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unusual facts about money-laundering



Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists

In May 2009, ACAMS signed an agreement with Fudan University in Shanghai to jointly provide anti-money laundering training throughout mainland China.

Banu Nadir

They earned their living through agriculture, money lending, and trade in weapons and jewels, maintaining commercial relations with Arab merchants of Mecca.

Benjamin Silliman, Jr.

He also reported very optimistically on the mines at Lake Valley, New Mexico, which were also money-losers for shareholders.

Bob Klapisch

In response to his book on the 1992 Mets, The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets (ISBN 0-8032-7822-5), New York Mets outfielder Bobby Bonilla confronted Klapisch in the team's clubhouse, threatening him, and having to be restrained.

Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

CWGCS research has been supported through grants by the United States Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of State (DoS), the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and other government agencies, private foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Christmas club

The concept is that bank customers deposit a set amount of money each week into a special savings account, and receive the money back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping.

Cincinnati Park Board

The board receives its funding from the city, state and federal grants, as well as private endowments.

Consumer-generated advertising

Joel Moss Levinson won 11 consumer generated marketing contests, and earned more than $200,000 in money and prizes, by creating corporate jingles and short commercials.

Cormorant-class gunvessel

The first 6 ships were ordered from commercial yards (Money Wigram & Son, C J Mare & Co and J Scott Russell), with fitting out to be done in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham (first pair) and Woolwich (last 4).

Cronyism

Bertie Ahern, former Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach, was mentioned on several occasions to have taken sums of money and kickbacks from property developers during the Celtic Tiger.

Das Fürlines

They reformed in 1996 to perform a few benefit concerts to raise money for lead singer Wendy Wild's medical bills.

Dave Longaberger

His concern for his community was evident in the money, effort and time he donated in and around Dresden, Ohio.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

It is "likely that the notion of suicide bombing" was inspired by Hezbollah as al-Zawahiri had been to Iran to raise money, and had sent his underling Ali Mohamed, "among others, to Lebanon to train with Hezbollah".

Flowers in the Rain

During the single's chart success, most of the money went to the Spastics Society and Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Gerry Robinson

In June 2008, Robinson was one of four Labour donors who expressed their concerns with Gordon Brown's leadership and stated he would not be contributing any more money to the Labour Party until there was a change of leader.

Her Highness and Silk

In the story Her Highness and Silk join forces with long time Marvel Family foe Aunt Minerva, another old criminal lady, and attempt to use Uncle Dudley as a cover to steal money from the circus.

James Timberlake

In January 1882, outlaws Robert Ford, Charles Ford and Dick Liddil surrendered to Timberlake at the Fords' sister, Martha Bolton's residence in Ray County, Missouri, on the condition that they would receive full pardons and $10,000 in reward money, in exchange for the death or imprisonment of the gang's ringleader, Jesse James.

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

L. M. Shaw

Like his predecessor Secretary Lyman Gage, Shaw firmly believed that the Treasury should serve the money market in times of difficulty through the introduction of Treasury funds.

Lake Elmore

Recently, the lake has had a problem with milfoil, and there are several fundraisers every year to help the Milfoil Foundation, which then uses the money to pay for the milfoil's extraction.

Livent

By 1997, the company was losing money (a loss of $44.1 million that year alone), and in June, 1998, shareholders approved a deal which saw American actors' agent and ex-Disney executive Michael Ovitz take charge.

Lower Lake Fork Valley, Colorado

In 1881, the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) built a rail line into Gunnison and then continued to the west to Sapinero. Although a branch had been planned for Lake City, the lack of money delayed it.

Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence

Fed up with her dead-end job with a Minneapolis car rental agency, Martha quits, cashes her final paycheck, and uses the money to purchase an airline ticket to the least expensive international destination she can find - London.

Meadeau View Institute

William H. Doughty, the institute's founder and money manager, accepted over $1 million in donations and loans from backers in an attempt to build a conservative Utopia in Duck Creek and Mammoth Valley, Utah (near Hatch).

Meta Brevoort

In 1876, she had her final opportunity for a first ascent, but, instead, stayed in the Oberland in order to give more money to her nephew, to support his efforts in the range.

Money and the Power

"Money and the Power" is a song by American rapper Kid Ink, produced by N4, Ned Cameron and Jonathan Lauture.

Nelson Amendment

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson had said he would not support a bill that "doesn't make it clear that it does not fund abortion with government money".

Nezumi Kozō

This, combined with the public humiliation he dealt out to the daimyo, resulted in the popular legend that he gave the money to the poor, turning the petty crook into a posthumous folk hero similar to Robin Hood.

Pat Kiernan

From 2000 to 2004, Kiernan was the co-anchor of the CNNfn program "The Money Gang." His co-hosts included Christine Romans and two fellow Canadians, Amanda Lang and Ali Velshi.

Peter Tabuns

In 1996, he supported a boycott of Harvey's restaurants because its parent company Cara Operations had donated money to the Progressive Conservative Party for the past three years.

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Por la libre

Despite the movie title, they do not drive by the free highway but by the autopista, where they have to pay fees and end almost with no money by the time they arrive to Acapulco.

Prateep Ungsongtham Hata

She saved money from her meagre wages (about one baht per day) and at 15 she was able to pay for secondary education at an evening school.

Raghib Ismail

It would have been difficult to offer Ismail enough money to join the CFL, but Bruce McNall, who with hockey player Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy had recently purchased the Toronto Argonauts, tried.

Robert McAlmon

Having published his book of short stories A Hasty Bunch with James Joyce's printer Maurice Darantière in Dijon in 1922, he founded the Contact Publishing Company in 1923 using his father-in-law's money.

Roy Castleton

After arriving in the United States, his grandfather, James Castleton, worked as a gardener for Brigham Young, eventually saving enough money to establish his own business.

Salvatore Naturale

In a 2006 interview, the screenwriter of the movie, Frank Pierson, said that he tried to visit Wojtowicz in prison many times to get more details about his story when he wrote the screenplay, but Wojtowicz refused each time to see him because he thought he was not paid enough money for the rights to his story.

Sick Mother Fakers

The band demonstrated inspiration by Slobodan Šijan's movies Who's That Singing Over There and The Marathon Family in the songs "Dalje nećes moći...", "Daj pare" ("Give the Money"), "Đenka", "Opljačkani smo" ("We Have Been Robbed") and "Vozi, Miško" ("Drive, Miško"), featuring the Who's That Singing Over There theme.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals

Allergan has invested money in 2008 to help develop this medication further and bring it to the market.

SportsChannel

The network obtained the National Hockey League rights from ESPN in 1988 by offering the NHL almost triple the amount of money that ESPN was offering (a move not unlike the 2005 NHL rights grab by Comcast/OLN over ESPN).

Stuart Draper

He was well received for his role in the play Hot Mikado by the Bexley Times which wrote, "In a good cast, Stuart Draper shone brightest as the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, a blustering, avaricious coward in a pink suit who would have given Rik Mayall or Alexi Sayle a run for their money in the comedy stakes.".

Style Wars

On June 9, 2011 it was announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea along with actors Brad Pitt and James Franco and director Spike Jonze were donating items to an eBay auction that would raise money for restoring the film negatives for Style Wars.

Texas Oilman's Bass Invitational

The money raised supports patient care and research in pediatric kidney and urinary tract diseases and disorders.

The Gospel of Wealth

Even bequeathing one's fortune to charity was no guarantee that it would be used wisely, due to the fact that there was no guarantee that a charitable organization not under one's direction would use the money in accordance with one's wishes.

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

After admonishing his butler Jamison (Eric Blore) for conning money and adding a rare Cuban stamp to his coveted collection, former jewel looter and current detective Michael Lanyard (Warren William, also known as the Lone Wolf, flies back to Miami from Havana.

Une vie meilleure

But things turn upside down, high financing costs make things difficult, and Nadia, has to accept a temporary work opportunity in Montreal to pitch in with extra money.

Venal office

In the context of the French Revolution, a venal office refers to an office sold by the state to raise money.

Voter Education Project

To raise, administer, and distribute the money, the NAACP, CORE, SCLC, and SNCC formed the Voter Education Project (VEP) under the auspices of the non-profit Southern Regional Council (SRC).

William Colgate

He annually subscribed money to assist in defraying the current expenses of Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later Madison University and Theological Seminary); and he was among the most strenuous opponents of their removal to the city of Rochester.

William Spratling

Using money received from commissions he organized for Rivera, Spratling bought a home in Taxco, Mexico in 1928, where he began work on a book, Little Mexico, about this small mountain town.


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André Birotte Jr.

Birotte was the U.S. Attorney investigating charges against former cyclist Lance Armstrong for defrauding of the government, drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy.

Andrej Žernovski

This partly due to his insistence on freezing the project Skopje 2014, which he considers being the source of money laundering by the government, and an attack on the free will of the citizens of the Centar Municipality.

Asat Trust

A lawsuit filed by the family of John P. O'Neill describes Asat as a "money laundering organization" founded by Youssef Nada.

CCGS Parizeau

The Destiny Empress initially became a target for surveillance after a diligent UK police detective, executing a raid on a suspected drug house in connection with a narcotics and money laundering investigation in London, noticed a receipt for over £100,000 in ship repairs paid to Irving Shipbuilding, owner of Shelburne Ship Repair Ltd., a shipyard in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Eva Joly

9 May 2001 op-ed in Le Monde, signed with Renaud van Ruymbeke, Bernard Bertossa and other European magistrates or attorneys-general, titled "The black boxes of financial globalization", about the Clearstream scandal (Clearstream has been qualified as a "bank of banks" and accused of being a major platform of global money laundering and tax evasion)

Ivan Lawrence

He has defended in over 85 murder trials, and has appeared in a number of notable criminal trials,for example the Kray Brothers (gang-land murders), the serial killer Denis Nilsen, Russell Bishop (Brighton Babes in the Wood murder), the Mountnessing silver bullion robbery, the Brinks Mat gold bullion money-laundering, and a mass-murder war crimes trial at the Hague.

Jefferson Memorial

In the film Billy Jack Goes to Washington, the title character Billy Jack stands inside the Jefferson Memorial after being framed for a scandal involving money laundering.

João Paulo Cunha

In August 2012, whilst running the Brazilian municipal election in Osasco, Cunha was forced to pull out after he was convicted of corruption and money laundering.

José Agustín Silvestre de los Santos

In December 2011, José Rijo, the Cincinnati Reds pitcher who won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1990, was subpeonaed by the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering Unit in relation to his business dealings with Castro, who was also a hotel and advertising agency owner, and for any information about Silvestre's murder.

Kontraplan

The international embezzlement scandal involving allegations of money laundering through local branches of the Hypo Group Alpe Adria bank was publicly talked about for the first time in Kontraplan.

Mario Villanueva

He was convicted of money-laundering offences (but cleared of drug-trafficking and organized crime charges) and spent six years in the Altiplano High-Security Prison in Almoloya de Juárez, Estado de México.

Melinda Haag

Former President And Executive Director Of Vanguard Public Foundation Sentenced To 40 Months In Prison For Fraud And Money Laundering

Moneyval

APG, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, also known as APGML

Montana Management

Not coincidentally, "Montana Management, Inc." was also the name of a money-laundering front company controlled by fictional drug lord Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in the 1983 film Scarface.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency

President George Bush said that Nigeria had made significant progress in counter narcotics and had effectively co-operated with the United States on drug-related and money laundering cases.

Protógenes Queiroz

From 2004 to July 2008 Quieroz led Operation Satiagraha, a major operation into misuse of public funds, money laundering and corruption, leading to the arrest of the banker Daniel Dantas and several other prominent figures, including Celso Pitta, another former mayor of São Paulo.

Shell Shaker

As the family gets closer and closer to the truth, involving tales of embezzlement, rape, money laundering, contributions to the Irish Republican Army and Mafia involvement, their lives become increasingly parallel to that of their ancestors.

Tommy Comerford

Under the terms of the Proceeds of Crime Act, police were eventually granted a Forfeiture Order by the Liverpool Magistrates Court, following an investigation by the Money Laundering Investigation Team, the family withdrew their claim.

Victor Attah

In September 2009 the Nigerian Justice Minister and Attorney General, Michael Aondoakaa, said he would not release any Nigerians in response to a warrant of arrest issued by the London Metropolitan Police over alleged money laundering and corrupt offences emanating from the $38 million Virgin Mobile shares acquisition.

Withdrawn Canadian banknotes

The denomination was withdrawn on the advice of the Solicitor General and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), as it was often used for money laundering and organized crime.