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BSA: Detect and Reporting Illicit Activity Related to Illegal Aliens

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an Advisory urging financial institutions to be vigilant against risks presented by the unlawful employment of illegal aliens.
OnDemand
DATE

Recorded Tuesday,
August 11, 2026

INSTRUCTOR

Leslie NicelyDeborah Crawford

DURATION

1 Hour 30m

FORMAT

Webinar

$299.00 or 1 Token

Includes: 30 Days OnDemand Playback, Presenter Materials and Handouts

  • BSA
  • Compliance
  • Reporting
  • Bank Secrecy Act Officer/BSA Specialist
  • Branch Manager
  • Compliance Officer
  • Security Officer
  • Senior Management
  • Training Manager
  • Trainer

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By hiring, concealing, and exploiting non-work authorized populations, employers can gain an unfair advantage over legitimate U.S. businesses, depress wages, facilitate identity theft of Americans, and steal tax revenue meant for government benefit programs. Schemes to pay unlawful workers often rely upon access to the U.S. financial system, including U.S. banks.

Unlawfully obtained wages can be leveraged to facilitate the financing of transnational criminal organizations—several of which have been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations—and their global criminal enterprises, including drug trafficking, human trafficking, and other illicit activity in the United States

Learn what you need to know and do.

What You'll Learn

Highlights:

  • Use of ITINS in enhanced due diligence
  • Filing of SARS
  • Case Studies
  • Detecting Red flags such as:
  • Unlawful aliens can illicitly obtain Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to gain unlawful employment and wages, employer- and government-provided health care benefits in the United States, and access to financial services.
  • Learn how complicit employers can also use payroll tax fraud schemes to conceal their hiring of low-wage unlawful alien workers, as well as to evade taxes and workers’ compensation benefits.
  • How complicit labor brokers may use a foreign identity document—such as a foreign passport—or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to open the account for the shell company at a bank.

Who Should Attend

BSA/AML Officers, Staff, Compliance and Training.
Leslie Nicely

Instructor Bio

Leslie Nicely, Senior Vice President for Gettechnical Inc. brings with her a wealth of practical banking experience. Her 30+ years include various positions with a local community bank including teller, teller supervisor, new accounts, lending, Branch Administration Officer, BSA/AML Officer and Security Officer and more. She graduated from the Virginia Bankers Association School of Bank Management. Her experience includes management, operations, lending compliance, fraud management, training, security and customer service. Her down-to-earth approach to training and her technical expertise makes her a real asset to our industry.

Deborah Crawford

Instructor Bio

Deborah Crawford is the President of Gettechnical Inc., a Florida based training company. She specializes in the deposit side of the financial institution and is an instructor on IRAs, BSA, Deposit Regulations and opening account procedures. She was formerly with Hibernia National Bank (now Capital One) and has bachelor's and master's degrees from Louisiana State University. She has 35+ years of combined teaching and banking experience.

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