Abstract
This Comment discusses the effect that international organized crime and foreign government corruption has upon money laundering and the resultant need for the FMLDA. Part I discusses the basic elements of money laundering and the criminal actors who launder internationally, and anlyzes existing U.S. legislation designed to combat laundering and problems in the current legislation. Part II explains the legislative history, purpose, and proposed provisions of the FMLDA. Part III advocates adoption of this Act, and argues that the United States should no longer be complicit in the corruption and degradation of foreign governments via U.S. financial institutions.
Recommended Citation
Juli Fendo,
Attacking the Tools of Corruption: The Foreign Money Laundering Deterrence and Anticorruption Act of 1999,
23 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1540
(1999).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol23/iss5/11