In a new op-ed published in the Connecticut Post, two Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) whistleblowers urge Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) to support the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Improvement Act. The whistleblowers, Frederic Whitehurst and WNN’s Jane Turner, argue that “given the war in Ukraine, and the billions of dollars Russian oligarchs have laundered into the West, the need to immediately pass this law is overwhelming.”
The AML Whistleblower Improvement Act addresses current loopholes in the U.S. Treasury Department’s AML Whistleblower Program and expands the program to cover sanctions whistleblowing.
Leading whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto explained the importance of the bill on WNN’s Whistleblower of the Week podcast. He claims that the bill is “maybe the most important anti-corruption law in the last 50 years.”
In their op-ed, Whitehurst and Turner connect their own experiences blowing the whistle to the need for strong whistleblower laws protecting money laundering and sanctions whistleblowers. “We know firsthand the power whistleblowers have in exposing crimes otherwise hard to detect,” they write. “We both held highly distinguished positions in our respective roles at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We know how insiders are the key to detecting corruption. We know that one whistleblower alone, in Estonia, disclosed a scheme where $240 billion was laundered from Russia and former Soviet states...
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