Transnational Crime, Money Laundering and "Pirate" Banking: Tales From The Global Underground Economy

One of the growing and unheralded problems affecting the ability of the United States to mount a battle against terrorism and under-gird its efforts to stabilize its own domestic and international finances is the so-called global underground economy. Within this vast hidden enclave, billions of dollars flow in unaccountable way to Al Qaeda terrorists, Iraqi guerrilla fighters, rebel gangs, arms dealers, organized crime cartels, drug lords and rogue states. The two panelists, experts in the by-ways and techniques of the operators in this alternative universe, will discuss the results of their first-hand investigations into money laundering, drug trafficking, corruption and other growing sectors of this hidden and increasingly dangerous conspiracy that threatens the security of democratic states.

Participants

• James S. Henry
  Investigative Journalist, Editor, Submergingmarkets.com; and author of the forthcoming, The Pirate Bankers: More Tales from the Global Underground Economy


• Robert A. Levinson
  Managing Director, SafirRosetti; Former Special Agent, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation


• Steven C. Clemons
  Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation