Fifteen real, landmark U.S. money-laundering cases in real estate, each broken down using the exact methodology federal prosecutors and FinCEN analysts apply when building a case — starting with the well-known Beverly Hills anonymous LLC purchase.
Working through these fifteen cases, professionals learn to recognize placement, layering, and integration exactly as they appear in real property transactions, anchored throughout to the Bank Secrecy Act, RESPA, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — the three statutory frameworks that recur across nearly every case in the set.
Every case walks through the same structure: the facts, the red flags that were present and often missed, the beneficial-ownership failure at the center of the scheme, the eventual court outcome, and the REALGUARD best-practice fix that would have caught it earlier. Attorneys and title companies in particular learn, case by case, how they became unknowing chokepoints inside laundering schemes they had no intention of being part of.
The module's value is in the repetition: fifteen real cases, one consistent analytical framework applied to each, and the tools to apply that same framework immediately to a transaction on your own desk.