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| U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
| Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations |
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| Title: Failure to Identify Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement |
| Date: 11/14/06 |
| Time (EST): 2:30 PM |
| Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342 |
| The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ hearing will examine the issue of states routinely incorporating hundreds of thousands of new, non-publicly traded companies in the United States each year without obtaining the identity of the corporate owners, thereby impeding law enforcement investigations into persons misusing U.S. shell corporations for money laundering, tax evasion, terrorist financing, or other crimes. The hearing will feature the April 2006 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report prepared at the Subcommittee’s request, "Company Formations: Minimal Ownership Information Is Collected and Available."
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Panel 1
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STUART G. NASH
, Associate Deputy Attorney General & Director, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
, U. S. Department of Justice
, Washington, D.C. |
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K. STEVEN BURGESS
, Director of Examinations, Small Business/Self Employed Division
, Internal Revenue Service
, Washington, D.C. |
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YVONNE JONES
, Director, Financial Markets & Community Investment Team
, U.S. Government Accountability Office
, Washington, D.C. |
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JAMAL EL-HINDI
, Associate Director for Regulatory Policy and Programs
, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
, Vienna, Virginia |
Panel 2
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RICHARD J. GEISENBERGER
, Assistant Secretary of State
, State of Delaware
, Dover, Delaware |
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SCOTT W. ANDERSON
, Deputy Secretary of State for Commercial Recordings
, Office of the Secretary of State, State of Nevada
, Carson City, Nevada |
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LAURIE FLYNN
, Chief Legal Counsel
, Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
, Boston, Massachusetts |
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