Case 1:12-cr-00763-ILG Document 3 Filed 12/11/12 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 5 U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney's Office Eastern District of New York CBD:DSS/AAS 271 Cadman Plaza East F.#2009R02380 Brooklyn, New York 11201 December 11, 2012 BY HAND DELIVERY and ECF The Honorable I. Leo Glasser United States District Court Eastern District of New York 225 Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, New York 11201 The Honorable John Gleeson United States District Court Eastern District of New York 225 Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, New York 11201 Re: United States v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Holdings plc Criminal Docket No. 12-763 (ILG) Dear Judge Glasser and Judge Gleeson: The government respectfully submits this letter to request that the Court file the above-captioned criminal Information, attached hereto as Exhibit A, with the Clerk of the Court, place this matter into abeyance for a period of sixty months and exclude that time from the period within which trial must commence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(2). The defendants join in these requests. As set forth in the document attached hereto as Exhibit B, the government and defendants HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Holdings plc (collectively “HSBC”) have entered into a deferred prosecution agreement. Should HSBC comply with the terms and provisions of the attached agreement, the Case 1:12-cr-00763-ILG Document 3 Filed 12/11/12 Page 2 of 2 PageID #: 6 - 2 - government has agreed to dismiss the Information after sixty months. Respectfully submitted, LORETTA E. LYNCH United States Attorney By: /s/ Alexander A. Solomon Daniel S. Silver Assistant U.S. Attorneys (718) 254-6074/6034 cc: David N. Kelley, Esq. Samuel W. Seymour, Esq. 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The following Statement of Facts is incorporated by reference as part of the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (the “Agreement”) between the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia (collectively, the “Department”) and HSBC Bank USA, N.A. (“HSBC Bank USA”) and HSBC Holdings plc (“HSBC Holdings”); and as part of a separate Deferred Prosecution Agreement between the New York County District Attorney’s Office (“DANY”) and HSBC Holdings. 2. HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Holdings hereby agree and stipulate that the following information is true and accurate. HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Holdings accept and acknowledge that they are responsible for the acts of their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents as set forth below. If this matter were to proceed to trial, the Department would prove beyond a reasonable doubt, by admissible evidence, the facts alleged below and set forth in the criminal Information attached to this Agreement. Bank Structure 3. HSBC Bank USA is a federally chartered banking institution and subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. (“HSBC North America”). HSBC North America is an indirect subsidiary of HSBC Holdings. HSBC Holdings is the ultimate parent company of one of the world’s largest banking and financial services groups with approximately 6,900 offices in over 80 countries (collectively, HSBC Holdings and its subsidiaries are the “HSBC Group”). HSBC Group is comprised of financial institutions throughout the world (“HSBC Group Affiliates”) that are owned by various intermediate holding companies and ultimately, but indirectly, by HSBC Holdings, which is incorporated and headquartered in England. The Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) is HSBC Bank USA’s primary regulator. 1 Case 1:12-cr-00763-ILG Document 3-3 Filed 12/11/12 Page 2 of 30 PageID #: 55 Applicable Law 4. Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act, Title 31, United States Code, Section 5311 et seq. (the “BSA”), and its implementing regulations to address an increase in criminal money laundering activity through financial institutions. Among other things, the BSA requires domestic banks, insured banks, and other financial institutions to maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity that might be indicative of money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes, and to maintain certain records and file reports related thereto that are especially useful in criminal, tax, or regulatory investigations or proceedings.