ABSTRACT

Forfeiture is really the driving force behind money laundering today. You have to look at it from the crooks’ perspective: They are hardly inclined to just give away all that money they worked so hard to steal in the ˆrst place. Their answer is to devise schemes to protect it from seizure and forfeiture. Law enforcement, on the other hand, has been getting better at ˆnding and seizing, forcing the criminals to become more sophisticated in response. It is a vicious cycle-one that probably will not end anytime soon.