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Summary: Entertainly written and educational
Review: An excellent discussion of crime, organized crime, and how it affects daily life. Money, and its mysterious movements, are at the center of the book, of course. But it digresses into drugs, gambling, prostitution, gambling, and other ways in which illegal income is generated
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Summary: Readable Book Straight From the Heart
Review: Excellent book. Breaks through the barriers of political correctness that Canadians too often suffer from. It provides an entertaining and informative straight from the heart read. I hope this is the first in series.
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Summary: The stunning reality of financial crime exposed!
Review: Mathers, an internationally recognized forensic expert, has really brought a useful book to the table for those interested in how exactly money laundering or big-money crime affects them. A former undercover RCMP officer, Mathers laundered money himself for many years; out of the trunks of cars, in the backrooms of seedy bars... and at banks and brokerage offices on Bay Street in Toronto, on Wall Street in New York, and, get this, in lawyer's offices, and sometimes in judge's chambers. By describing the problem, Mathers makes the connection for us between $100 million cocaine deals and why and how the drug dealer can be a client at the same bank as you. Bankers- please read the chapter on "Domestic Banking and Securities"; it is NOT the boring cont-ed you've read at industry conferences. It IS a highly readable and instructive description of what bankers *should* be doing, and how they can understand the purposes of the legislation they struggle with. Countless first hand descriptions and case studies of how he did the crimes as an operative for the RCMP, FBI, DEA etc.- and Mathers turns it into useable information for us. I recommend CRIME SCHOOL to financial professionals because it warrants their time: this book should be required reading. I do not recommend this book to natives of Dominican Republic or Quebec... But I do recommend the book to all others because it is hilarious, informative and telling. A great book! -MWContents:
*Intro by Norm Inkster, former Commissioner of the RCMP and Former President of Interpol
*Review by Jim Richards, Director of Global AML for Bank of America (and Fleet)
*Review by Reid Morden, former Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service *What is Money Laundering?
*Organized Crime
*Getting Money into Banks
*Terrorists
*Domestic Banking and Securities
*Offshore Banking (includes Correspondent Banking, fei-chein, hawalla, black market peso)
*The "Pen" with the Lifetime Guarantee (the manual on how best to enjoy your prison term)
*Cops, Cash and Corruption
*Economic Subversion and the Gray Market Economy
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Summary: Only 25% of the text relates to money laundering
Review: This book strays a lot from its purported core subject. You'll read about tangential matters ranging from how drug dealers pack drugs for shipment to why Canada has the best prison system (if you are a criminal!). Written by a long time Canadian Mountie, it's not clear what type of reader this book is for. There is recurring use of the "I can't tell you exact details for fear you might abuse the information" excuse, so it can't be written to investigators, as it claims. There are some odd little errors. One photo shows a supposedly real Picasso, used as currency among drug dealers. But even based on the grainy B/W it's an obvious screaming fake. Still, the writing is smooth and it's a fast pleasant read complete with a dose of humor.
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