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008 960426t19961996nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 96008626
020 $a155970330X (alk. paper)
020 $a9781559703307 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm34663237
035 $a(OCoLC)34663237
035 $a(NNC)6310778
035 $a6310778
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dUBA$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aHV6768$b.R63 1996
082 00 $a364.1/68$220
100 1 $aRobinson, Jeffrey,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88010396
245 14 $aThe laundrymen :$binside money laundering, the world's third-largest business /$cJeffrey Robinson.
250 $a1st North American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bArcade Pub. :$bDistributed by Little, Brown,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $a358 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [314]-346) and index.
520 1 $a"Money laundering has been a major part of the American criminal landscape since the days of its patron saint, Meyer Lansky. Watergate was essentially a money-laundering operation; so was Irangate. It is the one thing that Richard Nixon, the CIA, and Pablo Escobar have in common with Heidi Fleiss, BCCI, and the IRA. Some political action committees (PACs) have used dirty money, if unwittingly, to help elect politicians and then to keep them in office. Even the most sober and upright Wall Street bankers will admit that some of their banking assets derive from laundered money." "And who are the laundrymen? As Jeffrey Robinson proves in this blistering and up-to-the-minute expose, they are not the gun-toting Mafiosi of cliche; they are white-collar accountants, lawyers, and bankers - certified professionals who use sophisticated systems of layering, loopholes in banking laws, and professional privilege to do their dirty work. Gone are the days of briefcases stuffed with cash. Money laundering 1990s style has diversified. Drug traffickers moving the drugs no longer move the money, and their laundrymen don't need to know about the drugs. Corrupting everyone and everything it touches, the money gradually seeps into the foundations of the world's financial institutions, ready to fuel an ever-widening cycle of violence."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMoney laundering.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001252
650 7 $aCrimes de colarinho branco.$2larpcal
852 00 $boff,bus$hHV6768$i.R63 1996