Debra Geister is director of fraud prevention and compliance solutions at LexisNexis’ Risk and Information Analytics Group. Money Laundering Insights: Real Estate Investments, Shell Corporations among top money laundering schemes. Insurance is a channel for money launderers where they pay with cash and get an agent to write a policy for them. Institutions need to pay attention to performing due diligence in the sources of funds including real estate investments, Geister says. There are too many loop holes out of real estate transactions that need to be closed.”]