With more than 25 years of experience conducting forensic accounting audits and investigations, Ed Rodriguez supports a variety of clients in money laundering investigations, criminal tax matters, and financial crimes analysis. He is highly knowledgeable about requirements and penalties regarding the Bank Secrecy Act, and he has conducted complex domestic and international investigations using a variety of Federal statutes including the Internal Revenue Code, which focuses on tax, money laundering laws, and civil and criminal forfeiture statutes.

Prior to joining Watkins Meegan, Ed supervised and led the networking process designed to facilitate information sharing between law enforcement agencies with shared investigative interests to develop expertise in uncovering financial value such as assets targeted for asset forfeiture potential. He conducted strategic analyses intended to enhance money laundering investigations, as well as to execute criminal and civil forfeitures. Additionally, he served as a Special Agent-Senior Analyst in the Financial Crimes Section of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, where he was responsible for the IRS CI’s national money laundering program. In the IRS CI’s New York Field Office, he was a Supervisory Special Agent on several task forces where he provided strategic support to IRS special agents through the identification of trends, patterns and issues associated with money laundering and other financial crimes.

As a Special Agent, Ed conducted investigations by using asset tracing combined with financial investigative methods to disclose various fraud schemes in which beneficial owners concealed their assets through false records, nominee transactions and the use of offshore banks. Ed was one of the authors of the 2005 U.S. Government's National Money Laundering Threat Assessment signed by the Secretary of Treasury, U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security.