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.
"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.
@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.
"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.
People make their jokes, but when conversations get honest everyone says the same: they're scared, exhausted, and know we're on the cusp of everything getting much worse.
In response to the mental onslaught of so much happening all at once, our media has transformed into a white noise machine calibrated to drown out the death knells.
Every day feels harder to face, frivolous to the point of absurdity.
Instead of waking up we slam that snooze button, and slip into an alternate dimension where time is in abundance.
August 3, 1983 - William J. Casey and his wife attend a reception in honor of Roy Cohn hosted by Craig Spence.
August 4, 1983 - President Reagan and Nancy Reagan greet Donald Trump during a reception for Eureka College Scholarship recipients in the State Dining Room.
Cohn was on the Eureka College Scholarship committee, Trump was a donor.
They didn't both attend in 1983, but Cohn and Trump both went to the Eureka College Scholarship Reception the previous year, on June 28, 1982.
These New York guys must have been quite passionate about the Illinois liberal arts college.
"We knew it might take 5 or 10 or 20 years, yet gradually an authoritarian state arose within the democratic state, and a nucleus of fanatical devotion and ruthless determination formed in a wretched world that lacked basic convictions."
"Only one danger could have jeopardised this development — if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance."
"Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.
Neither was done. The times were such that our adversaries were no longer capable of accomplishing our annihilation, nor did they have the nerve."