Reported by Ben Miller (Summarize version featured below) The Bloomberg Tax article “Wall Street Fraudsters’ Sentences Bake in Risk of Future Crimes” discusses how the U.S. legal system incorporates the potential for future offenses when sentencing individuals convicted of financial crimes. Judges often consider the likelihood of recidivism, aiming to deter not only the convicted […]

Reported by Chanyaporn Chanjaroen and Cliff Harvey Venzon (Summary version featured below) The case of Alice Guo, the former mayor of Bamban, Philippines, highlights the deep entanglement between money laundering, transnational crime, and the online gambling industry in Southeast Asia. In February, a raid on a compound in Bamban uncovered over 600 people from seven countries, detained […]