An eye-opening study of a three hundred-billion-dollar-a-year worldwide money laundering process explains how the system works, from the basics to more elaborate processes, and delves into the underground world of money laundering to prove that every American citizen and business transaction is affected. Tour.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Money made illegally presents a problem when it is in vast quantities of bills, but, as Robinson (Yamani) shows in this staggering expose, there is no dearth of bankers, lawyers, businesspeople, even government officials willing to help launder it. Among the contentions in this important book: worldwide, more money is spent on illicit drugs than on food; virtually every bill in circulation in the U.S. bears microscopic traces of cocaine; dozens of Third World countries would collapse economically if it were not for drug money. And those in charge of cleaning dirty money are sophisticated in creating paper trails that can take months or years to unravel; some of the machinations are so complex that reading about them here demands close attention. Among the specific cases Robinson discusses are those involving Italy's Banco Ambrosiano, tied to the Vatican Bank (IOR), and the BCCI scandal. The prognosis he presents is alarming: electronic banking will solve the major problems encountered when laundering money.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Robinson, a journalist and biographer (Bardot, LJ 5/1/95), offers insight into the elaborate schemes of money laundering, which has become a major industry and a driving force behind cash economies worldwide. For the first half of the book, Robinson presents numerous money-laundering scenarios in no particular order. His writing becomes more intriguing when, in the second half, he devotes whole chapters to specific schemes. Here we also learn about the futile attempts of governments to eradicate the corrupting influence of money laundering, which leads to all sorts of criminal activities. While Ann Woolner's Wash Gold: The Story Behind the Biggest Money Laundering Investigation in U.S. History (LJ 10/1/94) focuses on one high-profile scam, Robinson's informative book, though flawed, conveys the prevalence of this epidemic. It also contains an extensive bibliography. Recommended for criminal justice collections.?Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City,
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Jeffrey Robinson
Official website: http://www.jeffreyrobinson.com
Jeffrey Robinson (born 1945) is a native New Yorker who lived in Europe from 1970-2007. The international bestselling author of 25 books, Robinson is a recognized expert on organized crime, fraud and money laundering, and has been labeled, by the British Bankers' Association, "the world's most important financial crime journalist."
Contents
* 1 Background
* 2 Non-fiction
* 3 Fiction
* 4 Radio and television
* 5 Bibliography
* 6 Non-fiction
* 7 Fiction
* 8 Screenplays, teleplays and radio plays
* 9 Journalism and short stories
* 10 Jeffrey Robinson on You Tube
* 11 Website
Background
Born in Long Beach, Robinson is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia (1967). While still at school, he wrote for television and radio, including a popular weekly children's show and was on the writing staff of The Mike Douglas Show, a nationally televised daily talk show. He continued working in the media during his four year stint as an officer in the United States Air Force. Charged with running a press and public relations office for five generals at the height of the Vietnam War, he hosted a weekly talk show, scripted and directed several film projects, wrote short stories for national magazines and moonlighted as a disc jockey on local radio.
When his military obligation was completed at the end of 1970, he took up residence in a small village in the south of France. Using that as his base, he vagabonded around the world, writing articles and short stories for leading North American and British periodicals. His magazine credits include Playboy, McCalls, Barron's, Gourmet, True, Ambassador, Mademoiselle, Reader's Digest and TV Guide; his newspaper credits include The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner, The Christian Science Monitor and The International Herald Tribune (for which he was a major contributor of features during the 1970s). In Britain his feature journalism has appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and the Mail on Sunday, among others.
He moved to the UK in 1982, with more than 600 published stories and articles to his credit, to concentrate on writing books. In 2007, he returned to New York and now divides his time between the US and the UK.
[edit] Non-fiction
Robinson is internationally known for his 1995 investigative tour de force, The Laundrymen, in which he uncovered the true extent of global money laundering. The book reveals how hundreds of billions of dirty dollars are derived mainly from the drug trade, then reinvested throughout the world by otherwise legitimate businessmen, lawyers, accountants and bankers. Considered the definitive book on the subject, and now used in universities and law schools as a text, Business Week described it as "[a]n indictment of governments and banks".
A headline-maker in 14 countries around the world, Robinson scripted and hosted several television documentaries on the back of The Laundrymen, including one for the BBC, and another for Arte in France and Germany. Both have been shown in the United States.
In 1998, he published a sequel to The Laundrymen, titled The Merger - How Organized Crime is Taking Over The World. In it, Robinson revealed the shocking and disturbing lengths that transnational organized criminals go in order to build multi-national corporations; explained why organized crime is the major beneficiary of globalization; and illustrated how transnational organized criminals have become the most powerful special interest group on the planet.
Five years later he published yet another book in this series: The Sink, exposing crime, terrorism and dirty money in the offshore world.
Between 1986-1994, he published three major best-selling biographies: Yamani - The Inside Story, described by the Wall Street Journal as the best book ever written about the oil industry; Rainier & Grace, the only legitimate biography ever written about, and with the cooperation of, Monaco's sovereign family; and Bardot - Two Lives, also unique in that it was written with the cooperation of French icon, Brigitte Bardot.
His other non-fiction titles include: The Risk Takers (his first UK best seller) which highlighted the high-fliers of City finance, recounting their tales of money, ego and power; The Minus Millionaires, the off-beat sequel to The Risk Takers, in which he told stories about 'risk takers' who had lost fortunes; The End of the American Century, for which Robinson gained access to secret archives in the former Soviet Union to reveal the hidden agendas of the Cold War; The Hotel, stories gathered over five months as a fly on the wall in what is, arguably, the best hotel in the world; The Manipulators - A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy, exposing the marketing world's "hidden persuaders" 40 years after Vance Packard; and Prescription Games, an insider's view of the global pharmaceutical industry, where science and marketing are deliberately kept apart and where, all too often, profit dictates who lives and who dies.
In 2005, he wrote his first "as told to" with an old college friend, Joseph Petro. It is Petro's autobiography, Standing Next to History - An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service.
In 2007, Robinson ghostwrote Ronnie Wood's autobiography, documenting Wood's years as a rock star and member of the most famous band in the world, The Rolling Stones.
Two years later, in 2009, he published his third "as told to," written with the last of the great British tycoons, billionaire Gerald Ronson. It is titled, "Leading From The Front."
His treatise on fraud --- "There's A Sucker Born Every Minute - A Revelation Of Audacious Frauds, Scams, And Cons -- How To Spot Them, How To Stop Them" --- was published in 2009.
His latest book, a major non-fiction recounting of the demise of the most violent cocaine cartel in Colombia, is called "The Takedown."
Fiction
Jeffrey Robinson has also written five much-praised novels: Pietrov and Other Games ("A fast-paced, yet marvelously complex story" - Nelson DeMille); The Ginger Jar ("A gripping spy thriller" - Richard Condon); The Margin of the Bulls ("Disgracefully entertaining" - Daily Mail); The Monk's Disciples ("A warmly funny, richly human novel crammed with great characters and wonderful digressions. It's like going out to dinner with your most entertaining friend and ending up talking till dawn because the company's so good" - Val McDermid); and, currently under film option, A True and Perfect Knight ("An audaciously plotted comedy of errors with a far-from-heroic protagonist, and a comic thriller of considerable skill. The dialogue, too, is a pleasure, with wisecracks to equal Elmore Leonard at his most mordant" - Barry Forshaw).
[edit] Radio and television
A frequent guest on TV and radio on both sides of the Atlantic -appearances over the past few years include NBC News, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, BBC Breakfast, BBC Newsnight, ITN, Channel 4 News, CBC, CNBC, Sky News, BBC World, NBC's The Today Show and Bloomberg.
He continues to write for radio and television. He has scripted and hosted various series for BBC Radio, including one on American soap operas. He also wrote a much-acclaimed BBC Radio Drama of the Week, Rossum's Cyber Cafe.
His conceived and wrote the pilot for the British crime drama series, Tightrope, for Yorkshire Television. He recently completed the pilot episode for a new British series on financial crime called Follow The Money. Other television scripts include Sister Banjo and Notice of Claim. He has scripted a film version of his biography of Brigitte Bardot, simply called Bardot; and a made-for-television movie version of Standing Next To History, a dramatic re-telling of the special relationship between the president of the United States (Ronald Reagan) and his Secret Service agent (Joseph Petro), called Ronnie & Joe.
Robinson is a popular after-dinner speaker in Europe and North America, and a winner of the coveted Benedictine Award, as 1990 "After-Dinner Speaker of the Year".
Bibliography
Non-fiction
* The Takedown (2011)
* There's A Sucker Born Every Minute (2010)
* The Sink - Crime, Terror And Dirty Money In The Offshore World (2003)
* Prescription Games - Money, Ego And Power Inside The Global Pharmaceutical Industry (2001)
* The Merger - The Conglomeration Of International Organized Crime (1998)
* The Manipulators - A Conspiracy To Make Us Buy (1997)
* The Hotel - Upstairs, Downstairs In A Secret World (1996)
* The Laundrymen (1995)
* Bardot - Two Lives (1994)
* The End of the American Century (1992)
* The Risk Takers - Five Years On (1991)
* Rainier & Grace (1988)
* Yamani - The Inside Story (1987)
* Minus Millionaires (1986)
* The Risk Takers - Portraits Of Money, Ego And Power (1985)
* Teamwork - Comedy Teams in the Movies (1983)
* Bette Davis - A Filmography (1982)
As Told To:
* Gerald Ronson: Leading From The Front - My Story (2009)
* Ronnie Wood: Ronnie - The Autobiography" (Life As A Rolling
Stone) (2007)
* Joseph Petro: Standing Next to History - An Agent's Life Inside
the Secret Service (2005)
Fiction
* A True and Perfect Knight (1999)
* The Monk's Disciples (1997)
* The Margin of the Bulls (1995)
* The Ginger Jar (1986)
* Pietrov and Other Games (1985)
Screenplays, teleplays and radio plays
* The Wake (2008)
* I Je t'Aime You (2008)
* Other Arrangements (2007)
* The Confession (2007)
* Notice of Claim (2005)
* Bardot (2005)
* Sister Banjo (2002)
* Tightrope (2002)
* Rossum's Cyber Café (2000)
* Les Blanchisseurs (1998)
* The Laundrymen (1997)
Journalism and short stories
More than 700 of his published articles and short stories have appeared in major periodicals. Newspaper journalism, specifically for the period 1970-1983 includes 250 feature articles, notably for The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner.
Jeffrey Robinson on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22jeffrey+robinson%22&search_type=&aq=f
Jeffrey Robinson's official website: http://www.jeffreyrobinson.com
Official website: http://www.jeffreyrobinson.com
Jeffrey Robinson (born 1945) is a native New Yorker who lived in Europe from 1970-2007. The international bestselling author of 25 books, Robinson is a recognized expert on organized crime, fraud and money laundering, and has been labeled, by the British Bankers' Association, "the world's most important financial crime journalist."
Contents
* 1 Background
* 2 Non-fiction
* 3 Fiction
* 4 Radio and television
* 5 Bibliography
* 6 Non-fiction
* 7 Fiction
* 8 Screenplays, teleplays and radio plays
* 9 Journalism and short stories
* 10 Jeffrey Robinson on You Tube
* 11 Website
Background
Born in Long Beach, Robinson is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia (1967). While still at school, he wrote for television and radio, including a popular weekly children's show and was on the writing staff of The Mike Douglas Show, a nationally televised daily talk show. He continued working in the media during his four year stint as an officer in the United States Air Force. Charged with running a press and public relations office for five generals at the height of the Vietnam War, he hosted a weekly talk show, scripted and directed several film projects, wrote short stories for national magazines and moonlighted as a disc jockey on local radio.
When his military obligation was completed at the end of 1970, he took up residence in a small village in the south of France. Using that as his base, he vagabonded around the world, writing articles and short stories for leading North American and British periodicals. His magazine credits include Playboy, McCalls, Barron's, Gourmet, True, Ambassador, Mademoiselle, Reader's Digest and TV Guide; his newspaper credits include The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner, The Christian Science Monitor and The International Herald Tribune (for which he was a major contributor of features during the 1970s). In Britain his feature journalism has appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and the Mail on Sunday, among others.
He moved to the UK in 1982, with more than 600 published stories and articles to his credit, to concentrate on writing books. In 2007, he returned to New York and now divides his time between the US and the UK.
[edit] Non-fiction
Robinson is internationally known for his 1995 investigative tour de force, The Laundrymen, in which he uncovered the true extent of global money laundering. The book reveals how hundreds of billions of dirty dollars are derived mainly from the drug trade, then reinvested throughout the world by otherwise legitimate businessmen, lawyers, accountants and bankers. Considered the definitive book on the subject, and now used in universities and law schools as a text, Business Week described it as "[a]n indictment of governments and banks".
A headline-maker in 14 countries around the world, Robinson scripted and hosted several television documentaries on the back of The Laundrymen, including one for the BBC, and another for Arte in France and Germany. Both have been shown in the United States.
In 1998, he published a sequel to The Laundrymen, titled The Merger - How Organized Crime is Taking Over The World. In it, Robinson revealed the shocking and disturbing lengths that transnational organized criminals go in order to build multi-national corporations; explained why organized crime is the major beneficiary of globalization; and illustrated how transnational organized criminals have become the most powerful special interest group on the planet.
Five years later he published yet another book in this series: The Sink, exposing crime, terrorism and dirty money in the offshore world.
Between 1986-1994, he published three major best-selling biographies: Yamani - The Inside Story, described by the Wall Street Journal as the best book ever written about the oil industry; Rainier & Grace, the only legitimate biography ever written about, and with the cooperation of, Monaco's sovereign family; and Bardot - Two Lives, also unique in that it was written with the cooperation of French icon, Brigitte Bardot.
His other non-fiction titles include: The Risk Takers (his first UK best seller) which highlighted the high-fliers of City finance, recounting their tales of money, ego and power; The Minus Millionaires, the off-beat sequel to The Risk Takers, in which he told stories about 'risk takers' who had lost fortunes; The End of the American Century, for which Robinson gained access to secret archives in the former Soviet Union to reveal the hidden agendas of the Cold War; The Hotel, stories gathered over five months as a fly on the wall in what is, arguably, the best hotel in the world; The Manipulators - A Conspiracy to Make Us Buy, exposing the marketing world's "hidden persuaders" 40 years after Vance Packard; and Prescription Games, an insider's view of the global pharmaceutical industry, where science and marketing are deliberately kept apart and where, all too often, profit dictates who lives and who dies.
In 2005, he wrote his first "as told to" with an old college friend, Joseph Petro. It is Petro's autobiography, Standing Next to History - An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service.
In 2007, Robinson ghostwrote Ronnie Wood's autobiography, documenting Wood's years as a rock star and member of the most famous band in the world, The Rolling Stones.
Two years later, in 2009, he published his third "as told to," written with the last of the great British tycoons, billionaire Gerald Ronson. It is titled, "Leading From The Front."
His treatise on fraud --- "There's A Sucker Born Every Minute - A Revelation Of Audacious Frauds, Scams, And Cons -- How To Spot Them, How To Stop Them" --- was published in 2009.
His latest book, a major non-fiction recounting of the demise of the most violent cocaine cartel in Colombia, is called "The Takedown."
Fiction
Jeffrey Robinson has also written five much-praised novels: Pietrov and Other Games ("A fast-paced, yet marvelously complex story" - Nelson DeMille); The Ginger Jar ("A gripping spy thriller" - Richard Condon); The Margin of the Bulls ("Disgracefully entertaining" - Daily Mail); The Monk's Disciples ("A warmly funny, richly human novel crammed with great characters and wonderful digressions. It's like going out to dinner with your most entertaining friend and ending up talking till dawn because the company's so good" - Val McDermid); and, currently under film option, A True and Perfect Knight ("An audaciously plotted comedy of errors with a far-from-heroic protagonist, and a comic thriller of considerable skill. The dialogue, too, is a pleasure, with wisecracks to equal Elmore Leonard at his most mordant" - Barry Forshaw).
[edit] Radio and television
A frequent guest on TV and radio on both sides of the Atlantic -appearances over the past few years include NBC News, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, BBC Breakfast, BBC Newsnight, ITN, Channel 4 News, CBC, CNBC, Sky News, BBC World, NBC's The Today Show and Bloomberg.
He continues to write for radio and television. He has scripted and hosted various series for BBC Radio, including one on American soap operas. He also wrote a much-acclaimed BBC Radio Drama of the Week, Rossum's Cyber Cafe.
His conceived and wrote the pilot for the British crime drama series, Tightrope, for Yorkshire Television. He recently completed the pilot episode for a new British series on financial crime called Follow The Money. Other television scripts include Sister Banjo and Notice of Claim. He has scripted a film version of his biography of Brigitte Bardot, simply called Bardot; and a made-for-television movie version of Standing Next To History, a dramatic re-telling of the special relationship between the president of the United States (Ronald Reagan) and his Secret Service agent (Joseph Petro), called Ronnie & Joe.
Robinson is a popular after-dinner speaker in Europe and North America, and a winner of the coveted Benedictine Award, as 1990 "After-Dinner Speaker of the Year".
Bibliography
Non-fiction
* The Takedown (2011)
* There's A Sucker Born Every Minute (2010)
* The Sink - Crime, Terror And Dirty Money In The Offshore World (2003)
* Prescription Games - Money, Ego And Power Inside The Global Pharmaceutical Industry (2001)
* The Merger - The Conglomeration Of International Organized Crime (1998)
* The Manipulators - A Conspiracy To Make Us Buy (1997)
* The Hotel - Upstairs, Downstairs In A Secret World (1996)
* The Laundrymen (1995)
* Bardot - Two Lives (1994)
* The End of the American Century (1992)
* The Risk Takers - Five Years On (1991)
* Rainier & Grace (1988)
* Yamani - The Inside Story (1987)
* Minus Millionaires (1986)
* The Risk Takers - Portraits Of Money, Ego And Power (1985)
* Teamwork - Comedy Teams in the Movies (1983)
* Bette Davis - A Filmography (1982)
As Told To:
* Gerald Ronson: Leading From The Front - My Story (2009)
* Ronnie Wood: Ronnie - The Autobiography" (Life As A Rolling
Stone) (2007)
* Joseph Petro: Standing Next to History - An Agent's Life Inside
the Secret Service (2005)
Fiction
* A True and Perfect Knight (1999)
* The Monk's Disciples (1997)
* The Margin of the Bulls (1995)
* The Ginger Jar (1986)
* Pietrov and Other Games (1985)
Screenplays, teleplays and radio plays
* The Wake (2008)
* I Je t'Aime You (2008)
* Other Arrangements (2007)
* The Confession (2007)
* Notice of Claim (2005)
* Bardot (2005)
* Sister Banjo (2002)
* Tightrope (2002)
* Rossum's Cyber Café (2000)
* Les Blanchisseurs (1998)
* The Laundrymen (1997)
Journalism and short stories
More than 700 of his published articles and short stories have appeared in major periodicals. Newspaper journalism, specifically for the period 1970-1983 includes 250 feature articles, notably for The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner.
Jeffrey Robinson on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22jeffrey+robinson%22&search_type=&aq=f
Jeffrey Robinson's official website: http://www.jeffreyrobinson.com
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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how to hide your money and (almost) get away with it...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Laundrymen: Money Laundering the World's Third Largest Business (Hardcover)
This is a review of the updated 1998 edition of this book. This book is a very interesting read on world crime. The book details, quite correctly I imagine, the fact that the motivation behind most organised crime is one thing - MONEY!The best way to hit back at organised crime is confiscate the proceeds and benifits of crime, money and assets. Unfortuntley, the criminals today are a sophisticated (at the top) as the people chasing them. There are also many countries, who lacking other resources fall back on "confidental" financial services as a way to make a living. In many ways it's hard to blame these smaller countries and economies going into the money laundring business as globalisation and the corporate greed of the 1st world economies marginalise "traditional" economies and communities. It's a fact of life that people will make money any way they can - and if you are desperate enough you'll take the illegal or semi-illegal route. This book takes you into the murky world of swiss banking - and it's NOT like the movies. Numbered bank accounts are a thing of the past. How the columbians got shot in the foot when they set up the mexican drug trade in a fit of diversification. It also details how while crime has gone global in a big way, law enforcement has only done so sparodically, and not much will change until international co-operation is better organised. This book just goes to prove that you can do a lot with banks if you are willing to pay the fees, know the world's tax havens (and their limitations) - and that cash is not always king (because then you need to go through the bother of washing it). An illuminating and frightening book, which I'm sure is just the tip of the iceberg.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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entertaining but biased,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Laundrymen: Money Laundering the World's Third Largest Business (Hardcover)
A fun book to read, although I wondered if someone in the DEA paid the author to write it! In Robinson's view of the world, the US government is always right. US government agents wear white hats, businessmen and their lawyers and accountants and bankers wear black hats. Robinson never questions the motives of the DEA/FBI/IRS officials whom he uses as information sources. He never questions the wisdom of the US war on drugs; indeed, he seems keen on expanding this war by enlisting financial intermediaries as government proxies. He ignores the likely impact of currency and financial controls on economic growth and personal liberty. He appears to have spent little time in the non-OECD world, where government corruption is the rule and where honest citizens have every reason to use cash and to hide their savings "offshore". In short: good entertainment value, and slick PR for Uncle Sam's drug warriors, but not an authoritative book by any means.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Money Madness!,
By L.J. Morgan (Little Rock, Arkansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Laundrymen (Paperback)
Jeffrey Robinson knows more about money than any freelance writer has a right to! I've read Robinson's fiction, and this reads like a novel. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your relationship to laundered money), this is a true account of the way money makes the world go round (and vice versa). An amazing accomplishment.
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