FinCEN expands crackdown on real estate shell companies
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will add San Francisco, San Diego, and San Antonio to a geography-based initiative demanding that title insurance companies identify who is behind shell companies used to pay all cash for high-end residential real estate. The initiative is already underway in Manhattan and Miami-Dade County. Joe ...
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