The developing drama series, based on Kim Reid's 2007 memoir of the same name, will find the actress reuniting with "American Crime" executive producer John Ridley, according to Deadline.
"I implore businesses, civil society and each and every person to pledge their support for the Trust Fund," said Yuri Fedetov, UN Office of Drugs and Crime Executive Director.
The program is being developed in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, whose executive director, Antonio Maria Costa, said the initiative came at a time when the sophistication of financial transactions made recovery an increasingly complex process requiring expert assistance.
And if deliberate, it is a war crime," UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake said in a statement.
One group in particular, Truckers Against Trafficking, has already trained about 170,000 drivers in how to identify the red flags associated with the crime, Kendis Paris, executive director and co-founder, told Reuters.
"American Crime Story" executive producer Brad Simpson told People that the victims are kept out of the series "out of respect," and the creative team chose to use Toobin's book, rather than the victims' families, as their guide.
Until the financial crisis, Enron's bankruptcy was viewed as Exhibit A of corporate crime and executives run amok.
Nearly three years later, in March 1987, 17 of those people, two of them allegedly crime family executives, were found guilty in federal court in Downtown Manhattan for orchestrating an international, Mafia-led narcotics ring that stretched from Brazil to Sicily, and from New York to the rural Midwest.
Prosecutors have labeled it a hate crime and County Executive Steve Levy called the defendants, who have pleaded not guilty, "white supremacists".
"This technique has become more popular across the country as smaller departments have followed the larger cities and tried to prevent crime," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum.
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