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Podcast: Legal Listening: The Fox Rothschild LLP Podcast
Episode: The Presumption of Innocence - Episode 50
Description: Episode 50
Hidden in Plain Sight: How Kleptocrats Exploit U.S. Financial Systems
The shadowy finances that fueled the 9/11 terrorist attacks cut a somber scar into America.
Despite the anti-money laundering initiatives woven in the Patriot Act, that wound continues to fester, according to Casey Michel, who suggests U.S. federal and state systems make America a cooperative collaborator in the money laundering schemes of kleptocrats.
Casey, author of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History and Director of the Combating American Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, joins host Matt Adams...