Episode 2: Banking Failures
5 parts
Wire transfers, suspicious activity reports, and willful blindness — how hundreds of millions moved through banks that saw the red flags and kept processing. Each part builds on the last — investigative analysis drawn from court filings, financial records, and released documents. Browse all episodes or the full investigation archive.
- Part 1 224 Wires, $24.1 Million Financial Forensics
The corpus contains 224 parsed wire transfers totaling $24,059,535.45, spanning April 2004 to August 2019 across five banking institutions. Vision-langu...
- Part 2 Willful Blindness: $150 Million Financial Forensics
The New York Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $150 million for systemic anti-money laundering failures in the Epstein relationship....
- Part 3 The TD Bank SAR: $47.3 Million Financial Forensics
A single 29-page TD Bank Suspicious Activity Report documents $47.3 million in suspicious transactions across 25 subjects from May 2015 to August 2019....
- Part 4 The Butterfly Trust Financial Forensics
The Butterfly Trust, opened at Deutsche Bank in January 2014 with Indyke and Kahn as co-trustees, disbursed $2.65 million through more than 120 wire tra...
- Part 5 Benford's Law and the Round Numbers Financial Forensics
Benford's Law predicts that the leading digit of naturally occurring financial data follows a logarithmic distribution — digit 1 appears roughly 30% of...