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Selected Works

Stefan D Cassella

Selected Works

2003

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Application Of 18 Usc 1960 To Informal Money Service Businesses, Stefan D. Cassella Aug 2003

Application Of 18 Usc 1960 To Informal Money Service Businesses, Stefan D. Cassella

Stefan D Cassella

The article proposes that 18 USC 1960, a criminal statute that criminalizes the unlicensed operation of a money service business, may be used to prosecute not only traditional bricks and mortar businesses, but also informal money transfer operations of the kind typically used by drug trafficking, terrorist financing and other criminal organizations.

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Provisions Of The Usa Patriot Act Relating To Asset Forfeiture In Transnational Cases, Stefan D. Cassella Mar 2003

Provisions Of The Usa Patriot Act Relating To Asset Forfeiture In Transnational Cases, Stefan D. Cassella

Stefan D Cassella

The article outlines the provisions of the USA Patriot Act that enhance the power of the US Government to use the asset forfeiture laws to recover property involved in transnational crime, including the power to seize assets from the correspondent account of a foreign bank.

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Reverse Money Laundering, Stefan D. Cassella Dec 2002

Reverse Money Laundering, Stefan D. Cassella

Stefan D Cassella

The author discusses the need to enhance the existing money laundering statutes so that they apply not only to financial transactions involving the proceeds of past crimes, but also transactions intended to promote future criminal conduct.

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The Development Of Asset Forfeiture Law In The United States, Stefan D. Cassella Dec 2002

The Development Of Asset Forfeiture Law In The United States, Stefan D. Cassella

Stefan D Cassella

This chapter, written for a foreign audience unfamiliar with U.S. constitutional law, traces the history of the development of asset forfeiture law in the United States from the 18th Century to present, with focus on the constitutional issues that had to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. A similar study appears as Chapter 2 of the author's treatise Asset Forfeiture Law in the United States.

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