p>Attorney Advisors in the MNF Policy Unit: - Provide legal advice and guidance regarding implementing national and international law, policy initiatives, guidance, regulations, and strategies on asset forfeiture, narcotics, and money laundering-related issues, to ensure that the Department has the necessary anti-money-laundering, asset forfeiture, and other law enforcement tools to combat organized criminal groups and other illicit actors, take the profit out of crime, and compensate victims-while ensuring respect for the rule of law;
- Represent MNF, the Criminal Division, and the Department in dealings with the national money laundering and asset recovery community; regulatory community; inter-agency partners; federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and regulators; and international law enforcement and policy components; as well as in outreach to the private sector;
- Monitor and track asset forfeiture, narcotics, money laundering, and other criminal and civil law-enforcement-related legislative and regulatory developments; and draft, review, and provide technical assistance on legislative proposals, statutory and other reports, regulations, policy documents, briefings, and other materials;
- Respond to agency correspondence, Congressional inquiries and GAO reviews; and.
The Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section pursues criminal prosecutions and criminal and civil asset recovery actions involving: financial facilitators who conceal profits for criminals; financial institutions and their officers and employees who violate money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and sanctions laws; international money launderers who support transnational organized crime; and the top command and control of international drug trafficking organizations.