Blacksburg and especially here in lantern ridge. The investigation found its way here to a pond near the virginiamayland college of veterenary medicine building on techs campus. Lt. Mike albert, Blacksburg PoliceDepartment Investigators continue to be very busy today with pursuing the approximately 300 leads generated over the past five days. Divers from the Virginia StatePolice Search and recover team braved 39 degree water searching for evidence but wouldnt say what they were looking for. Now, the search continues as the questions pile up. Philip church you know i think you just never get over Something Like this. Those divers i mentioned may be out again tomorrow to continue their search. Keepers is in Montgomery County jail without bond. Eisenhauer is charged with first degree murder and abduction. If you have any information about eisenhaur, keepers or lovell, call police. Christian heilman wdbj7. Fifteen to twenty degrees above normal and we are still mild although the sun has set fifty nine degrees rain on gretna road opens also fifty nine degrees lynchburg and fifty seven and lewisburg fifty four degrees at about five to Fifteen Degrees warmer than where we are yesterday eleven degrees warmer roanoke and thirteen degrees warmer and lynchburg the comfortable conditions continue into the work week because nubia head of the week. Temperatures tomorrow will stay in the low sixties and even famous frontal boundary is just beginning to develop investigating a deadly crash in pittsylvania county. It happened at 1030 last night on route Authorities Say a car crossed the center line and ran off the left side of the road and overturned. The driver, cameron long died at the scene. He was wearing a seatbelt. Officials say alcohol and speed were not a factor in the crash. Police are still investigating. Uk based Charity Oxfam says International Donors failed to deliver the funds they promised to help with the ebola epidemic. That outbreak killed more than 11 thousand people, mostly in western africa. The Group Estimates nearly 2 billion dollars has not been delivered to the area. They say even the 4 billion that was delivered is hard to track because scant information. Communities around the world have been criticized for how the ebola crisis was handled. Although the World Health Organization reported the outbreak was over earlier this month, at least one new case has been reported since. Former salvadoran president Francisco Flores has died at the age of 56, according to Government Officials. Flores served as his Attorney Says he was found unconscious at his home and taken to a san salvador hospital. At the time, flores was under house arrest battling corruption charges. In december a judge sent him to trial on a slue of charges including embezzlement and Money Laundering. Flores had maintained his innocence. Last year he admitted to receiving contributions from taiwan when he was a candidate and during his tenure said the money was used for social works. A day before the iowa caucus, Bernie Sanders campaign has released its fundraising totals. His Campaign Says it raised more than 20million dollars this month. Earlier, Campaign Officials say it raised 33million dollars over the last three months of 2015. Hillary clintons Campaign Says it spent 37million in the same time period. No word from Clintons Campaign about its january fundraising. The democratic president ial candidates will make voters on wednesday. Thats less than a week before votes are cast in that states firstinthe nation primary. Cnn announced it will hold a primetime town hall there wednesday night. Hillary clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley will field questions from participants. The town hall happens just two days after the Iowa Caucuses. The latest polls show a tight race between clinton and sanders. As we just mentioned the Iowa Caucuses are just a day away, and president ial candidates are making a final push to get ahead. Steve nannes reports. Nat pop iowa offers only a small contingent of the delegates who will determine the president ial nominees, but a win would greatly increase momentum leading into the New Hampshire primary. A recent poll by the Des Moines Register and bloomberg shows the iowa choice for democratic nominee among likely caucusgoers is Hillary Clinton with 45 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate weve run a terrific course its close its competitive thats why i hope everyone who has decided to caucus for me will come out monday night. Senator sanders not far behind with 42 percent of the vote. sen. Bernie sanders d president ial candidate when we started this campaign here in iowa, we were 50 or 60 points behind secretary clinton. We have come a long, long wayso i think if the turnout is high, jake, i think weve got a real shot to win this. Trump leading the polls as the iowa choice for republican nominee. Surprisingly enough, he wasnt much of a target sunday. Senators ted cruz and marco rubio were going after each other. sen. Ted cruz r president ial candidate when marco ran in florida he promised the men and women in florida he would lead the fight against amnesty. In texas i promised the men and women i would lead the fight against amnesty but when he and i went to washington he and i made very different decisions. A vote for marco is a vote for amnesty. The two clashed over immigration during thursdays debate. And while speaking on the road with cnns jake tapper, the argument still hasnt died down. sen. Marco rubio r president ial candidate ive tried to fix a problem thats a very serious issue in and clearly were not going to be able to do it comprehensively, and were not going to be able to do it until we first enforce our immigration laws. But i dont support amnesty. Im steve nannes reporting. Deadlines to register to vote are quickly approaching ahead of primary races. Virginias deadline is february 8th to vote on super tuesday which is march 1st. Eight states have deadlines this week for those who want to vote in president ial primaries. The Us Election Assistance Commission has links for each states Elections Office and a link to register. A follow up tonight on a man who ran from state police during a traffic stop. Andrew arnold turned himself in to police overnight. He crashed his car and ran from officers just after midnight saturday. Arnolds charges include reckless driving and driving without a license. He also faces unrelated charges in west virginia. General motors wants to accelerate its plans to bring selfdriving cars to the road. Gm is creating a team to focus on selfdriving Research Starting on monday. Already has advanced technology on the road, including the super cruise feature that lets you take your hands off the wheel. This new department will be led by one of gms president s. Its goal will be to make gm the leader in selfdriving car technology. Youre watching your Hometown News leader, wdbj7. Coming up, how teams are preparing the 611 for a spring full of events. And, what you may not have known about the bus display at the Virginia Museum of transportation. And a college in one hometown hosts an event to raise cancer well take you there. I dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Orld seek treatment. I am reatoday theres harvoni. Voary treatment for the most common typeonic hepatitis c. Roven to cure up to 99 of patients had no prior treatment. One and only cure thats, once a day for 12 weeks. N patients. Ed with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Arvoni, theres no interferonere are no complex regimens. Yctor if you have other liver or kidney problems,other medical conditions,out all the medicines including herbal supplements. Odarone with harvoni may causes slowing of your heart rate. Effects of harvoni may include tiredness,he and weakness. I am ready to put hep c behind me. Eady to be cured. You ready . Ur hep c specialistarvoni is right for you. Spring, but first the team that takes care of her has some work to do the 611 will leave the Virginia Museum of transportation soon. Exactly when we dont yet know. But the vintage engine will go to a Norfolk Southern facility at Shaffers Crossing to have the front truck wheels replaced. Scott lindsay is the steam engine expert restoration last year. Scott lindsay steam engine expert the wheels that are being replaced date back to norfolk and western operation in the 50s. So i believe they were dated 1957, so they ran the end of steam, and all of the ns Steam Program in the 80s and 90s, and got us through the 2015 season. So theyve done their job, and its time to make them an exhibit. After the wheels are replaced, the 611 will return to the North CarolinaTransportation Museum for the annual inspection required by the federal railroad administration. The queen of steam will get an extensive checkup including boiler tests, but lindsay says shell be ready for the spring exurcions. Tickets for the 2016 excursions go on sale in february. Speaking of the Virginia Museum of transportation, it offers much more than just trains theres cars, planes and even a special bus display. Museum volunteer, harry messimer, drove for greyhound for 31 years, so hes the man to talk to about all things busses of transportation almost everything in this room is my collection. Messimer i had just got out of the korean war, during that time, and i came there in 1956 and these are my two buses. Messimer like i say, almost everything in here is my collection. The toy buses, the pictures are individual pictures i put into collages. I have some of the old bus station postcards. They used to put them out in different cities. I did a lot of the hauling of the protesters to washington, dc, during the 1960s. The freedom riders is what they were. And id have to stay with them and bring them back to here, and then another driver would take them back south, when they go. Those were rough days for me. Scary days, really, for the freedom riders and all. I never had any trouble with any of them. I treated them real nice, and talked say, stayed with them in washington, dc, three or four days at a time. This is my favorite spot here, the better buses. Theres the old silverside bus, and the old double decker bus, and the others that were made. These were my best ones. I got some of them at yard sales,and some of them we we had in chicago, and washington, dc, and new york city, they had the gift shop that sold toy buses. I bought this school bus in salem, virginia. It was on eighth street, underneath a canopy. And it had been kind of beat up and banged up a little bit, but we got it fixed and we got it running. The most important thing about this bus is the seats inside of it. nat snap as chain cut away ah, yes. messimer its a 1934 Dodge Brothers school bus. As old as i am, i with seats like the inside of this bus. And im real proud of it now, because a lot of people love it, we get a lot of compliments on it. This was my cap here, my drivers cap. I was a driver instructor at one time here, for the last seven years that i worked with greyhound. And i trained the first driver girl driver that drove in this area for greyhound at one time. 1976 and 77. A lot of the drivers said, why dont you sell this stuff and get you some money . i said why do you think i saved it for . For myself and the public, to show the public someday. Oh, yeah. There will always be a bus. Averett universitys mens basketball game featured a special event to raise cancer awareness. Its all part of the 2 nd annual caring for carrie event to raise money for the v foundation for carrie hendrick, averetts current director of athletic training education. Shes been battling Ovarian Cancer since 2013. Jamie valvano, daughter of late nc state coach jimmie v was there to show support. She says all it takes is one person to make a difference. Jamie valvano Breast Cancer survivor my Dad Foundation when he was diagnosed with it was just one man find a cure for voice to share that with others and he started the v foundation. Averett raised just over 800 at the annual event last year. Community members and local College Students at washington and lee are working together to fight childhood hunger. The 4th annual souper bowl kicked off today. Restaurants, caterers and bakeries served soup to students, kids, and adults for 10 to 15 dollars. The money raised goes to washington and lees campus kitchens backpack program. Jenny davidson cocurricular Service Coordinator studen ts who are able to access the free and reduced school lunch program, but but over the weekends sort of food support and so the idea is that on friday we can send over a bag of nonperishable food items to help decrease the food needs over the weekend. The program has provided nearly 7 hundred bags of nonperishable food items to students at Elementary Schools in the rockbridge area. This years goal was to raise 8thousand dollars to fund three months of the program. February begins warm and rainy in the first alert forecast. Meteorologist Lindsey Anderson has more on the timing of tomorrows showers. 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Temperatures right now in the low 50s from blacksburg to galax were 49 in wytheville 52 with the Fountain LakeChaco Danville still in the 60s at this hour 63 there over the next 12 hours temperatures slowly dropped we really dont get all that cold lower middle 40s expected overnight with work cloud cover dropping forty degrees and blacksburg forty four in martinsville three ninety covington and three eight in lexington obsolete on my starts were monday and i will help with the warmup tomorrow afternoon clouds continue to filter rain this evening and night never next frontal system very complicated system going on out last to go through this frontal boundary tomorrow and in this storm system that impact in places like arizona and Southern California will strengthen moved to the east impacting us in the middle of weeks lets hang out tomorrows rain and motorcycle ride to his amount communities around eight a. M. And continues to move to the east havent done so the line of showers falls apart so just if you think showers from time to time expected in the afternoon and early evening before clouds linger monday night into early tuesday and into the night and wednesday another frontal system comes for all have the time on that coming up in just a bit lets middle fifties for blacksburg afternoon in charlottesville. The 18thranked cavaliers host the more from the commonwealth clash comingup loftus with your look at sports. Well get things rolling tonight on the mats, and the commonwealth clash between Virginia Tech and the university of virginia. Both teams ranked in the top 25 the hokies sitting at number 10. The cavaliers 18th in the nation. Starting at 133, uvas 6thranked George Dicamillo gets the reversal to pickup 2 points, he gets the 144 major decision over Dennis Gustafson and virginia goesup 4 to 3, but there was still a lot of wrestling to be done. In 149, Sal Mastriani has tj miller in trouble and works his way to a pin. A big 6point pickup for the hokies, who lead it 13 to 4. Onto the this one all wrappedup for the hokies, but third ranked and undefeated ty walz picksup the 86 decision over Patrick Gillen just for good measure. Virginia tech beats virginia 31 to 7, winning 8 of the 10 weight classes. Virginia techs Womens Basketball team on the road this afternoon, where they fall to 11th ranked Florida State 68 to 50. Chanette hicks was all over the court for the hokies with a team high 11 points, 6 assists and 5 steals. Florida states Shakayla Thomas led all scorers with 22 points. Virginia techs mens Basketball Team just tippedoff against pittsburgh at 6 30 also on the road. Well have highlights of that at 11. The mens final of the Australian Open early this morning, where Novak Djokovic makes quick work of andy murray, in a rematch of last years final. Djokovic wins the first set 61 in just 30 minutes, then takes the next two 75 and 76. The topseeded won all 6 of his aussie open finals matches, and has won it 5 of the last 6 years. This victory marks his 11th grand slam title. And as for his series against murray, djokovic has won 11 of the last 12 matches against him. The super bowl is exactly a week away now, and as we countdown to the big game, were getting some of our High School Football stars in the area to help us in the effort. Tonight its salem junior fullback and linebacker, riley fox, as we are now just 7 days away from the superbowl. Fox helped lead the spartans to an undefeated 15 and oh record, cappedoff by a 3point Double Overtime win over lake taylore in the 4a state championship game. Cbs has the big game this year, which means you can catch super bowl 50 right here on wdbj7 at 6 30 next sunday, as the broncos. Janeiro today to participate in the annual pet parade in copacabana. 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Kroft if you like crime dramas and movies with international intrigue, then you probably have a basic understanding of Money Laundering. Its how dictators, drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and other crooks avoid getting caught by transforming their illgotten gains into assets that appear to be legitimate. They do it by moving the dirty money through a maze of dummy corporations and offshore Bank Accounts that conceal their identity and the source of the funds. And most of it would never happen without the help witting or unwitting of lawyers, accountants and incorporators, the people who actually create these Anonymous Shell Companies and help move the money. In fact, the u. S. Has become one the world to do it. Tonight, with the help of hidden camera footage, were going to show you how easy it seems to have become to conceal questionable funds from Law Enforcement and the public. You need look no further for evidence than the changing skyline of new york city, where much of the priciest Residential Real Estate is being snapped up not by individuals but by Anonymous Shell Companies with secret owners. Theres nothing illegal about it as long as the moneys legitimate, but theres no way to tell if you dont know who the real buyers are. It is one of the reasons Global Witness, a londonbased Non Profit Organization that exposes international corruption, came to new york city 19 months ago. It wanted to see how helpful u. S. Lawyers would be in concealing questionable funds. This hidden camera footage was shot in law firms across manhattan without the lawyers knowledge by the man in the Gray Lawrence gabe so its ralph . Ralph kayser ralph kayser. Kroft ralph kayser is not his real name. Hes an investigator for Global Witness posing here as the representative of a Government Official from a poor west african country who wants to move millions of dollars in suspicious funds into the United States, and he needs the lawyers help. Ross are you gonna tell me what country and what minister this is . Kayser i cant tell you. Its one of those mineral rich countries in west africa. There are not so many. Kroft attorney gerald ross and the other lawyers were told secrecy was essential, because the african minister had amassed his fortune collecting special payments from Foreign Companies that hed helped obtain valuable mineral rights. Kayser so companies are eager to get hold of rare earth or other minerals. And so they pay some special money for it. I wouldnt name it bribe. I would say facilitation money. Kroft kayser said it was all legal. And the other lawyers that the minister was shopping for a townhouse, a jet and a yacht, but his name must not be connected to the purchases. Kayser if his name now would appear in connection with buying some real estate here and other items, it would look, at least, very, very embarrassing. James silkenat right. Because his. Presumably his salary in, wherever it is, would not cover the kinds of acquisitions were talking about. Kayser oh, for sure. Its the salary of a teacher here. And so how can we make sure that he is being able toto buy property here and to live a nice life, but his name being out . Silkenat right. Any guesses as to how much money were talking about for the brownstone and the other items . Kayser i mean, the brownstone, talk about 10 million. For secondhand gulfstream, i could imagine 10, 20 million. 300 million. Kroft the fictitious story of the african minister was cooked up in Global Witness london office, based on an actual Money Laundering case. The investigator phoned 50 new york law firms with experience in private Asset Protection and managed to get facetoface meetings with 16 different lawyers in 13 firms. Kayser im very frank. Its, i would say, gray money. I think somebody told me you name it black money. Kroft Global Witness says the pitch was intentionally designed to raise red flags and to give the lawyers good reason to suspect that the ministers millions came from official corruption, and they all did. Kayser its only that the money is a bit, lets say. Gabe tainted. Kayser tainted, thank you very much. Gabe okay, thats a nice word. Okay. Kayser or, you gave another expression . Koplik honest graft. Kayser honest graft okay, fine. So i have to be frank. Its honest graft. How would you name it . Ross some people call it bribes. Kayser nah, i wouldnt name it bribe. Ross never. Business deal. So, okay, bribe. Is actually bribe. Charmian gooch you know, the story of the fictitious african minister would probably have raised eyebrows for the average person on the street. Kroft Charmian Gooch is the cofounder of Global Witness, a public Advocacy Group that exposes corruption in the developing world. Previous undercover investigations exposed the global trade in african blood diamonds. This investigation, gooch says, exposes serious flaws in the u. S. Legal system that have made it a hub for international Money Laundering. Gooch what the lawyers laid out for us in some detail was all the different possibilities and ways in which it could be done. Kroft what youre saying is if you want to get dirty money into the United States, its not that hard to do. Gooch what im saying is there is an open door and its pretty shocking and pretty concerning, because that money could be coming from anywhere. Kroft of the 16 lawyers that Global Witness recorded in these preliminary meetings, only attorney Jeffrey Herrmann flatly showed ralph kayser the door. Herrmann i have some real questions about that. Kayser yes . Herrmann under the foreign corrupt practices act. Kayser right. Herrmann and under the foreign corrupt practices act, bribing foreign officials is illegal. Kayser by americans. Herrmann by americans. Kayser but americans are not involved. So its money from other nation nationals, not american entities, not american nationals. Herrmann its not for me. Kayser pardon me . Herrmann its not for me. Kroft aside from that one exception, 12 out of the 13 law firms, including 15 out of the 16 lawyers, not only heard ralph kayser out, they suggested ways that the suspicious funds could be moved into the u. S. Without compromising the ministers identity. Attorney James Silkenat was selected by Global Witness because at the time, he was association. Yet he and his colleague, hugh finnegan, provided what former prosecutors told us was a roadmap of how to conceal the source of the funds using layers of anonymous, interconnected Shell Companies in multiple jurisdictions. Finnegan presumably, we would set up a little bit of a again, protect privacy as much as anything else. Kayser yeah. Silkenat so company a is owned by company b, which is owned jointly by company c and d, and your party owns all of or the majority of the shares of c and d. Kayser so we, we create several companies . Finnegan yes. Kayser all in new york or different states . Finnegan well, like i said, at some point, probably pretty quickly, youd go offshore. Kroft attorney john jankoff and his partner, lawrence gabe, recommended variations of the same strategy. Jankoff a lot of people in africa use the isle of man. Some of them use liechtenstein. Gabe so he would just take in isle of man. Jankoff he can put it into a swiss bank account. The swiss will have it. And. And then. Gabe and then he comes to us. Us and says, i want to buy a townhouse. Kroft attorney marc koplik also suggested that the minister could move his money out of west africa to europe, where it could be scrubbed in an anonymous corporate entity that his firm would be happy to set up. Koplik the money as it sits now, is it in his name . Kayser its in different names. Koplik okay. So it will come as those different names . Kayser including his name, yes . Koplik so we have to scrub it at the beginning, if we can, or scrub it at the intermediary location that i mentioned. Kayser so how to do this, intermediary . That means a bank in . Koplik well say luxembourg. Kayser luxembourg. Koplik we will set up an appropriate entity call it clientoverseas. Com or whatever, into the United States. Kroft if that was a banker talking instead of a lawyer, he could be in serious trouble. Thats because under u. S. Law, bankers are required to report suspicious financial activity to lawyers are under no such legal obligation. Gooch banks in america are required to know their customer or required to be very cognizant of risk and to report on it if there. If there is an issue there around Money Laundering. And yet, absolutely bizarrely, american lawyers arent. This is clearly an issue. And i think our investigation has shown the potential for what could happen because of that lack of regulation. Kroft Global Witness says that anomaly is just one of the flaws in the u. S. Legal system that helps facilitate Money Laundering. And were going to call it here, anonymous, inc. Kroft another is the ease in which Anonymous Shell Companies can be set up here to conceal ownership of money and assets. Last year two million new corporations were set up in the offices, products or employees. Just an address and perhaps a bank account. Gooch in many states across america, you need less identification to set up and open up an Anonymous Company than you do to get a library card. Kroft gooch says Anonymous Shell Companies are like getaway cars for crooks, designed to put them as far way as possible from the scene of their crime. According to a world bank study, the u. S. Was the favorite place for corrupt officials to set up Anonymous Shell Companies. Gooch there was a very good academic study and america came up as the easiest place to set up an Anonymous Company, after kenya, out of 180 countries. Kroft after kenya . Gooch after kenya. Kroft so did that study have anything to do with your decision to go ahead and do these undercover investigations . Gooch it inspired us. I mean, we almost thought, it cant be this bad, can it . And, unfortunately, what we found is it is. Kroft all of the attorneys expressed some concerns, like this one from gerald ross. Ross ive got to be very careful myself. Money. And that would cost me my license andand i. Just dont do that. Kroft but later, he suggested that the questionable money could be wired directly into his client escrow account, bypassing scrutiny from the banks. Ross when i get money from my other clients, it always comes here with some strange name on it. I dont even ask. Kayser and nobody ask . Ross it doesnt come from minister joe jones. It comes from the xyz account. Kroft john jankoff said they would need to get a legal opinion that the money was clean, then suggested that the minister use front men to open up overseas Bank Accounts. Jankoff if its not in his name, then he needs what is known as a straw man. Practically speaking if the money leaves the country his name should not be attached to the wire. It should be other peoples names. Poncy and we know this happens. We know this happens. Occurs all over the world. But that does not mitigate the power of seeing it up close. Kroft we showed the tapes to chip poncy, a former top official at the Treasury Department whose job was to stop financial crime, terrorist financing and Money Laundering. He says theres nothing wrong with lawyers setting up Anonymous Shell Companies to protect a clients privacy, but if its done to conceal criminal activity, thats when it becomes a problem. Poncy theres a clear pitch consistently presented in every one of these tapes of what amounts to an incredible number of red flags that scream corruption. Kroft dirty money . Poncy dirty money. Kroft bad actors . Poncy bad actors. They dont want to be found and they have a need. Theyve got to move their money from a point where theyve received corrupt proceeds in this case to a point where they can enjoy those proceeds. And to get em from. To get this money from point a to point b, they need help in laundering it, effectively. Kroft poncy says he was comfort with which attorneys seemed to be willing to turn a blind eye and discuss a matter that was likely to be illegal. Poncy whats essential to recognize is that this is after its been revealed that the potential client is representing an african minister with hundreds of millions of dollars of funds received through, effectively, bribes. Kroft this is more than legal advice . Poncy this is legal advice on how to evade controls, or at a minimum, very clear Global Standards on financial transparency to allow our countries to go after proceeds of crime. Kroft attorney marc koplik told the Global Witness investigator that he preferred using Money Managers and investment firms to move funds. He thought it was less risky than using banks. Koplik and i would suggest three or four to you. Some are bigger. Some are smaller. The smaller ones are often more flexible and understanding and reputation. Because they fly, to a greater extent, below the radar screen. Kroft sometimes the advice took the form of suggesting banks and countries that might be less vigilant about Money Laundering. Silkenat we would have to look into how far specific banks looked into, you know, the, you know, the know your customer laws and how far they would dig. Finnegan in many ways, youd probably be better off with a smaller bank because. Kayser that would be a possibility. Finnegan because the bigger banks are much more serious about looking into that stuff. Kayser their reputation. Finnegan right. Yes. Silkenat and there may be other Banking Systems that are less rigorous on this than the u. S. Would be. Kayser what would it be . Silkenat the usual banking havens, i think, would be ones you would want to consider. Of countries where the Banking Systems require less detail on ownership or source of funds. Kroft while James Silkenat, the former president of the american bar association, and his partner, hugh finnegan, listened to the pitch and suggested ways in which they might be able to help, they were also the most suspicious of ralph kayser and his african minister, beginning just five minutes into the meeting. Silkenat we need to talk about the risks or just concerns about where he got the money and how to explain that. Kayser thats it. Silkenat there is. There are issues there. The transactions is which he would be involved here wouldnt be part of facilitating payments, but if thats really where the money came from and if there were, you know, crimes that starts to be an issue. Kroft they were also the most cautious about moving forward. Towards the end of the meeting, hugh finnegan, who is off camera here, said the firm would feel obligated to report anything it believed to be illegal. Finnegan bearing in mind of what you said, no american law was violated, no local law was violated, but, you know, if were aware that a crime is being committed, we have an obligation to report that. Kroft mr. Silkenat says, we need to talk about the risks or just concerns about where he got the money and how to explain that. Poncy that, that, and thats, thats a welcome. Kroft hes already been told how, where the money came from and how he got the money. Poncy correct. So itits a healthy recognition that theres an issue here. Kroft if you could ask him anything about this meeting, what would it be . Poncy whats going through your head . Why are you continuing this conversation . Why not just say no . Is the business that important . Kroft neither silkenat nor finnegan would agree to an on camera interview. Saying they only discussed generic information that could be found on the internet and that their conduct was entirely appropriate. Had the camera followed us after the meeting, they wrote, it would have shown us agreeing that kayser was disreputable and that we would not deal with him again. None of the other lawyers agreed to give us an on camera interview either. When we come back, well take a look at the legal and ethical implications of what youve just seen. Cbs money watch update brought to you by one of the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies. Glor good evening. The United Nations wants 860 million for iraqs humanitarian crisis. On tuesday b. P. Is expected to announce a 70 drop in profits. And former drug company c. E. O. Martin shkreli could face contempt charges if hes a noshow at thursdays congressional hearing on im jeff glor, cbs news. Every day you read headlines about businesses being hacked and intellectual property being stolen. That is cybercrime and it affects each and every one of us. Microsoft created the digital crimes unit to fight cybercrime. We use the microsoft cloud to visualize information so we can track down the criminals. When it comes to the cloud, trust and security are paramount. Were building what we learn back into the cloud james drove his rav4 hybrid into the frozen wilderness. The scent of his jerky attracted a hungry wolfpack behind him. To survive, he had to remain fearless. He would hunt with them. And expand their territory. Hed form a bond with a wolf named accalia. Become den mother and nurse their young. James left in search of his next adventure. How far will you take the allnew rav4 hybrid . Kroft when a Nonprofit Organization called Global Witness came to new york 19 months ago, it secretly recorded hidden camera interviews with 16 manhattan lawyers. Its investigator was posing as the representative of an african official trying to move millions of dollars of suspicious funds. Global witness, which specializes in exposing international corruption, wanted to see how much help the lawyers would provide in setting up Anonymous Shell Companies and offshore Bank Accounts to move the suspicious funds into the u. S. , and at the same time, protect the identity of the fictitious african official. Silkenat good to see you. Kayser good to see you. Investigator, who called himself ralph kayser, told the lawyers that the minister had used his official position to collect tens of millions of dollars in special payments from Foreign Companies to help them obtain valuable mineral rights. He wanted to move the money to the United States to buy a house, a jet, and a yacht. Kayser so therefore, he wants to bring in the money into the u. S. So, starting with the brownstone and then, probably, buying a gulfstream jet. He wants to commission the building of a yacht, and buy, probably, more property. Kroft the story was intentionally devised to raise red flags and lead the lawyers to believe that the ministers money was dirty. During the meetings, only one of the 16 lawyers, Jeffrey Herrmann, told him no. Herrmann this aint for me. My standards are higher. Kroft the rest expressed varying degrees of interest, with most of them offering advice on how it could be done. Koplik we do everything, so, theres no limitation. We dont say, oh, we dont do windows, or we dont deal with the financial Money Managers, or whatever. No. We orchestrate and organize the entire thing. Were happy to take that responsibility. Kroft whats important to point out and it cannot be overstated is that none of the lawyers weve shown you broke any laws, in part because the african minister didnt really exist. There were no hundreds of millions of dollars, and Global WitnessCharmian Gooch said no money ever changed hands. So this is sort of a morality test . Gooch it wasnt. It was a. It was a test on the system. Kroft you know, people could make the argument, look, all these guys did, really, was just listen to this person that came into their office. They didnt make a deal, they didnt sign up. They said, we need to do some more research. gooch and you know what . Theyd be absolutely right to say that, but theyd need to Say Something else, too, which is that those lawyers laid out, in often considerable detail, a bring money into america. Kroft none of the lawyers agreed to take on the african minister as a client, nor were they asked to. It was a preliminary meeting that ended with most of the attorneys expressing interest in continuing the dialogue, and some enthusiastic about landing the business. Silkenat im happy to chat whenever its possible to move the ball forward on this. Kayser fantastic, great. Silkenat good. Kayser thank you so much. Silkenat thanks for coming in. Kroft marc koplik and albert grant foresaw no problem as long as the money was clean, and gave no indication that they planned to do any checking themselves. They went so far as to discuss legal fees. Koplik legal fees will be substantial, albert. Correct me im wrong 50,000 to 100,000. Kroft koplik also suggested conducting a test in which a portion of the suspicious funds would be sent into the United States. Koplik a million dollars. Kayser a million dollars, so, as a test . Albert grant yeah. Kayser because i said, probably you would start with around, 50 million, probably, i could imagine . Koplik i would say a million dollars. Kayser a million dollars. Wrong, itll be painful, but it wont be life threatening. Kayser right. Exactly. Kroft john jankoff and his partner, lawrence gabe, who is off camera here, also seemed willing to go forward. Jankoff we would orchestrate it. One legal fee to cover everything. Kroft however, gabe did express some concerns about the transactions. Kayser who can set up this structure . Could you do it . Jankoff yeah, your brother inlaw does it all the time. Gabe well, okay. But iii dont think he does it with money that may be questionable. And that we have to find out about. Kroft at the end of that meeting, they looked forward to the next conversation on the telephone, not on email. Gabe okay, give me a phone number where we can reach you . Kayser ah. Gabe im certainly not putting this in emails. Kayser sending an email with just an outline would be fine, as well, so its. Jankoff i dont like emails. Kayser you dont like emails . Gabe thats how you catch people. Kroft the hidden camera tapes raise all sorts of ethical questions not just about the behavior of the lawyers, but about the methods used by Global Witness in making them. Simon, a law professor at columbia university, who is one