139: John Cassara on China’s Criminal Economy

The One CA Podcast

Today, we welcome John Cassara.

John started his career as a CIA covert operations officer, then moved to the US Treasury as a special agent, where he worked in counter-terrorism and financial intelligence. During that time, he was also detailed to the State Department's INL or International Narcotics and Law Enforcement to support counter-terrorism finance and anti-money laundering. John also worked at US Customs on counter illicit trade and illicit arms smuggling.

John is also a board member of Global Financial Integrity and the Coalition against Illicit Economies and a guest instructor at George Mason University for the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center.

Additionally, John Cassara published the book: Specified Unlawful Activities in China's illicit economy.

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Links:

Book: Specified Unlawful Activities: https://www.amazon.com/China-Specified-Activities-Transnational-Laundering/dp/B0BW2S2SKN

John Cassara bio: http://www.johncassara.com/

CIA covert operations officer program: https://www.cia.gov/stories/intelligence-operations/

US Treasury as a special agent program: https://home.treasury.gov/about/offices/terrorism-and-financial-intelligence

State Department's INL or International Narcotics and Law Enforcement: https://www.state.gov/about-us-bureau-of-international-narcotics-and-law-enforcement-affairs/

US Customs, counter illicit trade and illicit arms smuggling program: https://www.cbp.gov/about

Global Financial Integrity: https://gfintegrity.org/

Coalition against Illicit Economies: https://icaie.com/

George Mason University for the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center: https://traccc.gmu.edu/

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