John Madinger recently retired as a senior special agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. In his 36-year law enforcement career, he also served as narcotics agent, supervisor, and administrator. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Indiana University, a master’s degree in history from the University of Hawaii, and was the honor graduate in the Treasury Criminal Investigation Training Program. He is the recipient of numerous awards and citations from the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. Throughout his career, he had extensive experience in money laundering, forfeiture, and financial investigations, developed training programs in these areas for the Treasury and Justice Departments, and developed and presented money laundering training in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
John Madinger, who has extensive experience as an IRS criminal investigator, has written an outstanding introduction to the complex world of money laundering. It includes interesting sections on the history of money and of money laundering along with other forms of financial crime. -Security Management June 2013