New law lifts veil of corporate secrecy, so law enforcement can trace trafficking businesses.

[[link removed]] [[link removed]]Dear John,

We won! Thanks to so many of you who lent your support, law enforcement now has an
important tool to unmask human traffickers hiding behind fake businesses and
anonymous shell companies.

Until now, someone could literally claim the business was owned by Daffy Duck
and it would be perfectly legal to do so. This made it hard for law enforcement to trace trafficking networks through
financial transactions and to shut them down for good.
[[link removed]] Instead, they were left arresting middlemen and sometimes even the victims
themselves.

But in the final days of 2020, Congress enacted legislation requiring businesses
to disclose who actually benefits from their operations. This is a huge victory that will make a real dent in trafficking, particularly
in the illicit massage industry where thousands of women are exploited and
trafficked in the United States.

It took more than a decade. It took a great deal of hard work and compromise.
Most of all, it took people who cared; people like you. We are grateful.


In Solidarity,

Allison Grossman
Director of Public Policy and Strategic Advocacy



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