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Mr. Fanusie is director of analysis and Mr. Heid is a recent research intern at the FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance.
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was on a terror watch list. So was Larossi Abballa, who stabbed a police officer and his wife on Monday in a suburb of Paris.
Current federal law does not disqualify those on the government’s terrorist watchlist from purchasing a gun from a licensed gun dealer. Senate Democrats, who are hoping to resurrect legislation defeated by Republicans last year to address the so-called terror gap in federal gun laws, began a filibuster on Wednesday to pressure Republicans on the issue.
A Danish appeals court has given conditional jail sentences of four and five years to two men who had been found guilty of terror financing for providing millions to a Kurdish separatist group.
Lebanese banks said on Monday that a bombing outside the headquarters of one of the country's biggest banks had targeted the entire sector, an attack seen as a dangerous escalation of a crisis over a U.S. law targeting the finances of the Shi'ite group Hezbollah.
The drug that killed Prince has become a favorite of Mexican cartels because it is extremely potent, popular in the United States — and immensely profitable, American officials say.
For years, Fernando Lopez’s storefront money-transfer business in Atlantic City was a place where local residents could wire money to family and friends abroad. But that business, Interamericana Express, which handled a lot of transmittals to Mexico, is dwindling as banks and regulators take a stricter view of cross-border money transfers.
In May 2007, during a global crackdown on offshore tax havens, an obscure nonprofit lobbying group in Northern Virginia sent a fundraising pitch to a law firm in one of the biggest tax havens in the world — Panama.
The F.B.I. has significantly increased its use of stings in terrorism cases, employing agents and informants to pose as jihadists, bomb makers, gun dealers or online “friends” in hundreds of investigations into Americans suspected of supporting the Islamic State, records and interviews show.
The text message to Ukraine’s minister of economy and trade was as unwelcome as it was unexpected. The sender, a stranger, wrote that he wanted to be the new deputy minister.