" Mr. Carney said the Secret Service and the White House were following their normal mail-processing procedures, which include screening letters and sending suspicious items to a remote location for "more intense testing.
In these, Jessen's troops sample e-mail, lecture employees to be circumspect about what they put into mail and install procedures and software programs to make sure that the files computer users dump in the trash are really gone from their hard drives.
An SEC enforcement release says that each firm "lacked adequate systems or procedures for the preservation of electronic mail communications" from 1999 to at least 2001.
According to a recent USA Today article by Laura Petrecca, 26 percent of the nearly 600 companies participating in a 2009 Electronic Business Communications Politics and Procedures Survey said they'd fired an employee for e-mail misuse.
Rather than focusing on money laundering that results from substantive criminal violations, such as mail or wire fraud, drug crimes, or corruption, federal prosecutors are looking instead at weaknesses in the internal procedures employed by financial institutions to prevent laundering.