FBI raids three hedge funds

Wall Street, on a good day

Two of the funds have links to biggie Steve Cohen’s monster SAC hedge fund and many assume he is a primary target.

Maybe the corruption and ooze of slime around Wall Street and Greenwich CT has finally become so intolerable that the feds really are acting.

But only [...]

Hedge funds, money laundering, and their exemption from the Patriot Act

Business Week. July 2006. Little if anything has changed since this was written. (Emphasis added)

When drug runners and terrorists want to park illicit cash, there may be no better haven than hedge funds. Despite tough new anti-money laundering standards put out by U.S. regulators for banks, mutual fund companies, insurers, and money transmitters, [...]