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Money Laundering Case Puts Spotlight on Law Firms' Use of Trust Accounts

A $3.5 billion asset forfeiture case that the DOJ brought in July grabbed the public's attention for the alleged purchases involved. But prosecutors also claim that prominent law firms used lawyer trust accounts to hold huge sums allegedly pilfered from the government of Malaysia and laundered through U.S. institutions.

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A $3.5 billion asset forfeiture case that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought in July grabbed the public’s attention for the alleged purchases involved: a luxury jet, a Beverly Hills mansion, Las Vegas casino junkets and a stake in the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Wolf of Wall Street. See “Big Law Firms Play Cameos in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Forfeiture Case,” Law.com, http://bit.ly/2bAw3To.

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