March 4, 2023

China’s Role in Black-Market Money Laundering

  Illicit proceeds are the catalyst driving the tragedies surrounding the open U.S. border. Yet few realize the quiet ascendency of Chinese money launderers. They are displacing Colombians and Mexicans. Their preferred methodology is the B...

January 11, 2020

Treasury’s Role in Financing Iranian Terror

There are reports that some of the $1.7 billion that Obama gave to Iran as part of the Iran deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been traced to Iran-backed terror groups, including Qassem Soleimani’s Quds Force, Iran’s p...

August 21, 2017

China, Inc. Is the World's Biggest Money-Laundering Threat

Hypocrisy – thy name is communist China.   During the Cold War, Chinese communists taunted the U.S.A. with cries of imperialism. Our large multinational corporations were denounced for greedily exploiting the Third World.  Our c...

April 25, 2017

Bulk Cash Pays for the Wall

In the hyper-charged debate over the merits of building “the wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border and its funding impact on a possible government shutdown, I would like to propose a solution.  The focus has largely been on contraban...

November 3, 2016

'Deft Diplomacy' Results in the Politicization of the Treasury Department

This past April, Treasury's acting under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence spoke at a Washington, D.C. forum and delivered remarks that demonstrated what I long suspected: the politicization of the Department of Treasury's en...