Publications

Creating Clarity Out of Chaos (PDF)
Excerpt: Chaos is a common term used to represent extreme confusion, disorder, and disarray. Much of the intelligence production process used throughout law enforcement, the intelligence community, and other investigative organizations is based on accessing, combining, analyzing, and reporting on data that comes from multiple sources in different formats spanning across many systems. The chaos introduced from variations in content, formats, spellings, errors, and other incompatibilities makes it very difficult to understand and detect the patterns in the data. ...

Anatomy of a Financial Crime (PDF)
Each day millions of financial transactions occur throughout our banking and finance systems. Whether people are writing checks, depositing cash, wiring money, or using ATM machines, their transactions are logged and recorded. All major banks, thrifts, savings & loans, credit unions and financial institutions are required to have certain protocols, reviews, and detection systems in place for exposing suspicious behaviors. The example depicted in this paper provides the realistic background and description of a single money laundering scenario. ...