By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) says in a report that Chinese money laundering networks (CMLNs) moved over $312 Billion in suspicious transactions through U.S. financial institutions, including banks, between 2020 and 2024. The networks act as a critical bridge between Mexican...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) of the U.S. Treasury, has conducted an investigation that has unveiled over $9 billion of potential Iranian shadow banking activity that occurred through U.S. correspondent accounts in 2024, according to the agency analysis from U.S....

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. Pakistan just signed a Memorandum of understanding with China's Electronics Technology Group Corporation to collaborate on research, development and innovation in quantum technologies. Both China and Pakistan stand to gain from such collaboration as Quantum computing is considered the most significant upcoming technology, surpassing...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. Our General Service Administration (GSA) manages and supports federal government functions including procuring products and services to federal agencies including our Department of Defense and our armed forces. Numerous government and industry reports in 2024-2025 have warned that U.S. defense supply chains, including...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. With our nations focus on stopping the drug cartels from transporting drugs into the United States, banks that knowingly do business with drug cartels can face legal proceedings, as allowing the cartels to launder their money is illegal. In addition whistleblowers working in banks...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. Met with China's total restriction on the sale of rare earth minerals to the United States, the U.S. has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies. The Department of Energy will take a five per cent equity stake in the miner, which is...

By Jeffrey Newman Esq. This blog follows one I wrote yesterday about Canada's rich mineral deposits and the potential benefits to us and Canada if we invested in mining and processing the rare earth minerals there, since China has cut us off from their rare earth minerals. One of...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. Today, the Chinese government announced that it was escalating controls of exports of rare earth metals to the United States. Also starting Nov. 8 it is restricting all kinds of equipnment needed to manufacture batteries for electric cars. The new rules are expected to...

By Jeffrey A. Newman Esq. In a first of its kind dismissal, a U.S. diplomat was fired over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Previously the State Department had imposed a ban on all American government...

By Jeffrey Newman Esq. According to recent news articles and investigations, Huawei Technologies, China's major technology company that makes telecommunications infrastructures, used advanced components from TSMC, Taiwan's semiconductor maker. These were the findings of Techlnsights, an Ottawa based research firm which discovered the parts during teardowns. It reveals that...