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SARs Help Bust $1 Million Drug Ring Led by Significantly Older Student

SARs helped Federal investigators unravel a cross-country drug trafficking ring centered around a large urban university campus. The case featured shipments of marijuana and subsequent large currency deposits and withdrawals designed to avoid reporting requirements. Notably, a financial…

SARs Lead to Discovery of $1.8 Million Hidden in House

In a case started from SARs, investigators executing a search warrant found $1.8 million of unreported income stashed in a closet. Although the defendants legally earned the funds, they established a system to convert business revenues to cash with the explicit purpose of evading taxes. SARs…

Suspicious Activity Report Credited with Revealing Bank Fraud Scheme and Unraveling Auto Insurance Fraud Ring that Nets Principal Defendant Nearly $1.3 Million and a Nine-Year Prison Term

In a case initiated from a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR), investigators found perpetrators were operating two separate fraud schemes. The first scheme, a check-kiting fraud, was only possible because of the complicity provided by the chief defendant’s wife who worked at the bank where the…

314(a) Results Greatly Enhance Case Involving Material Support to Terrorism

A multi-agency task force, led by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, is investigating violations related to money laundering, tax fraud and material support to terrorism. As a…

Individual Sentenced for Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business & Bankruptcy Fraud

An individual was recently sentenced in United States District Court to six months in prison for operating an unlicensed money transmitter business and for bankruptcy fraud. The subject was also ordered to forfeit over $25,000. This case was initiated after the review of numerous Suspicious…

SAR Filing Uncovers Investment Fraud Scheme

The submission of a SAR filing led to the uncovering of a $28 million investment fraud scheme in which approximately 140 individuals were victimized. The subject convinced the victims/investors that he was a successful businessman who operated many highly profitable business ventures. The…

Suspect Sentenced to Five Years in Prison and Ordered to Pay $1 Million in Restitution

A suspect who owed the Internal Revenue Service more than $1 million was sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally structuring financial transactions and conspiring to defraud the United States Government.

The defendant’s spouse also pleaded guilty to…

Illicit Wire Activity Destined for Sanctioned Country

Law enforcement initiated an investigation into a defendant for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and assisting the business in the avoidance of Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) sanctions on a designated country.

The defendant was convicted of violating the…

Bank Secrecy Act Records, Tellers’ Testimony Lead to Convictions for Medicare Fraud, Structuring, and Money Laundering

During a healthcare fraud investigation, a routine search of BSA records revealed CTRs and SARs on one of the subjects. These records opened up avenues of prosecution for money laundering charges as the SARs detailed a series of transactions designed to evade the BSA reporting requirements.…

BSA Information Helps Jury Convict Cocaine Trafficker

Prosecutors used information directly derived from BSA records to help convict a repeat drug trafficker in Federal court. The wealth accumulated by the defendant through illicit drug sales became evident by the filing of numerous CTRs by casinos, a Form 8300 filed in conjunction with the…