Richard May Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Finalist
Director, Office of Special Measures
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Department of the Treasury
Vienna, Virginia
Richard May has turned the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s resources toward disrupting major international criminal and terrorist organizations’ monetary flow. He began using “Geographic Targeting Orders” to order businesses in certain locations where money laundering is common to follow strict reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
The aim of these orders is to root out “corrupt foreign officials or transnational criminals” who may be “using premium U.S. real estate to secretly invest millions in dirty money,” said FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery. “With each iteration of a geographic targeting order, Richard takes on a bigger problem in a more unique way and with greater impact.”