The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Treasury Department bureau with responsibilities that include disrupting terror and drug financing networks, plays an outsize role in defending U.S. national security interests. With only a few hundred full-time personnel, this relatively tiny agency has consistently punched above its weight, levying billions of dollars in civil penalties against offenders in recent years for money laundering and other violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.
Editor: In my opinion, Curt Schroder’s recent op-ed (Daily Times, March 21) misrepresents the nature and benefits of the False Claims Act legislation currently going through the Pennsylvania legis...