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, [...]

Airlines getting high on power of Patriot Act

Tamera Jo Freeman lost custody of her children after an incident on a Frontier Airlines flight. “A woman spanking her child is not as great a threat to aviation as members of Al Qaeda with box cutters,” says one expert.

She also spent three months in prison for the incident, which clearly presented no real [...]