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Money Laundering, BSA & Financial Investigative Training

Special Agent Brian L. Berntson provided financial investigative, money laundering and BSA training to U.S. Fish & Wildlife, Division of Law Enforcement, Special Agents, at their nationwide in-service training at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC May 2013)

Through his vast domestic and international money laundering and BSA investigative experience, and his expertise as a money laundering expert witness for the IRS Criminal Investigation, Brian L. Berntson has developed the course curriculum for a money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and financial investigative training course which provides the following:
  • A brief history of the money laundering statutes, BSA regulations, relevant definitions within the statutes and regulations;
  • Applications of the money laundering statutes and BSA regulations, financial investigative techniques which provides the investigator/compliance personnel with a pragmatic approach to exploiting financial information in any type of investigation;
  • Insight into the current money laundering trends and provides real case scenarios that provides insight into the methodologies employed by the criminal element to "conceal the true source, nature, ownership and control" of their illicit funds;
  • Provides a realistic fact pattern to the students so they can apply the appropriate financial investigative techniques to maximize the results of their investigation;
  • The methods to organize and analyze financial information and provides insight into the preparing simplistic summaries and demonstrative exhibits to assist in the analysis and presentation of the information to management, court hearings and trials;
  • Both domestic and international financial investigative techniques;
  • How to maximize the seizure of assets in a money laundering/BSA investigation.

During his tenure as an IRS-CI Special Agent Brian L. Berntson has provided money laundering, BSA, and financial investigative techniques training on seventeen separate occasions to the following agencies:  
  • United States Secret Service
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Drug Enforcement Administration
  • United States Attorney's Offices
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Law Enforcement Division
  • Department of Justice, National Advocacy Center (NAC) Advanced Money Laundering Course
  • Money Laundering Alert's International Money Laundering Conference-"Following the money in a Terrorist Financing Case"
  • IRS CI Money Laundering Expert Witness Training at the NAC
  • Illinois Law Enforcement Training Center
  • State of Iowa Law Enforcement Academy
  • Rock Island Arsenal Counter-Terrorism Working Group
  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
  • Western Illinois University-Law Enforcement Students
  • Iowa Land Title Association members
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents and State game enforcement officers for Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin
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August 10, 2012, money laundering and financial investigative training, James J. Rowley Training Center, Beltsville Maryland, Left to right, Bruce Traina, Special Agent, IRS-CI, Analyst Global Financial Crimes, Lora "L.A." Jones, Special Agent, Secret Service, Director Money Laundering Section, Prasanth Kurian, Special Agent, Secret Service, Peter Kacarab, Special Agent, IRS-CI, Money Laundering Expert Witness, and Brian L. Berntson, Special Agent, IRS-CI, Money Laundering Expert Witness.
Below are a sample of letters of commendation received by Special Agent Brian L. Berntson for his money laundering, BSA, and financial investigative technique training courses. 


SECRET SERVICE LETTER
CONSPIRACY COURSE
IRS-CI MLEW TRAINING
NAC LETTER
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Minnesota Alumnus/Swimming
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CAMS CERTIFIED
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USN
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VETERAN OWNED/ARMY AWARDS
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MEMBER 2013
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