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Sep 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
BOOM!

Secret govt documents reveal how giant banks move trillions in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves while facilitating the work of terrorists, kleptocrats, and criminals. And the US government fails to stop it.

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
This is one of the largest journalism projects ever.

It involves more than 400 journalists in 88 countries convened by @ICIJorg.

It is based on thousands of government documents — the #FinCENFiles — that @BuzzFeedNEWS shared with the coalition.

More of our stories today:
Top executives at Deutsche Bank had direct knowledge for years of serious failings that left the bank vulnerable to one of the largest money laundering scams in history.

buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwar…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
US intelligence believes this financier was assassinated on orders from Putin or his circle. But he also illuminates how illicit cash is siphoned out of the former Soviet republics and into the mainstream banking system.

buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwar…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
Here's how our crack team analyzed the documents and crunched the numbers.

This explainer is not only eye-opening, it’s also eye-popping!

buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
Here is how the banks responded to our investigation:

buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfe…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
A podcast! That’s right, a five-episode podcast that is absolutely riveting.

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@BuzzFeedNews @pineapplemedia #FinCENFiles
You can see everything we publish in this massive investigation here on our landing page:

buzzfeednews.com/fincen-files
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
Bravo to @JasonLeopold @a_cormier_ @jtemplon @TomBWarren @jsvine @scottpham @Richard_AHolmes @MikeSallah7 @TaniaKozyreva @LoopEmma @arielkaminer @HeidilBlake @alexcampbell @GeorgeWPapajohn @azeen @brknyc @bubaczery @BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
More kudos to: @katiejmbaker @KendallTTaggart @DruMoorhouse @schweptaway @allmalone @morroweric @TomNamako @davidmackau @sarayasin @Walldo @mattmittenthal @baldwin_sydney @pineapplemedia @WBJenna @briannesabino and Eva Lee.
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
And still more congratulations to David Zhao, Tami Olafunmiloye, and Brian Lee, as well as to @sophiecomeauusc @waylon_atx Sam Feehan @banancypancakes @krhutchings @kmstorm99 @FelTap @karensiqiwang @abby_washer @ashleydzhang of @USCAnnenberg.
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles

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Mark Schoofs Profile picture
Sep 27, 2020
Sunday reading suggestions!

First, secret docs show banks move trillions in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves while facilitating the work of terrorists, kleptocrats, & criminals. The US government fails to stop it.

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
Second, a blood-boiling look at how the government supposedly cracked down hard on @HSBC.

But even while it was under the government’s thumb, HSBC kept moving money that the bank itself suspected was dirty.

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
Next up, @DeutscheBank. Turns out the current CEO and board chair had direct knowledge for years of serious failings that left the bank vulnerable to one of the biggest money laundering scandals ever.

buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwar…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
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Sep 21, 2020
NEW #FinCENFiles bombshells!

After HSBC got caught letting drug kingpins launder $880 million through its accounts, its promises to clean up turned out to be hollow — and so did the government’s threat to crack down.

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
@BuzzFeedNews
DOJ says it got tough, putting HSBC under a “deferred prosecution agreement.” The bank paid a fine, submitted to an outside monitor and promised to go on the straight and narrow — all under threat of prosecution.

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
@BuzzFeedNews #FinCENFiles
Now, @BuzzFeedNews reveals that even under the most intensive government scrutiny, the bank continued to facilitate and profit from transactions it suspected were dirty.

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
#FinCENFiles
Read 11 tweets
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Aug 27, 2020
BOOM!

China has secretly built hundreds of massive new prison and internment camps in Xinjiang, creating a vast and permanent infrastructure for the mass detention of Muslims.

buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
@BuzzFeedNews @meghara @alisonkilling
Here are the stories of dozens of Muslims, telling what they endured in China's Gulag.

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@BuzzFeedNews @meghara @alisonkilling
Extraordinary reporting by @meghara — China refused to renew her visa, but that did not stop her — and by @alisonkilling and Christo Buschek. Grateful to @OpenTechFund for support.
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May 22, 2020
Ending my first week back with @BuzzFeedNews and thrilled for what’s to come. Many new plans in store, but one I’m most excited about is the creation of new desks and beats.
The “Inequality” desk will expose stories of race and racism, gender and sexism, as well as other structural forces like debt, isolation, the gig economy, and labor organizing. Inequality will focus not only on the poor, but on the rich and powerful, and the actions they take.
The new “Rapid Enterprise” desk will take ambitious swings on fast-moving, hypercompetitive news stories — from science to education to politics to whatever breaking story we can’t yet imagine. The desk will enable collaboration and coordination across the newsroom.
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Mar 11, 2020
BOOM!

Urgent and vivid story: Modern-day tenements of LA’s San Gabriel Valley house thousands of poor, struggling Chinese immigrants.

These “boarding houses” are overcrowded, unsanitary and potentially deadly.

laist.com/projects/2020/…
@KPCC @LAist @dianawang123
Rooms are often divided by slapdash plywood, drywall, even shower curtains. Tenants endure rodents, insect infestations, leaks and mold, as well as theft, fights among themselves and other consequences of living cheek-by-jowl.
Biggest concern is fire, as apartments often lack smoke detectors, while exits are blocked by overcrowding. As one fire chief said: “You have more people in the room than you’re supposed to, so they have limited exit-ability to get out.”
Read 14 tweets
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Feb 12, 2020
MUST READ!

Stunning investigation into a vast rental estate empire that leaves many tenants in dirty, dangerous, and even deadly housing.

Roaches, rats, bedbugs, bees, maggots, mold.

And fire.

laist.com/projects/2020/…
@a_mendelson @KPCC @LAist

1/25
In a rented mobile home, baby Jenica’s parents put her in a crib, then fell asleep by the TV. They woke to an inferno.

2/25
The father rushed toward the blaze to try to save his baby. The flames burned his head and back.

A neighbor called 911, shouting: "There's a baby trapped in there. There's a fire. It's bad!"

3/25
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