Terry Neeley is a highly regarded expert in the federal law enforcement BSA/Money Laundering Control Act field with over 25 years of firsthand experience investigating complex drug money laundering organizations, white collar financial crimes and terrorist financing.

He successfully directed Departments of Justice and Treasury certified undercover financial task force operations against Mexico and Colombia drug trafficking cartels for the U.S. Customs Service Office of Investigations, Headquarters, Washington, DC. He was a key figure in the most significant drug money laundering investigation in U.S. history, which involved the indictment and conviction of foreign banks and twenty bankers for violations of the BSA/AML.

Terry served in the U.S. Embassy Ottawa, Canada and Den Haag, The Netherlands. He briefed trade-based AML operations he ran to U.S. Ambassadors in Colombia and Panama, members of Congress, senior management at the Treasury and Justice Departments,  and Italy’s highest-level of Anti-Mafia. He supervised Counter-Terrorist Financing investigations and undercover operations in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack.  

He also worked with Department of Justice prosecutors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Inspector General, conducting highly complex grand jury investigations and prosecutions of financial institutions and bankers under Treasury’s $442 billion "Bank Bailout."

Following his government service, Terry provided consultations to marijuana-related business banking programs in the United States. He crafted specialized risk assessments and strategies appropriate for the size, risk appetite and complexity of regional and national banks.