David Tyree served 25 years as a Special Agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  David was assigned to DEA offices in New Mexico, Oregon, Portugal, Cape Verde, Africa and Wyoming. While with the DEA, David participated on Suspicious Activity Report teams with several domestic and international asset forfeiture/money laundering investigation teams, which resulted in the forfeiture of over $80 million in criminal proceeds related to drug trafficking, human trafficking and transnational organized crime. 

Since 2004, David has been a regular facilitator/instructor for the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), the United States Attorney’s Office at the National Advocacy Center and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Based on David’s successful investigations derived from Suspicious Activity Reports, David has been designated in Federal Court as a money laundering detection and prevention expert. 

David, who is a certified anti-money laundering specialist with the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) was recently published in ACAMS Today, providing guidance on how law enforcement and financial institutions can best collaborate and David will soon be published in the Journal of Financial Compliance. 

David retired from the DEA in April of 2023 as Resident Agent in Charge of the DEA in Wyoming to work as a Senior Specialist of the Internal Audit Department of Charles Schwab Bank in their Financial Crimes and Risk Management Division.  In July of 2024, David accepted the role of US Chief of Compliance for Asset Reality Inc., a business that serves as the custodian of seized assets for law enforcement around the world. In 2025, David pursued his passion of combatting financial crime by working with Valid8 Financial, a software as a service platform, to assist law enforcement efforts in following the dirty money and articulating the results to law enforcement, prosecutors and financial institutions. David regularly consults law enforcement, US Military and BSA/AML units from financial institutions on best practices for investigating, disrupting and dismantling criminal organizations and seizing and forfeiting their ill-gotten gains.