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Corporate Exposure Under Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement: Mitigating Risk with Strong Compliance Programs

AML enforcement trends, compliance program essentials, cartel financing risks, and corporate strategies for navigating money laundering investigations under current DOJ priorities.

2025-09-25 13:00:00

Program Details

2025-09-25 13:00:00

Program Details

2025-09-25 13:00:00

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2025-09-25 13:00:00

Course Overview

Navigating AML Enforcement and Compliance Strategies

2025-09-25 13:00:00

Participants will learn current AML enforcement priorities, key money laundering statutes, and practical compliance strategies for financial institutions. These skills enable effective risk mitigation in an evolving regulatory landscape.

Format

CLE Credit

2h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

2

Key topics that will be covered

01
Money Laundering
Movement of illegal proceeds through the financial system or transactions for criminal activity.
02
BSA Compliance
Covered institutions must establish AML programs with policies, CDD, training, and independent testing.
03
Cartel Enforcement
Cartels designated as FTOs create material support liability for companies doing business with them.
04
Criminal Penalties
Money laundering violations carry fines up to $250,000 and five years imprisonment.
05
Self-Disclosure
Revised corporate enforcement policy provides clearer pathways to declination for early reporting.
06
Internal Investigations
Robust investigations require defined parameters, discovery processes, and experienced outside counsel.

Program schedule

clock 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

AML Enforcement Trends and Compliance Essentials

This foundational session defines money laundering and terrorist financing while examining the U.S. AML/CFT legal framework including key statutes like 18 U.S.C. § 1956 and the Bank Secrecy Act. Participants will learn about compliance program requirements, suspicious activity reporting obligations, and current enforcement priorities including cartel financing, Chinese money laundering organizations, and digital asset enforcement.

Leah MousheyLeah Moushey
Ian A. HerbertIan A. Herbert
Vanessa Singh JohannesVanessa Singh Johannes
Cary AronovitzCary Aronovitz
clock 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm EST

Networking Break Between Sessions

A brief intermission allowing participants to refresh and reflect on the compliance essentials covered in Session I. Use this time to prepare questions for the advanced enforcement topics ahead.

Leah MousheyLeah Moushey
Ian A. HerbertIan A. Herbert
Vanessa Singh JohannesVanessa Singh Johannes
Cary AronovitzCary Aronovitz
clock 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm EST

Navigating AML Enforcement and Valuation Disputes

This session examines the Trump administration’s focus on cartels and money laundering, including the unprecedented FTO designation of criminal organizations and resulting corporate liability risks. Participants will explore prosecutorial evidence gathering, sentencing enhancements, civil penalties, and practical strategies for minimizing risk through robust compliance measures, internal investigations, and the revised corporate voluntary disclosure program.

Leah MousheyLeah Moushey
Ian A. HerbertIan A. Herbert
Vanessa Singh JohannesVanessa Singh Johannes
Cary AronovitzCary Aronovitz
Leah Moushey

Leah Moushey

Miller & Chevalier

Ian A. Herbert

Ian A. Herbert

Miller & Chevalier

Vanessa Singh Johannes

Vanessa Singh Johannes

Foley & Lardner

Cary Aronovitz

Cary Aronovitz

Holland & Knight

Leah Moushey

Leah Moushey

Miller & Chevalier

Leah’s practice focuses on internal and government investigations, regulatory defense, and compliance advice on issues including foreign bribery, money laundering, sanctions and export controls violations, and fraud. She has particular experience counseling clients in the technology and fintech sectors, with expertise in issues arising in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Education & Credentials

Prior to law school, Leah lived in Maputo, Mozambique. During law school, she served as a legal extern in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division's Fraud Section, a legal intern at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and an extern at the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.

Experience

Leah has counseled clients in multi-jurisdictional internal and government-facing investigations, pre- and post-initial public offerings (IPOs), compliance audits, third party due diligence, and M&A due diligence. She interned at a non-governmental organization in Mozambique focusing on gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS.
Ian A. Herbert

Ian A. Herbert

Miller & Chevalier

Ian Herbert defends global companies, executives, and trustees in high-stakes government investigations and litigation, handling civil litigation and criminal enforcement matters with a focus on complex, cross-border disputes involving RICO, trade secret misappropriation, False Claims Act, bribery, tax fraud, and other fraud.

Professional Involvement

Mr. Herbert maintains a robust pro bono practice focused on representing individuals in criminal prosecutions and post-conviction proceedings. He is an editor of the firm's Money Laundering Enforcement Trends newsletter.

Experience

Mr. Herbert regularly engages with DOJ, SEC, and other federal and state regulators. He has extensive experience obtaining U.S. discovery for use in foreign proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Part of the firm's Trust and Family Office and Anti-Money Laundering practice groups, he advises on AML obligations, drafts AML policies, and conducts trainings. In 2017, he briefed, argued, and obtained a reversal of a criminal conviction in the DC Court of Appeals. In 2020, he secured early release of a client under the First Step Act. In 2024, he obtained a favorable settlement for a client assaulted in prison.
Vanessa Singh Johannes

Vanessa Singh Johannes

Foley & Lardner

Vanessa Singh Johannes is a seasoned trial attorney who counsels individuals and corporations on civil, criminal, and compliance matters, offering nearly two decades of experience as a former federal prosecutor and complex litigator.

Professional Involvement

Developed close working relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, ATF, DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, and FBI.

Experience

For a decade, Vanessa served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, where she tried dozens of jury trials, handled hundreds of criminal and civil investigations, and argued appellate matters before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She investigated and tried cases involving fraud, money laundering, espionage, civil rights, arms trafficking, human trafficking, and murder. In private practice, she has handled complex 'bet-the-company' cases, represents companies in civil matters and crises, conducts internal investigations, and crafts compliance programs. Prior to joining Foley, she was co-managing shareholder of a national law firm's Miami office.
Cary Aronovitz

Cary Aronovitz

Holland & Knight

Cary Aronovitz is a Miami trial lawyer focusing on government investigations, corporate compliance, complex commercial litigation, corporate and consumer fraud investigations, healthcare fraud investigations, and fraudulent transfer litigation and recovery.

Education & Credentials

Clerked for the Honorable Alicia O. Valle of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. While in law school, he was a member of the University of Florida Moot Court Team and won three moot court competitions, including best oralist in a competition judged by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Recognition & Leadership

Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2024 guide for Commercial Litigation. Received the 'On The Rise' award in 2023 by the Florida Legal Awards through the Daily Business Review. In 2021, named by Florida Trend magazine's Legal Elite as an Up & Comer for Civil Trial, recognizing him as the top 1.3 percent of Florida lawyers named to Legal Elite.

Professional Involvement

Led several multiagency investigative cases and developed close working relationships with FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, IRS Criminal Investigation, ICE HSI, DEA, Miami-Dade Police Department and local law enforcement agencies. Previously served as a committee chair to the Dade County Bar Association Legal Line.

Experience

In 2022, Mr. Aronovitz and Holland & Knight obtained a jury verdict in excess of $158 million following a four-week jury trial, the largest jury verdict that year in Florida. Prior to Holland & Knight, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida for six years, trying numerous jury trials and arguing cases before the Eleventh Circuit. He indicted and prosecuted hundreds of federal crimes including money laundering, bank fraud, human trafficking, cybercrimes, and achieved substantial asset forfeiture recoveries.
Leah Moushey

Leah Moushey

Miller & Chevalier

Leah’s practice focuses on internal and government investigations, regulatory defense, and compliance advice on issues including foreign bribery, money laundering, sanctions and export controls violations, and fraud. She has particular experience counseling clients in the technology and fintech sectors, with expertise in issues arising in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Education & Credentials

Prior to law school, Leah lived in Maputo, Mozambique. During law school, she served as a legal extern in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division's Fraud Section, a legal intern at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and an extern at the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.

Experience

Leah has counseled clients in multi-jurisdictional internal and government-facing investigations, pre- and post-initial public offerings (IPOs), compliance audits, third party due diligence, and M&A due diligence. She interned at a non-governmental organization in Mozambique focusing on gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS.
Ian A. Herbert

Ian A. Herbert

Miller & Chevalier

Ian Herbert defends global companies, executives, and trustees in high-stakes government investigations and litigation, handling civil litigation and criminal enforcement matters with a focus on complex, cross-border disputes involving RICO, trade secret misappropriation, False Claims Act, bribery, tax fraud, and other fraud.

Professional Involvement

Mr. Herbert maintains a robust pro bono practice focused on representing individuals in criminal prosecutions and post-conviction proceedings. He is an editor of the firm's Money Laundering Enforcement Trends newsletter.

Experience

Mr. Herbert regularly engages with DOJ, SEC, and other federal and state regulators. He has extensive experience obtaining U.S. discovery for use in foreign proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Part of the firm's Trust and Family Office and Anti-Money Laundering practice groups, he advises on AML obligations, drafts AML policies, and conducts trainings. In 2017, he briefed, argued, and obtained a reversal of a criminal conviction in the DC Court of Appeals. In 2020, he secured early release of a client under the First Step Act. In 2024, he obtained a favorable settlement for a client assaulted in prison.
Vanessa Singh Johannes

Vanessa Singh Johannes

Foley & Lardner

Vanessa Singh Johannes is a seasoned trial attorney who counsels individuals and corporations on civil, criminal, and compliance matters, offering nearly two decades of experience as a former federal prosecutor and complex litigator.

Professional Involvement

Developed close working relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, ATF, DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, and FBI.

Experience

For a decade, Vanessa served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, where she tried dozens of jury trials, handled hundreds of criminal and civil investigations, and argued appellate matters before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She investigated and tried cases involving fraud, money laundering, espionage, civil rights, arms trafficking, human trafficking, and murder. In private practice, she has handled complex 'bet-the-company' cases, represents companies in civil matters and crises, conducts internal investigations, and crafts compliance programs. Prior to joining Foley, she was co-managing shareholder of a national law firm's Miami office.
Cary Aronovitz

Cary Aronovitz

Holland & Knight

Cary Aronovitz is a Miami trial lawyer focusing on government investigations, corporate compliance, complex commercial litigation, corporate and consumer fraud investigations, healthcare fraud investigations, and fraudulent transfer litigation and recovery.

Education & Credentials

Clerked for the Honorable Alicia O. Valle of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. While in law school, he was a member of the University of Florida Moot Court Team and won three moot court competitions, including best oralist in a competition judged by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Recognition & Leadership

Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America 2024 guide for Commercial Litigation. Received the 'On The Rise' award in 2023 by the Florida Legal Awards through the Daily Business Review. In 2021, named by Florida Trend magazine's Legal Elite as an Up & Comer for Civil Trial, recognizing him as the top 1.3 percent of Florida lawyers named to Legal Elite.

Professional Involvement

Led several multiagency investigative cases and developed close working relationships with FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, IRS Criminal Investigation, ICE HSI, DEA, Miami-Dade Police Department and local law enforcement agencies. Previously served as a committee chair to the Dade County Bar Association Legal Line.

Experience

In 2022, Mr. Aronovitz and Holland & Knight obtained a jury verdict in excess of $158 million following a four-week jury trial, the largest jury verdict that year in Florida. Prior to Holland & Knight, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida for six years, trying numerous jury trials and arguing cases before the Eleventh Circuit. He indicted and prosecuted hundreds of federal crimes including money laundering, bank fraud, human trafficking, cybercrimes, and achieved substantial asset forfeiture recoveries.

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