Banking Crimes: Fraud, Money Laundering and Embezzlement explores issues with the investigation, prosecution, and defense of crimes against federally insured financial institutions. Author and private attorney John K. Villa specializes in civil and criminal corporate and financial services related litigation in Washington D.C. Using his expertise from years of practice,
Banking Crimes is an attempt to collect and extract the significance of all the Federal court opinions interpreting the many criminal statutes passed by Congress in recent years. This work is comprised solely of the author's interpretation; federal prosecutors, defenders, and bankers would all benefit from this comprehensive examination of white collar crimes. The text includes primary excerpts of US Code and the Code of Federal Regulations. Appendices include relevant supplementary materials such as excerpts from the
United States Attorneys' Manual and
Financial Institution Fraud Federal Prosecution Manual.
Includes analysis of the following noteworthy federal statutes:
- Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act--FIRREA (Chapters 3 and 7)
- Misapplication and Embezzlement, 18 U. S. C. A §656 and §657 (Chapter 3)
- Bank Secrecy Act (Chapter 6)
- Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act (Chapter 6)
- Right to Financial Privacy Act--RFPA (Chapter 9)
- Continuing Financial Crimes Enterprise Statute, 18 U.S.C.A. §225 (Chapter 10)
- Obstruction of Justice (Chapter 10)
- Bank Holding Company Act (Chapter 10)
Banking Crimes is available for check out from the Wisconsin State Law Library.
