Financial Crime & AML Expert Witness
Expert Witness for Complex Financial Crimes
Alison K. Jimenez provides expert witness and litigation consulting services for matters involving financial crime, money laundering, AML, economic cybercrime, cryptocurrency crime, securities fraud, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, and human trafficking.
With experience spanning financial services, securities regulation, AML, financial crime, and cybercrime, Alison brings financial, regulatory, and technological expertise to complex legal matters.
Areas of Expertise
Money Laundering & AML
A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) since 2007, Alison provides expert analysis of:
- AML programs and controls
- KYC and customer due diligence
- Transaction monitoring and SARs
- AML risk assessments
- Financial crime red flags and typologies
- Correspondent banking
- Laundering through P2P apps, cryptocurrency, and gift cards
- Money mules and drop accounts
She can assess whether AML controls, transaction monitoring, and anti-financial crime processes complied with regulatory requirements and industry practices.
Economic Cybercrime
Alison understands how criminals exploit technology to commit economic cybercrimes.
Alison provides expertise involving:
- Business Email Compromise (BEC)
- Romance, government impersonation, and tech-support scams
- Cryptocurrency hacks, fraud, and scams
- Account takeover
- Electronic payment fraud and EFTA matters
- Identity theft and identity verification schemes
- Malware, infostealers, and remote-access-enabled crime
She can explain how technology and electronic payments were used to facilitate fraud, move funds, or cause economic harm.
Human Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Alison provides expertise concerning the financial aspects of human trafficking, sex trafficking, financial sextortion, commercial CSAM-related matters, and Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) issues. Alison advised the U.S. State Department on the United Nations resolution to counter financial sextortion of minors.
She can analyze the monetization, movement, concealment, and laundering of proceeds associated with trafficking and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation.
Terrorist Financing & Illicit Finance
Alison provides expertise involving terrorist financing, threat finance, sanctions evasion, illicit financial networks, transnational criminal organizations, and Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) / Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) matters.
She has participated in the U.S. Department of Defense- Counter Threat Finance Working Group and has specialized training in terrorist financing analysis and transnational organized crime.
Securities Fraud
Alison provides expert analysis involving:
- Securities fraud
- Investment fraud
- Ponzi schemes
- Market manipulation
- Securities-related damages and quantitative analysis
Her financial services and securities regulatory experience provides insight into industry practices and regulatory expectations.
Why Engage Alison as a Financial Crime / Money Laundering Expert Witness?
Complex financial crime cases can involve thousands of transactions, sophisticated financial structures, emerging technologies, and competing explanations for the movement of money.
Alison provides independent analysis in clear terms to help attorneys, courts, arbitrators, and regulators understand the financial and technological dimensions of a case.
She can help explain:
- How the alleged financial crime occurred
- How financial systems or technology were exploited
- Whether relevant AML controls were appropriate
- What financial crime red flags were present
- How funds or digital assets were moved or concealed
Expert Witness Experience
Alison has testified as an expert witness in more than 40 legal proceedings, including federal and state courts, FINRA proceedings, domestic and international arbitrations, criminal matters, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Her expertise has been sought by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.
She has presented on AML, financial crime, cybercrime, cryptocurrency, terrorist financing, and illicit finance to organizations including the United Nations, INTERPOL, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Europol.
Contact a Financial Crime & AML Expert Witness | Money Laundering Expert
If you need an AML expert witness, money laundering expert, financial crime expert, cryptocurrency expert, or terrorist financing expert, contact Alison Jimenez to discuss your matter.