If Gorsuch had gotten his way, 13 years of work -hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of transactions would have been unraveled possibly delivering shock to the mortgage-lending industry as 2008 crisis — or even sending the world economy into a tailspin. vox.com/22431044/neil-…

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2 Oct

Secret U.S. government documents reveal JPMorgan Chase, HSBC & other big banks have defied money laundering crackdowns by moving staggering sums of illicit cash for shadowy characters and criminal networks that have spread chaos & undermined democracy icij.org/investigations…

In some cases the banks kept moving illicit funds even after U.S. officials warned them they’d face criminal prosecution if they didn’t stop doing business with mobsters, fraudsters or corrupt regimes.

JPMorgan, the largest bank based in the United States, moved money for people and companies tied to the massive looting of public funds in Malaysia, Venezuela and Ukraine, the leaked documents reveal.

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30 Sep

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that body camera videos, recordings of 911 calls, photos, autopsy records, emails and texts are not public records that have to be released.

H/t @Standupchia al.com/news/2021/09/a…

“We believe that we were right all along in this,” Mack said in an interview this week. “I think there is information that should be released to the public. But we also have to find balance with protecting investigations.”