John Wintrow

Mr. Wintrow is a Manager within the firm's Financial Crimes Advisory practice, operating out of the Phoenix office. He is a Certified International Crime Prevention Specialist (ICPS) with over 30 years of collective law enforcement, military, and intelligence community experience; spanning both corporate and government arenas. Mr. Wintrow formerly headed threat intelligence and investigations and designed an extensive data analysis platform aiding trend analysis and anomaly detection of targeted terror threats. Mr. Wintrow is also a global leader in the domain of foreign terror organizations' exploitation of social media and headed counterintelligence efforts for a federal government agency. He has taught graduate courses in Criminal Investigations, Counterterrorism, and Management of Cyber Investigations. Mr. Wintrow obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from Ottawa University and holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Security Studies in Counterterrorism from National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs.

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The Nexus between Organized Crime and Terrorism

In past articles, we have discussed the tactics, techniques and procedures used by transnational organized crime (“TOC”) and foreign terrorist organizations (“FTO”); however, we have yet to discuss the alliance between the two, including the role...

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Terrorism Financing: Past, Present and Future

Recently, we observed the sixteenth anniversary of 9/11, recalling the tragic loss of life and the sustained terror threat that still exists....

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Developing an Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring Strategy

Are all rules created equal? How do you design effective transaction monitoring rules that are capable of capturing the vast majority of money...

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Transnational Trade-Based Money Laundering

Transnational Trade-Based Money Laundering ("TBML") constitutes one of the most challenging and malevolent forms of money laundering to investigate....

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