Massachusetts Banking Expert Witness
 
Gene Cooney Gene Cooney has over 35 years of banking experience as a line manager and consultant. As a manager he has had responsibility for all types of deposit accounts to include checking, NOW, savings, IRAs, money market and time accounts; many aspects of loan administration and the operations associated with various cash management products. As a consultant he has been involved in the minutia associated with the above and many other aspects of banking to include strategic planning, disaster recovery and change management.

Gene has served as an expert for state and federal cases addressing the needs of clients from North America, South America and the Bahamas. The clients were both plaintiffs and defendants in civil and criminal actions. These cases involved amounts at issue ranging from $100,000 to $130 million and were associated with financial institutions with assets from $140 million to $1.3 trillion.

His cases run the gamut of traditional issues to include but not limited to the illegal movement of funds using cash management products; mortgage loan administration; return items; violation of check processing, teller and deposit procedures, regulations and standard practices; disaster recovery, embezzlement, general fraud and bank fraud. Gene has also been involved with many contemporary issues both as a consultant and an expert to include depositing embezzled or fraudulently obtained funds into bank accounts which may lead to money laundering; identity theft; Check 21 replacement documents; point of sale (POS); and no envelope ATMs.

While he has addressed many different types of cases, in Massachusetts he has worked cases involving Bank Secrecy Act violations, embezzlement, and the failure of banks to adhere to banking regulations and fraudulently establishing a checking account to launder money.
 
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