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Jack Blum

Jack Blum is counsel to the law firm of Baker and Hostetler and is based in Washington. His law practice includes compliance work for banks and brokers and well as consulting for the Internal Revenue Service on offshore tax evasion. He currently represents the man who turned Liechtenstein bank records over to thirteen governments. He was counsel to the Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a total of fourteen years. During that time he investigated financial fraud and money launde- ring. The most notable investigations include an investigation of sub- prime lending (1969-1970), international banking (1974), Lockheed aircraft’s bribery for foreign officials (1975-6), drug trafficking and related money laundering (1986-88) and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (1988-89).

Mr. Blum was co-author of a UN report on offshore havens (1999) and he chaired a UN experts group on asset recovery (200-2002). He is currently Counsel to Americans for Democratic Action, and the National Consumers League, Board Chair of the Violence Policy Center, and a board member of the Fund for Constitutional Government and Global Financial Integrity. Most recently, working with the Norwegian government, he has been named to the advisory board of a World Bank study of illicit financial flows.