FBI, PHILADELPHIA DIVISION, conducts investigations into organized crime, white-collar crime, financial crime, fraud against the government, and other violations of federal statutes. Money-laundering is a frequent part of this.
THE PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT is a participant in the Violent Crimes/Fugitive Task Force, which the U.S. Marshals Service runs in the so-called Philadelphia/Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. The various agencies in the effort seek to apprehend fugitives by focusing on money-laundering cases and drug-related homicides and other violence within the target area.
THE PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE handles a range of work on official corruption and insurance fraud. Its Economic and Cyber Crime Unit prosecutes complex cases such as identity theft, bank fraud, counterfeit check schemes, embezzlement, and forgeries.
THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, has a Financial Institution Fraud Section responsible for prosecuting a broad spectrum of schemes. It investigates money-laundering in cooperation with U.S. Secret.
THE NEUMANN COLLEGE PROGRAM ON INTELLIGENCE STUDIES is a new certificate program modeled after courses taught at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and used by the FBI, DEA and Homeland Security. One of its courses, Electronic Intelligence Analysis, will teach analytical tools to counter Organized Crime and Money Laundering. Another course on Organized Crime will explore the roots and causal factors in US society, as well as the activities, organizations, and economics or organized crime. One of the instructors was supervisor for the FBI's White Collar Crime Unit.
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, the region's major daily newspaper, has a team of investigative reporters and editors who have vast experience exposing corruption by public officials and others.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL has faculty who teach about Organized and White Collar Crime.