FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: |
CONTACT: Jesse Jacobs, Rianna Brown |
Tuesday, September 25, 2001 |
202-224-4524 |
COMMITTEE HEARING ON MONEY LAUNDERING, FUNDING OF
TERRORIST ACTIVITIES - NEW STARTING TIME
****HEARING TO BEGIN AT 9:00 A.M.****
ADDS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WITNESS
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, has announced that the full Committee will begin its hearing on the growing problem of domestic and international money laundering at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will provide an opportunity for the Bush Administration to discuss its National Money Laundering Strategy for 2001, and will also highlight the funding of terrorist activities as a result of money laundering actions.
The hearing will be held:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2001
9:00 A.M.
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Scheduled to appear are:
- The Honorable Carl Levin (D-MI);
- The Honorable John F. Kerry (D-MA);
- The Honorable Charles Grassley (R-IA);
- The Honorable John LaFalce (D-NY);
- The Honorable Marge Roukema (R-NJ);
- The Honorable Jimmy Gurule, Under Secretary for Enforcement, Department of the Treasury;
- The Honorable Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division;
- Mr. Stuart Eizenstat, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury;
- Mr. Alvin James, a former Special Agent with the IRS Criminal Investigation Division and former
Senior Money Laundering Advisor to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen); and
- Mr. William Wechsler, former Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for money laundering matters.
- Mr. Jonathan Winer, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Law Enforcement
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