Tag:financial
Toronto Dominion Bank – Hey Criminals, Bank Here!
Toronto Dominion Bank, known as TD Bank, is one of the largest banks in the United States. In early October of this year, TD Bank agreed to pay almost $2 billion in penalties for its involvement in money laundering practices and “violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).” Over the span of a decade, TD Bank failed to stop hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drug money from flowing through its system and became a common bank for criminal enterprises to use. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland discussed how TD Bank made “its services convenient for criminals” when they decided to maximize their profit margins over complying with the law.
Charitable Solicitation: Do Threatened Penalties and Sanctions Ever Actually Reach the Non-Profit Organizations Misappropriating Funds?
In order to operate, non-profit organizations rely heavily on the ability to fundraise. The government leaves the regulation of that “charitable solicitation” to individual states, with most requiring formal registration to engage in such activities. With firms vying for organizations’ business to hire consultants to obtain funds, and ethics and oversight firms highlighting the careful approaches that must be utilized to appropriately raise funds for non-profit operations, charitable organizations may find themselves confused and threatened in the space between needing charitable solicitation to survive and maintaining regulatory compliance to engage in the activity itself. While the threats of penalties and sanctions are large and imposing, it appears that few organizations ever face their true weight. Charitable organizations must, of course, comply with each state of registration, but is the fear instilled equal to the reality of the consequences of non-compliance?