title: Anti-Money Laundering in a Nutshell: Awareness and Compliance for Financial Personnel and Business Managers
author:  Kevin Sullivan 
description: Kevin Sullivan is the director of the AntiMoney Laundering (AML) Training Academy, which provides AML, BSA, and compliance training, AML consulting, and AML independent reviews. He was the New York State money laundering investigations coordinator of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) El Dorado Federal Task Force (NY/NJ HIFCA) in Manhattan. Sullivans responsibilities included case reverse-engineering, SAR review and analysis, and special projects developing intelligence on emerging money-laundering threats, trends, and patterns. He was first exposed to money laundering while a New York State Police investigator on an undercover narcotics detail. He was subsequently detailed to a money laundering and financial crimes unit of the FBI White Collar Crimes Task Force. Sullivan was a lead instructor for ICEs Operation Cornerstone, which assisted financial institutions with their AML and BSA compliance programs and provided a liaison between private financial institutions and law enforcement. Sullivan holds a masters degree in economic crime management from Utica College of Syracuse University and a certificate in executive management from Cornell University. He is a Certified AntiMoney Laundering Specialist, a founding member and past president of the NY Chapter of the Association of Certified AntiMoney Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the Chairman of the ACAMS Education Task Force, and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Experts. He is an adjunct professor at Utica College, an ACAMS instructor, a frequent speaker on AML at seminars, conferences, and webinars, and an expert commentator on money laundering in national magazines and television.
zlib_text: Anti–Money 
  Laundering
  in a Nutshell
  Awareness and Compliance
  for Financial Personnel
  and Business Managers
  ―
  Kevin Sullivan
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  Contents
  About the Author                                             ix
  Acknowledgments                                             xi
  introduction                                                 xiii
  Chapter 1: 
  what is money laundering?                           1
  Chapter 2: 
  methods of money laundering                       15
  Chapter 3: 
  federal regulations                                 37
  Chapter 4: 
  Building a Qualit