how ubs had helped americans evade taxes. >> today is a great day for whistleblowers, a great day for all the honest americans out there who work their job, pay their taxes, and today is a great day for tax fairness. today is a terrible day for big- time tax cheats. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s. ambassador to libya and three embassy staf...

was the number of elements of the story that were advanced by governments around the world that ended up not being true. >> kurt eichenwald on his boat "500 days." and a whistleblower once jailed after revealing how ubs had helped americans evade taxes. >> today is a great day for whistleblowers, a great day for all the honest americans out there who work their job, pay their taxes, and today is a great day for tax fairness. today is a terrible day for big- time tax cheats. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm am...