By Kevin Shepherd ( August 24, 2017, 11:12 AM EDT) -- The real estate industry is under increased scrutiny as a sector that is vulnerable to money laundering. The press and governmental agencies have been at the forefront of this effort. The New York Times published an expose in 2013 contending that expensive Manhattan condos were being bought with "dirty" money by foreign actors. The television news magazine "60 Minutes" ran a program in 2016 purporting to show that lawyers were willing to collude with criminals to launder money in various business transactions. The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued geographic targeting orders in January 2017 requiring U.S. title insurance companies to report beneficial ownership information on legal entities used to purchase luxury residential real estate in Miami and Manhattan. FinCEN reissued these GTOs in July 2016 and March 2017 and extended coverage to all of New York City, two additional counties in the Miami metropolitan area, five California counties (including Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego), and the county that includes San Antonio, Texas....