Terrorism and the Financial Sector: Are the Right Prosecutorial Tools Being Used?

Stefan D. Cassella, US Dept of Justice

Abstract

The article suggests that the statutes enacted to deal specifically with terrorist financing are not always the most appropriate vehicles either for bringing criminal charges or recovering assets under the forfeiture laws, but that most traditional and generic statutes, such as those dealing with money laundering, bulk cash smuggling and currency reporting violations might be more effective in most cases.