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New York Chapter
CAMS New York Chapter is proud
to welcome its two newest executive board members! Hal Crawford of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co and
Meryl Lutsky of the New York State Attorney
General’s Office were elected to the executive
board at its December 2010 board meeting.
Crawford is the global head of anti-money
laundering and the deputy director of
compliance for Brown Brothers Harriman
& Co., the oldest and largest partnership
bank in the United States of America. He is
responsible for oversight and direction of
the firm’s international AML and sanctions
programs and participates in a variety of
senior management activities designed to
enhance firm-wide regulatory risk management control practices. He has more than
twenty years of experience in global financial services, advisory and national bank
supervision. His banking experience includes
serving as the deputy regional money laundering prevention officer and head of financial intelligence at UBS Investment Bank in
New York, the national director for enhanced
due diligence at the US Trust Company of
New York and compliance officer for MidHudson Savings Bank. He spent several years
working for Arthur Andersen’s Regulatory
Risk Services Practice, and was a national
bank examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Crawford has
long supported the New York Chapter and
hosted its mobile payments and electronic
banking event in July 2010 at Brown Brothers
Harriman & Co’s New York headquarters.
Lutsky has been the chief of both the money
laundering unit of the New York State
Attorney General’s Office and the New York
State Crime Proceeds Strike Force since
2004. These units investigate and prosecute
money laundering and its associated criminal
conduct, as well as violations of the banking
and tax laws. To investigate these complex
crimes more effectively and creatively, she
has assembled a task force consisting of
federal and state prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and regulators. Among other
cases, she has recently investigated several
multi-state fraud rings whose crimes included
identity theft, money laundering, credit card
fraud, bank fraud and wire fraud.
Lutsky is also very active in educating and
training financial institutions in how to
protect their institutions from financial fraud.
She participates in regional task force meetings throughout the state and meets with
institutions on an individual basis to discuss
their specific risk exposures and controls.
She has also spoken about money laundering
and related topics at numerous seminars
and conferences, including the ACAMS AntiMoney Laundering Conference in Las Vegas,
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