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All Is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime (International and Comparative Criminology)

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I noticed another reviewer complained that there were too many names and details in this book.

Actually, that was my favorite thing about the book. Certain people deserve to be shamed for what they have done and I am happy to see their names in this book.

My only criticism is that the topic of the book is too wide. I think the book should have focused on Russian organized crime money laundering or Colombian drug cartel money laundering but not both.

John Christmas, author of "Democracy Society"

"The Bank of New York and Bruce Rappaport ... laundered billions of dollars for various entities composed of the new Russian mafia "

First of all this book was an absolutly fasinating read. Second of all any student of crime...true student of crime or crimefighter at some point has to study the biggest and the best. This is it.

I was expecting less details on names, dates, who-knows-who and who-did-what and more on the financial implications and banking wrongdoings of the whole case. This book is too full of details that do not really matter much and fails to address the big picture that its title leads us to beleive on. It goes on and on talking about the relationships between Russian mobs and BofNY officers and forget to mention where this money was coming from and going to (and if it did, you get so distracted with the unimportant details that you can actually miss it). I am still looking for a good money laundering book.