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In Ongoing Revamp, FinCEN Offers Early Retirement Package to Longtime Employees
By Colby Adams
printDozens of officials in the U.S. financial intelligence unit may be resigning this month as part of the bureau's plan to remodel itself. In a letter dated July 31, the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said that it had obtained permission from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to pay up to 20 of the bureau's high-level intelligence research analysts as much as $25,000 each to voluntarily retire or resign from their positions. The letter, which is signed by FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery, also outlines terms under which all eligible, fulltime employees can apply for early...
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