Bruce Zagaris, Esq.
BERLINER CORCORAN & ROWE, L.L.P.
        1101 Seventeenth St., N.W. Ste.  1100,  Washington, DC 20036-4798
        (ph.) 202-293-5555; (fax) 202-293-9035; bzagaris@bcr-dc.com
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Summary of Bruce Zagaris' Practice in
Counseling and Litigating on Money Movement

	Since 1975, much of Mr. Zagaris' work has involved counseling on international financial sector and matters and the regulation of money movement.  Much of his practice is counseling and participating in international enforcement initiatives of a regulatory and white collar crime nature concerning money movement. 
 
Work for Governments and International Organizations

	Since 1981, he has helped a Caribbean Government (Barbados) to develop its offshore financial sector in a way that encourages only legitimate investments.  The work has included advice and assistance on negotiating enforcement cooperation agreements, such as a tax information exchange agreement, and legislation, such as asset forfeiture legislation.  He assisted in the mid-1980s as a consultant for Gray & Co. the Government of the Cayman Islands in its negotiations of a mutual assistance in criminal matters agreement with the U.S.  In 1991, he was a consultant for the British High Commission in the Caribbean in its work on the supervision and regulation of offshore banks and trust companies in the Caribbean.  In 2001, he helped another Caribbean jurisdiction negotiate a tax information exchange agreement with the U.S.

	In a related area he has been consulting and teaching for law enforcement officials and international organizations, including the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank (Asia-Pacific Group on AML, June 3, 2002 in Brisbane), and Caribbean Financial Action Task Force.  In December 1989, he served as a consultant to the U.N. Crime Committee on international cooperation to counter the growing internationalization of organized crime activities.  Many of his recommendations concerned anti-money laundering.

	In the summer of 1992, he was a consultant for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), analyzing compliance with international anti-money laundering laws by nine selected countries in three geographical regions.  He previously wrote a paper for PERF on ways to combat Colombian drug cartels, especially through anti-money laundering and asset forfeiture controls.

	In December 2005, he was the keynote speaker at the ENCLA (Money Laundering Strategy Conference) meeting of the Brazil government.  

	In March 2006, he was a consultant and speaker for the IMF at a money laundering conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

	On several occasions, he has served as a speaker for the U.S. Information Agency in other countries, including Mexico, Chile, the Czech Republic, Nigeria, and Portugal, and on satellite television programs on money laundering, international tax enforcement, and financial investigations.  Periodically, Mr. Zagaris has consulted for the State Department on requests by foreign governments for technical and financial assistance on administration of justice projects.  In 1996, he advised the National Security Council of initiatives against transnational organized crime.  During 1995-2001, he has lectured for the Foreign Service Institute to U.S. diplomats appointed to Mexico on U.S.-Mexico law enforcement issues.

	Some of his work for governments involved conceptualizing, preparing, editing, and advising on draft legislation with respect to financial regulation and anti-money laundering.

	In the early 1990s, for the U.N. Drug Control Program he evaluated a program to train and provide manuals on prosecuting anti-money laundering and asset forfeiture cases in the Caribbean.  In 1986, he was a consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development on the Caribbean Justice Improvement Project, whose aim was to strengthen the legal institutions of the Commonwealth Caribbean.

	In October 2012, he trained prosecutors in Bahrain and the U.A.E. on prosecuting money laundering cases. In July 2013, he participated in seminars/training for the Supreme Court of Egypt on prosecuting money laundering and asset recovery.  In 2016, he trained Libyan prosecutors on prosecuting money laundering and asset recovery. 
	
	In 2017-18, he has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, helping a government strengthen it anti-money laundering framework and procedures.

	In Jan. 2018, he conducted a two-day module on corruption-based anti-money laundering for the International Anti-Corruption Academy at the World Bank.

	In May 2021, he conducted a one-day course for U.S. intelligence officers on offshore financial entities.

Congressional Testimony

	At the request of Congress and/or a foreign government he has testified five times on international enforcement and regulatory policy, including tax treaties, tax information exchange agreements, Internet gaming, and mutual assistance in criminal matters treaties.

Due Diligence Financial Institutions and Other Businesses 

	Mr. Zagaris has advised financial institutions and corporations on developing and revising anti-money laundering due diligence plans.  He has also prepared draft due diligence plans for foreign financial institutions.

Litigation

	His practice includes criminal trial and appellate work.  He has served as counsel in more than forty criminal trials and approximately five appellate cases.  In addition, he has handled extradition cases both on the interstate and international levels.  He has also handled many criminal cases which have been resolved at pre-trial stages.  His criminal work has included prisoner rights, administrative handling of prisoners, representation of parolees, probation revocation matters, and early release of prisoners on emergency medical problems. 

	With respect to money laundering and related litigation, in 1989, he was a consultant to the defense team in the BCCI case involving money laundering and related charges.  In the mid-1980s, he served as a consultant to Gray & Co. on behalf of Marc Rich & Co. concerning the intercompany pricing and related litigation with the U.S. Government.

	In the 1990s, he served as an expert witness on several U.S. district court cases involving charges of money laundering.  His role in one case (U.S. v. Ricardo Leyton, U.S. Dist. Ct., M.D. Fla., Tampa Div., Case No. 94-41-CR-T-25(E))  is discussed in Federal Jury in Fla. Rejects DEA Money Laundering Sting, BNA Criminal Practical Manual 451 (1995).  He testified as an expert witness in an arbitration on behalf of an internal auditor who reported on anti-money laundering irregularities and was wrongfully discharged. He has advised clients on international asset forfeiture issues.  In criminal litigation he has advised and represented financial institutions that were unindicted co-conspirators on discovery requested by the U.S. Government. 

	One large securities fraud case, which Mr. Zagaris helped prosecute on behalf of a victim, has involved obtaining a TRO, locating and freezing assets, and persuading a prosecutor to bring criminal charges.

	In one case he has counseled defense counsel with the approval of the prosecutor on how to repatriate assets put overseas in assumed names.  In the case the defendant has pled guilty and promised to repatriate the money put in false names.

	One state court case involving poker video in West Virginia in 1992 was settled.

	Several of the cases in which Mr. Zagaris has been retained as an expert witness have been settled.  For instance, in 1995, he was retained as an arbitrator before an arbitral panel of the New York Stock Exchange involving international transfers of money by a securities broker and issues of Panamanian company law, a case that was settled. 

	In 2000-1, he served as consultant and counsel of record in a U.S. extradition case involving money laundering, a foreign asset forfeiture case, and then a U.S. prosecution – all involving a former foreign head of state.  In 2001, he consulted for a lawyer on behalf of a former foreign minister on U.S. assistance relating to accusations of corruption and related money laundering charges.

	Mr. Zagaris has served as a consultant and expert witness on a number of cases involving offshore jurisdictions, both for the defense and prosecution.  Many of these cases involved tax charges.

Teaching and Training
	
	Since 1990, he has been an adjunct professor at several laws schools, including Fordham Law School, where he taught international criminal business law, Washington College of Law, American University, where he taught International Narcotics Control, which had aspects of anti-money laundering and asset forfeiture, John Marshall College, Chicago, where he taught international criminal law, the State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, where he taught a course on International White Collar Crime in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice, and several times at the Univ. of Montana School of Law, where he has taught courses on international criminal law and international white collar crime.  During 2000-2001 he taught anti-money laundering in two graduate diploma programs at the McHari Institute, Bahamas.  In June 2-5, 2002, he trained government officials during the meeting of the Asia Pacific Group on Anti-Money Laundering in Brisbane.  He has taught an online LL.M. course on Financial Crimes and Institutional Security for the Thomas Jefferson Law School.  In January 2018, he gave a module for the International Anti-Corruption Academy on corruption-based money laundering at the World Bank. Since then he has supervised masters theses from the IACA, many of which concern AML issues.  In February 2020, he taught a course on “Training the Trainers on Money Laundering Prosecution and Asset Recovery” at the Criminal Justice Training Institute in Cairo, Egypt. Since 2018, he has taught an online course on international white collar crime for the Texas A&M LLM program on wealth and risk management. In 2021, he has given a series of one-day courses on “Offshore Financial Entities” to intelligence officials through a Dept. of Defense contractor.  In 2021-3, he has served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense, giving a seven-hour course on offshore financial centers to intelligence officers.

Boards

	From 1980-2008, Mr. Zagaris has been a board member of the Money Laundering Alert publication.  Since April 2012 Mr. Zagaris has been on the board of advisors of the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (http://www.acfcs.org) and for the last 3-4 years of the D.C. chapter of the ACFCS.  
  
Publications	

	In 1985, he, founded and since has served as editor-in-chief of the International Enforcement Law Reporter, a monthly publication distributed electronically by Lexis-Nexis.  Each issue has several articles on international aspects of anti-money laundering, asset forfeiture and related issues.

	Mr. Zagaris has written and spoken widely on regulating and litigating money movement issues.  Some examples follow. He authored the Organization of American States to Control International Narcotics Trafficking and Money Laundering, 57 Review Internationale de Droit Pénal 119-33 (1986) (co-author).  Other journal articles he has authored on money laundering include:   Dollar Diplomacy: International Enforcement of Money Movement and Related Matters--A United States Perspective, 22 George Washington Journal of International Law & Economics 466-552 (1989); Asset Forfeiture/ International and Foreign Law:  An Emerging Regime, 5 Emory International Law Review 446-513 (1991) (co-author);  Constructing a Financial Enforcement Regime to Reallocate Assets from the 'Bad Guys' to the 'Good Guys,' in Gray Area Phenomena Confronting the New World Disorder (Max G. Manwaring ed. 1993) 93-108; Money Laundering, Financial Fraud, and Technology:  The Perils of an Instantaneous Economy, 26 George Washington Journal of International Law & Economics 61-107 (1992) (co-author); Constructing an International Financial Enforcement Subregime:  The Implementation of Anti-Money-Laundering Policy, 19 Brooklyn Journal of  International Law 872-965 (1993) (co-author); Avoiding Criminal Liability in the Conduct of International Business, 21 Wm. Mitchell L.R. 751-838 (1996);  Jokers or One-Eyed Jacks Wild?  The International Enforcement Aspects of Gaming Law, Gaming Enforcement (ABA Nat’l Instit.  1997); Technology Trumps the Law in International Gaming, in Gaming Enforcement II (ABA Nat’l Instit.  1998); International Enforcement of Internet Gambling, in Internet Gambling Report II and III (Anthony N.  Cabot, ed.)  277-92 (1999); A Brave New World: Recent Developments in Anti-Money Laundering and Related Litigation Traps for the Unwary in International Trust Matters, 32 Vand.  J.  Transnat’l L.  1026-1116 (1999);  Uncle Sam Reaches Out: Current United States Money Laundering Law (with Benjamin Hinceman), 1 Financ. Crime Rev.  37-44 (2000); Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering (with Scott Ehlers), 6 Foreign Policy in Focus (No. 18, May 2001)(http://www.fpif.org); Trends in International Money Laundering from a U.S. Perspective, 35 Int’l Lawy. 839-65 (2001); Tax Havens Beware, Fiscal Transparency, and What Else?, 3 J. of Int’l Banking Reg. 111-44 (Oct. 2001); The Merging of The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financial Enforcement Regimes After September 11, 2001, 22 Berkeley J. Of Int’l L.123-58 (2004); U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Act Includes Corporate Transparency and New Regulation of Cryptocurrency and Antique Dealers, Ch. 4 in The State of Criminal Justice 2021, 53-66 (ABA Crim. Just. Sec.); My Middle Eastern Odyssey (Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya) in Building the Rule of Law: Firsthand Accounts from a Thirty-Year Global Campaign (James R. Silkenat and Gerold W. Libby, eds.) 358-62 (2021 ABA)(re training prosecutors on cross-border AML and asset recovery).

 	With respect to books he is author of International White Collar Crime:  Cases and Materials (2d ed. Cambridge U. Press, 2015); editor, along with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald, of Handbook on International Drug Control (Greenwood Press 463 pp. 1992), which has chapters on anti-money laundering and asset forfeiture policy.  He is an editor, along with Jordan Paust, et al, of International Criminal Law:  Cases & Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 4th edition 2013), which has sections on anti-money laundering; he is co-chairman of International Exchange of Tax Information: Recent Developments (PLI, 1985, F4-3566). 

Speaking

	Since 1989, Mr. Zagaris has spoken between approximately 8-15 times a year on anti-money laundering and related topics.  The following discussion summarizes his talks from October 1989 to July 1992.

	He was a panelist on Oct. 20, 1989 at an ABA National Institute on International Banking and Foreign Bank Operations in the United States, discussing "Lender Liability, Money laundering, RICO, and other Headaches," and on Oct. 26, 1989 at an Amer. Bar Assoc.-Amer. Banking Assoc. program on Money Laundering in New York City, where he discussed foreign and international law aspects of combatting money laundering.  On October 27, 1989, he spoke on "The Bank Secrecy Act, Money Laundering and Law Enforcement," at an International Symposium on Money Laundering in Coral Gables, Florida.  On May 18, 1990, he spoke on "The Regulatory Maze:  Tax Compliance, Monetary Controls, Money Laundering, Investment Restrictions and Disclosure and Bank Secrecy," at the ABA National Institute on International Estate Planning in New York City.  On October 26, 1990, he spoke on "Internal Corporate Investigations" at the American Society of Industrial Security in Washington, D.C.  On Nov. 17, 1990, he addressed the 2nd Conference of the International Banking Association in Cayman Islands on developments in enforcement of transnational money movement.  On Dec. 3-4, 1990, he spoke on "The Developing Law of International Cooperation" before an ABA National institute on Forfeitures and Asset Freezes in Washington, D.C.  His materials on the subject, which are co-authored, appear in the handbook.  On March 11, 1991, he spoke on "International Regulation of Movement" to the International Tax Planning Assoc. in St. Martin.  On July 22, 1991, he spoke in Spanish on anti--money laundering enforcement to the Panama Bar Association and Panama Banking Association.  On July 6, he spoke on defending against money laundering and tax crimes at the Int'l Bar Assoc. meeting in Munich.  On September 27, he moderated a panel on the international law aspects of anti-money laundering enforcement at a conference of the American Bar Assoc./American Bankers Assoc.  On October 1, he spoke for the entire day on anti-money laundering from the perspective of foreign banks in Bogota, Colombia to the Colombian Bankers Assoc.  On December 2, 1991, he participated as a panelist on a Worldnet program on money laundering sponsored by USIA and three Latin American Governments.    

	On March 18-19, 1992, he co-chaired a program on anti-money laundering and compliance for private bankers sponsored by the Inst. for Int'l Research in New York.  On March 22-27, 1992, he lectured in tour cities in Mexico, often in Spanish, on anti-money laundering enforcement on programs arranged by the U.S. Information Agency.  On April 2, 1992, he moderated a program, entitled "New Frontiers in the Regulation of Int'l Money Movement in the Wake of BCCI," sponsored by the American Soc. of Int'l Law in Washington.  On May 20-21, he spoke at the ABA Nat'l Instit. on Asset Forfeiture in Miami.  On July 9-10, 1992, he spoke at a program on the prevention and detection of money laundering held by the Venezuelan Bankers Assoc. in Caracas, Venezuela.

	In December 2005, he was the keynote speaker at the Money Laundering Strategy Conference of the Brazil government in Vitória, Brazil.

	In October 2011, he served as a panelist at the Brookings Institute on money laundering issues involving Argentina and Mexico.
									
	Over the years he has spoken at many conferences of Money Laundering Alert, the American Bar Assoc./American Bankers Association, the Institute of International Research, IBC, and other organizers on money laundering.  A sample are listed above.

Podcasts

	On June 30, 2021, the ABA Criminal Justice Section published my Podcast of the Anti Money Laundering Act of 2020 on Just Pod <https://www.buzzsprout.com/252350/8783233.

Media

	He has been widely quoted on regulation of money movement by newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Boston Globe and journals, such as The National Journal, The National Law Journal, and The Legal Times of Washington.  He has been interviewed as an expert on these issues for broadcast news, including ABC News, CNBC and Univision, the latter in Spanish.