Bruce Bagley  Bruce Michael Bagley (born 1945/1946) is an American academic, and chair of department and professor of international studies at the University of Miami. In November 2019, he was charged with money laundering. Bagley is the co-author of "Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Violence in the Americas Today", published in 2015. Bagley has done consultancy work for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), for the U.S. Government (Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration), and for several governments of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia Panama and Mexico on issues of drug trafficking, money laundering and public security. Bagley has testified before the U.S. Congress on matters related to Latin America on numerous occasions, and has also appeared in US federal court as an expert witness on drug trafficking and organized crime in Latin America. In November 2019, Bagley was charged with laundering about US$2.5 million in corruption proceeds from Venezuela. He has been placed on "administrative leave" by the University of Miami. Bagley lives in Coral Gables, Florida.