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  2. Operation Choke Point - Wikipedia

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    Operation Choke Point was an initiative of the United States Department of Justice beginning in 2013 [1] which investigated banks in the United States and the business they did with firearm dealers, payday lenders, and other companies that, while operating legally, were said to be at a high risk for fraud and money laundering.

  3. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An Act to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to make it unlawful for an issuer of securities registered pursuant to section 12 of such Act or an issuer required to file reports pursuant to section 15(d) of such Act to make certain payments to foreign officials and other foreign persons, to require such issuers to maintain accurate records, and for other purposes.

  4. IRS Criminal Investigation - Wikipedia

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    Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is the United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for investigating potential criminal violations of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes, such as money laundering, currency transaction violations, tax-related identity theft fraud and terrorist financing that adversely affect tax administration.

  5. Financial crime - Wikipedia

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    There are law enforcement agencies whose main enforcement activities focus on criminal violations of their country's tax code and related financial crimes, such as money laundering, currency violations, tax-related identity theft fraud, and terrorist financing. Some of these law enforcement agencies are: Australia - Australian Taxation Office

  6. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board - Wikipedia

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    The PCAOB was created in response to an ever increasing number of accounting "restatements" (corrections of past financial statements) by public companies during the 1990s, and a series of high-profile accounting scandals and record-setting bankruptcies by large public companies, notably those in 2002 involving WorldCom and Enron, and the audit ...

  7. Powell orders review of Fed ethics rules after stock trades ...

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    Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has directed staff to review the central bank system’s rules around stock trading following the public disclosure of several multi-million dollar trades made by senior ...

  8. Accounting scandals - Wikipedia

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    Turnover in accounting personnel or other deficiencies in accounting and information processes can create an opportunity for misstatement. As for misappropriation of assets, opportunities are greater in companies with accessible cash or with inventory or other valuable assets, especially if the assets are small or easily removed.

  9. Facilitating payment - Wikipedia

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    A facilitating payment, facilitation payment, [1] or grease payment [2] is a payment to government employees to speed up an administrative process whose outcome is already determined. [3] Although ethically questionable, it is not considered to be bribery according to the legislation of some states as well as in international anti-bribery ...