You know what's interesting?
Laundromats.
occrp.org/en/azerbaijani…
The Azerbaijani Laundromat used a neat little tactic.
They opened accounts in the name of a low-level bank employee, in this case a driver, and transferred more than $1.7 billion into other countries and open shell companies.
occrp.org/en/azerbaijani…
You know who else uses these sorts of Laundromats?
Corrupt Russian businessmen. Seems to be popular with Ukraine criminals too.
occrp.org/en/laundromat/…
You know who knows a lot of corrupt Russian and Ukrainian businessmen?
Michael Cohen.
He was actually business associates with some indicted for money laundering in the 90s.
Something to do with their taxi company.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
You know what someone might want to do?
Maybe they should check international records for some of these taxi drivers to see if any businesses have been opened in their name.
Oh wait! FinCEN does that. Where Barr's daughter works. Reporting to Mnuchin.
Sigh.
You know what's weird about FinCEN?
Other than it being the place Jessie Liu was going to run until she refused to charge McCabe...
They really don't seem helpful when it comes to shell companies.
Nearly 3M U.S. homes and 13M apartment units are owned by shell companies. Highest amount in American history.
"One part of the government knows the people behind these shell companies...Yet FinCEN insists on keeping that information secret."
nondoc.com/2020/01/10/she…
It's the kind of thing you'd think the Treasury IG would investigate...
Then again he is the guy who cleared Mnuchin of any wrongdoing in withholding Trump's Tax Returns.
politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
He's an interesting fellow, Richard K. Delmar.
Keeps a low profile for a public figure.
He also didn't seem to do much with the allegations that several FinCEN agents were compromised by Russia and using unsecure back-channels.
buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
"At least 10 FinCEN employees have filed formal whistleblower complaints about the department. The whistleblowers say they tried multiple times to raise concerns about issues they believed threatened national security, but that they faced retaliation instead of being heeded."
Turned out this whistleblower went to Congress first. Ended up leaking the info to @JasonLeopold in desperation.
Delmar clearly squashed any legitimate investigations into all the compromised individuals at FinCEN.
Where Barr's daughter works.
Under Mnuchin.
Natalie Mayflower Edwards was one of the first whistleblowers who tried to warn us.
She went through the right channels, saw they were squashing the investigations, and leaked because the public deserved to know.
Of course they locked her up for that.
Looks like a good time to be looking at FinCEN news. Seems someone tied to the stories above has some new reporting coming soon.
@JasonLeopold doesn't fuck around, and most definitely has some fascinating receipts.
If they have proof about Delmar squashing investigations into FinCEN that goes back to the first Russian compromise of the Treasury in 2015 and links to everything.
Looks like this is part of the same reporting. Given the hype they're building around this, and the thread above, if Delmar isn't HEAVILY implicated (along with Cohen, and likely Hannity), I'd be shocked.
FinCEN has a lot of secrets.
And here we go...
"The FinCEN Files investigation shows that even after they were prosecuted or fined for financial misconduct, banks such as JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of New York Mellon continued to move money for suspected criminals."
"The networks through which dirty money traverse the world have become vital arteries of the global economy. They enable a shadow financial system so wide-ranging and so unchecked that it has become inextricable from the so-called legitimate economy."
"In all, suspicious activity reports in the FinCEN Files flagged more than $2 trillion in transactions between 1999 and 2017. Western banks could have blocked almost any of them, but in most cases they kept the money moving and kept collecting their fees."
"FinCEN unearthed tens of thousands of pages of documents."
"Some were never turned over to the committees that requested them. A person familiar with the matter blew the whistle to multiple members of Congress."
"The lack of money laundering enforcement had nothing to do with a lack of evidence of suspicious transactions, but a lack of interest by political and law enforcement leadership.’’
Wow. IMO this is quite damning for FinCEN. They're not doing their job at all and Delmar is complicit.
Also, this is convenient:
"A source familiar with the matter told BuzzFeed News that FinCEN’s database did not contain SARs on either Trump or the Trump Organization"
The DOJ and FinCEN can't be trusted to do this because they already had access to all of this and didn't act.
Delmar needs to get dragged infront of Congress yesterday.
Someone can tell me if I'm missing anything obvious, but this makes more sense then all of the other bullshit we've been fed from Treasury.
You know, the department that was compromised by Russia in 2015 and no one seemed to give a shit?
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