Practitioners Discuss Defects of Criminalizing International Tax Fraud as a Separate Money Laundering Offense

On March 18, 2009, a group of concerned practitioners, many of whom are members of the American Bar Association Sections of Taxation, International Law, and Criminal Justice, and alumni of the Department of Justice, sent a letter to members of Congressional Committees and the Executive branch about their belief that subsection 2(g) of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA) of 2009 (S. 386) has been inappropriately put in the bill and should be removed...[more]