Reported by BEN WIEDER and DEVON MILLEY The eight story Courthouse Place office building in downtown Fort Lauderdale is a couple blocks from the Broward County courthouse, which makes it an attractive home for the dozens of lawyers and legal services companies that rent space in the building. It even houses a few offices for prosecutors […]
Reported by Deborah Connor, Mark Edelstein, Thomas Fileti, Marc-Alain Galeazzi, Kaleb Keller, Malka Levitin, and Laura Linda Miller of Morrison & Foerster LLP On February 16, 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, which would require certain real estate professionals to report certain transaction information to FinCEN in connection […]
From strip malls in Houston suburbs to beach houses in Brownsville, Texas is an enormous haven for money launderers. But for a long time, nobody has seemed to be in any hurry to do anything to stop dirty money flowing into the Lone Star State. Could that be changing? For several years, the U.S. Department […]
Reported by Reuters A long-awaited U.S. rule aimed at curbing money laundering in real estate has reached a key White House office for review, the final hurdle for it to clear before it can be formally proposed next year. The rule, put forth by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), reached the Office […]
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