Jim Dinkins is the Senior Vice President and Director of Operations for Enterprise Financial Crimes Compliance. In this capacity, he leads the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Operations teams, including financial intelligence, transaction monitoring, investigations and enhanced due diligence. Jim served over 27 years in federal law enforcement and joined U.S. Bank after serving as the General Manager of Thomson Reuters Special Services, where he led the company’s efforts to provide big data, open source, and public records to the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities. Jim served in federal law enforcement in a number of key senior leadership roles within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In 2010, he was responsible for establishing ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the nation’s second largest federal criminal investigative component. As the head of HSI, Jim served as the chief operating officer and oversaw the agency’s global national security and public safety efforts, directing a team of more than 9,000 employees, which included nearly 7,000 special agents, 700 intelligence analysts assigned to 200 field offices throughout the United States and 75 international locations in 48 countries. In this capacity, he had direct oversight of HSI’s operations as well as investigative and enforcement initiatives, which targeted transnational criminal organizations that exploit America’s legitimate travel, trade, financial and immigration systems for illicit purposes. To accomplish this mission, he administered a budget of approximately $2 billion. Jim retired from federal law enforcement in 2014. Prior to leading HSI, Jim held a number of key federal law enforcement leadership positions, including ICE Director of Investigations, Special Agent in Charge, Washington, D.C. & Maryland, and Chief of the Cornerstone and Financial Investigation Programs. As the Chief of the Cornerstone and Financial Investigation Programs, he was responsible for developing international and domestic initiatives designed to combat vulnerabilities in the United States’ financial and trade sectors that could be exploited by terrorists or other criminal organizations. He began his law enforcement career as a Special Agent with the U.S. Customs Service office in San Francisco, CA. Jim is a member of the American Gaming Association’s Illegal Gaming Board, Pen-Link President’s Advisory Board, and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators Advisory Board. Jim previously served on the board of directors for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and was the Chairman for the World Customs Organization’s Enforcement Committee in Belgium.

Mr. John Brosnan entered on duty with the FBI in September 1995 and began working white collar crime matters in the New York Field Office later that same year. As a special agent in New York, Mr. Brosnan was the case agent on "Operation Uptick," which resulted in the arrests of over 125 individuals, including made members of all five organized crime families, a New York City detective, stockbrokers, hedge fund managers, and accountants. The case was described as "the largest securities fraud case in history" by former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Mary Jo White. He received the United States Attorney's Office Director's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Enforcement for his work in this investigation. He also served as acting supervisory special agent in the New York Field Office during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City. In August 2002, Mr. Brosnan was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterterrorism Division International Operation Section II at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for the Iraq Counterterrorism Program and the FBI’s Darkening Clouds Initiative during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In January 2005, Mr. Brosnan was assigned to the Philadelphia Field Office where he served in various leadership positions within the division, including supervisory special agent of the white collar and cyber squads. In August 2009, Mr. Brosnan was named the supervisory senior resident agent at the Newtown Square Resident Agency with responsibility for all counterterrorism, cyber, and criminal matters with federal jurisdiction in Chester and Delaware Counties. In October 2011, Mr. Brosnan was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office where he oversaw all public corruption, white collar crime, and civil rights matters. In March 2017, Mr. Brosnan was promoted to section chief of the Violent Crimes Against Children Section in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters with responsibility for managing crimes against children matters, including child abductions, child sex trafficking, child sex tourism, and online child sexual exploitation. Director Christopher Wray named Mr. Brosnan special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in the New York Field Office in January 2018. Mr. Brosnan is a native of Whitestone, New York. He graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in accounting and was subsequently hired by the "Big Four" accounting firm Deloitte and Touche. He is also a licensed certified public accountant (CPA) and certified fraud examiner (CFE).

Ms. Forman is presently the Managing Director for the AML Global Investigations Unit (GIU) for Citigroup. With over 30 years of Federal Law Enforcement experience, Ms. Forman brings a wealth of anti-money laundering and trade fraud expertise to this position. Under Ms. Forman’s leadership, the GIU initiates proactive, complex global investigations of high-risk clients. The enterprise-wide nature of the GIU’s investigations requires coordinated analysis of client activity in multiple jurisdictions and business sectors. Prior to joining Citigroup, Ms. Forman served as the Independent Court Monitor for the Western Union and State of Arizona judicial settlement. In addition, Ms. Forman was a consultant in private practice specializing in business compliance in the fields of anti-money laundering, trade fraud, IPR and immigration. Ms. Forman served for over five years as the Director, Office of Investigations where she oversaw the largest investigative arm for DHS, with over 6,200 Special Agents and administered a budget of more than $1.6 billion. Ms. Forman was the architect and Executive Director of Operation Green Quest, a highly successful U.S. Department of Treasury led multi-agency task force that was immediately established after September 11, 2001 to address the threat of terrorist financing. Ms. Forman is currently an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she instructs on AML Compliance and Terrorist Financing. In addition, Ms. Forman serves on the Board of Directors for the ASIS International Council on Global Terrorism, Political Instability and International Crime. She is the recipient of the prestigious Presidential Rank award for meritorious service, the Women in Federal Law Enforcement President’s award and the Secretary of Homeland Security’s Silver Medal for leadership. Ms. Forman holds a Master of Science degree in management from National-Louis University, a Bachelor of Science degree from American University and has completed the Senior Executive Fellowship Program at Harvard University.

Sharon Cohen Levin is a leading authority on anti-money laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), economic sanctions and asset forfeiture. Ms. Levin served for 19 years as Chief of the Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Since 2006, under her leadership, the SDNY forfeited in excess of $13.9 billion, equal to more than 59% of all federal forfeitures in the United States during this period, of which $8.9 billion has been or will be remitted to crime victims. In 2014 alone, the SDNY forfeited in excess of $7.25 billion, the largest amount collected in any year by any US Attorney's Office since the United States Asset Forfeiture Fund was established in the 1980s. During her tenure, Ms. Levin prosecuted and supervised many of the Department of Justice's most complex and significant money laundering, sanctions and asset forfeiture prosecutions, including the investigation and prosecution of BNP Paribas, SAC Capital, Lebanese Canadian Bank and 650 Fifth Avenue. Ms. Levin has worked closely throughout her career with state and federal banking regulators, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), FinCEN and the Department of Justice. As a result, Ms. Levin brings unique skills to clients seeking representation in complex financial services litigation and compliance requirements for regulated entities. Ms. Levin is recognized nationally and internationally as a leading authority on money laundering and asset forfeiture. Her experience working on forfeitures recently helped reunite Roman Totenberg's Ames Stradivarius—a rare antique violin that was stolen from him following a 1980 performance—with his family (read InsideCounsel's coverage of this matter). She is also a widely recognized for her work related to the recovery of stolen art and cultural heritage property. She has been the keynote speaker, lecturer and panelist for practitioners, law enforcement officials, judges and international prosecutors on topics of enforcement trends in the financial industry, effective AML compliance programs, money laundering, terrorist financing, US economic sanctions and art recovery. Over the course of her career she has been recognized with 15 prestigious national and international awards and in 2015 was named one of the 75 “most accomplished female attorneys working in the legal profession today” by The National Law Journal. Ms. Levin is currently an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, where she leads a seminar on asset forfeiture and money laundering.