Instructor Biography

Terry M. Neeley

Terry M. Neeley

Founder & Managing Director
West Coast AML Services, LLC
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About The Instructor

Mr. Neeley is a well-respected expert in the criminal enforcement of the BSA and Money Laundering Control Act – federal money laundering statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 and 1957). He has 25+ years of firsthand experience investigating complex international drug money laundering organizations, white collar financial crimes and terrorist financing. He was a key figure in the most significant drug money laundering investigation in U.S. history, which involved the indictment and conviction of foreign banks and twenty bankers for violations of the BSA/AML. He served at the U.S. Embassy Ottawa, Canada and Den Haag, The Netherlands, and briefed Black-Market Peso Exchange undercover money laundering operations he ran to U.S. Ambassadors in Colombia and Panama, members of Congress, senior management at the Treasury and Justice Departments and Italy’s Anti-Mafia. He successfully directed Departments of Justice and Treasury certified undercover financial task force operations in Chicago and Los Angeles against the infamous Juarez, Mexico drug trafficking organization and Cali, Colombia Cartel. 

In August 2016, Mr. Neeley concluded a six-year position with the Department of the Treasury, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program after working hand in glove with Department of Justice prosecutors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Inspector General, conducting highly complex grand jury investigations and prosecutions of financial institutions and bankers under Treasury’s $850 billion "Bank Bailout." Concerned about cannabis banking issues, Mr. Neeley founded WCAMLS, a Bank Secrecy Act, Money Laundering Control Act risk management consultancy. WCAMLS has provided consultations to the most significant cannabis-related risk management programs in the nation.