Re:Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to...
by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:00PM
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In our recent ACAMS chapter event, the IRS person seemed very eager to be pro-active ( and in AML world the general push is towards greater surveillance anyway ). I don't know how common this attitude is, but I never hear anyone really challenging it either.
There’s a bi-weekly process called “314(a) Information Sharing” that’s run by the Treasury Department under the USA PATRIOT Act. It requires financial institutions to pass all kinds of information on to the agencies in the Department - IRS, Secret Service, Customs, ATF, Homeland Security, etc. - who are looking into various matters. All of those agencies are under the same umbrella and they absolutely work together.
A good friend of mine is also a forensic accountant/investigator for the US Attorney’s Office so I know the IRS works closely with the DOJ though I’m not familiar with how that process works in practice.