Show Notes
In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters” Kieran talks with Erin West, the former Santa Clara County prosecutor who founded “Operation Shamrock,” a not-for-profit dedicated to fighting the explosion in cross border online scams and related-crimes that often rely on forced labor.
Erin and Kieran discuss her virtual and on the ground pursuit of transnational perpetrators of fraud, including exposing romance scam compounds in Cambodia and Myanmar, hunting Yahoo Boy sextortionist “Big Dollar” in a village outside of Nigeria, and, just prior to this interview, touring Oklahoma to uncover marijuana farms that utilize enslaved labor.
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