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18 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
"CommunityBank of Texas (CBOT) has agreed to pay $8 million as part of a consent order reached with FinCEN regarding deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (AML) program..."

CommunityBank of Texas fined $8M over AML failures complianceweek.com/regulatory-enf…
One of the related cases:

June 25, 2019

"...an enterprise federal authorities described as one of the nation's biggest illegal sports gambling and money laundering operations."

Feds: Texas family ran $33M illegal sports gambling outfit
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"In addition to prison time, the Tillerys have agreed to forfeit a total of more than $35 million in judgments, cash, properties, watches, jewelry, and sports memorabilia."

Feds: Texas Dealership Fronted Gambling Enterprise autodealertodaymagazine.com/357406/feds-te…
Related case [B-1].

August 15, 2013

"Transactions were run through servers & websites on the Caribbean island of Curacao, where gambling is legal; transferring money into the US is not."

Five Billion Dollar Sports Gambling Ring Busted In North Texas
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Related case [B-2].

May 1, 2019

"Nine people were charged Wednesday with money laundering as police and prosecutors raided two poker clubs in west Houston."

Houston poker clubs raided; 9 charged with money laundering khou.com/article/news/c…
Related case [C].

July 15, 2020

"Eight people have been arrested on federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges..."

Eight face federal charges as 'head' of chemical trafficking organization following on Nederland fireworks retailer
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19 Dec
"Both sides agreed to strengthen their cooperation in combating terrorism, drug trafficking, transnational crimes, 'colour revolutions', money laundering & terrorist financing..."🤦‍♂️

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18 Dec
ICYMI.👇

December 15, 2021

"Addressing the core causes & sources of transnational criminal activities is an urgent priority..."

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17 Dec
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"This month, the Curaçao government will adopt a plan to tackle the gambling mafia that illegally offers online games of chance in other countries based on a sublicense."

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16 Dec
What could go wrong? Plenty.

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14 Dec
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"...after judges overturned an oil executive’s conviction as part of a sprawling bribery suit that it dedicated years to investigating."

U.K. judges overturn an oil exec’s bribery conviction in an embarrassing blow to the country’s top fraud prosecutor
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