General Accounting Office Renews its Criticism of BSA Enforcement |
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations continues its watchdog role over enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act. On October 29, 1985, the Permanent Subcommittee held a status hearing on... |
Constantine G. Papavizas |
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1985-10-01 |
United States |
Bank Secrecy |
Department of Justice Privacy Exemptions |
On September 12, 1985, the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed to exempt a new system of records entitled the "General Files System of the Office of the Attorney General" from certain provisions of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
United States |
Privacy |
Select Committee Holds Hearing |
On September 12, 1985, the ranking members of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control in a hearing urged the Reagan Administration to give a higher priority to international... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
United States |
Drugs & Trafficking |
Meese Addresses Italy-USA-Switzerland Conference |
In a speech delivered to the Italy-USA-Switzerland Conference of the International Association of Jurists, on September 14, 1984, Edwin Meese III, Attorney General of the United States, praised new... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
Italy |
Law Enforcement |
Three Narcotics Trafficking Reports Issued by Congress |
Three reports have recently been issued by Congress on international narcotics. The International Narcotics Control Report (S. HRG. 99-74) contains a report of the Hearing before the Subcommittee on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
United States |
Drugs & Trafficking |
Achille Lauro Raises Panoply of Issues |
On October 7, 1985, the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship and the alleged murder of Mr. Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old U.S. citizen confined to a wheelchair, by four... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
Italy |
Extradition |
Narcoterrorism Bill Introduced and Expected to Pass |
On October 17, 1985, hearings were held by the House of Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, on legislation to provide rewards for information leading to arrest of persons who murder... |
Bruce Zagaris and Victoria Stea |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
United States |
Drug Enforcement |
Judicial Assistance and Bank Files in Switzerland |
The Geneva authroities may not hand over to the state prosecutors at the Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, District Court, all bank statements of two Turkish customers of a Geneva bank. This was the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
Switzerland |
Drugs & Trafficking |
Jensen Outlines Interdiction Strategy of the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board |
In testimony on October 24, 1985, before the Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice and Agriculture, Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, D. Lowell Jensen, Deputy... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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2 |
1985-10-01 |
United States |
Drug Enforcement |
U.S.-Bahamas Agreement for Interdicting Narcotics Trafficking |
On March 6, 1985, the Governments of the United States and The Bahamas concluded an agreement on the interdiction of narcotics trafficking. The U.S. agrees to provide the Bahamian Government with... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
Bahamas |
Drug Enforcement |
PLI Holds Commodities Program with Many International Issues |
The Practicing Law Institute (PLI) presented a program on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 1985 which dealt with current issues facing the CFTC... |
Constantine G. Papavizas |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
United States |
Law Enforcement |
UN. Crime Committee Meets |
From August 16 to September 6, 1985, the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders was held in Milan, Italy. |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
Italy |
Law Enforcement |
Senate Judiciary Considers US-UK Extradition Treaty |
Hearings on the Supplementary Treaty on Extradition Between the United States and the United Kingdom have been continuing. On August 1, 1985, The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held hearings... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
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Extradition |
ABA Committee on International Courts Reports on Compulsory Jurisd. |
Anthony D'Amato, Chairman, Committee on International Courts, has submitted a report urging the United States to make a modified adherence to the general compulsory jurisdiction of the International... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
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Jurisdiction |
Congressional Hearings on the Mining of Nicaraguan Ports & Harbors |
Prints are now avaliable on the hearings and markup before th Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives on H. Con. Res, 290 concerning the mining of Nicaraguan ports and harbors. |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
Nicaragua |
Maritime |
Inter-American Center of Tax Administrators (CIAT) Activities |
A publication called "Tax Administration Review" is being published jointly by the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrators (CIAT) Executive Secretariat and the Institute of Fiscal Studies of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
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Tax Enforcement |
U.S.-Swiss 2d Round of Mutual Assist. Negotiations |
The Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (#201, 1985) reported on September 1/2, 1985, on page 11, that the second round of talks between the Swiss and American judicial assistance authorities provides a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
Switzerland |
Mutual Legal Assistance |
Inter-American Bar Association Conference Papers |
On the XXV Conference of the Inter-American Bar Association, in Acapulco, Mexico, several papers were submitted for the Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure. Bruce Zagaris, the Committee's... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
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Law Enforcement |
GAO Report on Nazi War Criminals |
On June 28, 1985, the GAO released a report, entitled "Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to Further U.S. Anti-Communist Objectives in Europe-Some Immigrated to the United States". After World... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
Europe |
Holocaust |
USAID Regional Administration of Justice Grant to ILANUD |
A current project for the Regional Administration of Justice grant to the United States International Development Cooperation Agency for International Development is described in a Project Paper. A... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
1985-11-01 |
United States |
U.S. Federal Government |