A decade of FBI investigations of
banks for enabling money laundering & tax evasion flipped the banks into giving up the #receipts. So crooks & swamp creatures switched to crypto, which is now giving up the receipts.
At Coinbase & other exchanges, Suspicious Activity Reports to the feds tripled in 2021 because the companies started reporting instead of protecting their clients.
There was likely the same amount of suspicious crypto trading in all of these years. But by 2020, enforcement efforts had forced the exchanges to begin complying with the law.
The IRS was able to get account records on any US customer. How'd they identify US customers?
Anyone who had a US bank account, address, or phone number affiliated with the account. Including foreign citizens who had US shell companies trading in Bitcoin.
They have also gone after the law firms that set up the off-shore shell companies. After convicting one client from a law firm for evading taxes, IRS got a John Doe Summons for all of the firm's similar clients from 1995-2017.
They are also going after how people are spending that off-shore money. Getting the names of people using corporate credit cards issued in the names of shell companies where they hid their assets off-shore.
A great example from Australia of how fake news is manipulated by collusion between oppo research figures, 'journalists', & politicians to convince the public of a narrative they want to create.
How the current PM was involved in taking down a past PM.
Brittany Higgins made an allegation that she had been raped by Bruce Lehrmann in the office of Australia’s then defense minister in 2019. She told police but wouldn't file charges. Then went to the media in 2021 in a political campaign against the PM.
Lehrmann was charged with sexual assault, but the case was dismissed for jury misconduct when a juror brought evidence into the deliberations from the internet.
Guilty pleas for selling $100M+ of refurbished & compromised CISCO networking equipment from China with counterfeit parts & software to make them appear legitimate to US users including the US military. From 2014-2022. #ButNothingsHappening justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-doz…
Onur Askoy of Turkey & Miami, Fl. ran these companies including selling on Amazon & eBay.
Added components to defeat Cisco security measures & conceal that they were fraudulent devices with bootleg software.
All counterfeited in China...
They don't mention backdoors or vulnerabilities but those are by far the biggest issue when these network components were used by schools, hospitals, government agencies & the US military.
So govt agencies & the military were purchasing counterfeit Cisco routers from the Chinese?
Executives & lobbyists convicted for participating in an 8 year scheme to bribe Illinois officials, including then Speaker of the House Mike Madigan for Swampy favors for ComEd.
Record seizures & arrests for trafficking opioids & fentanyl on the darknet.
It's like the key nodes in the global corruption services industry have all be compromised & are being used against the cartels, organized crime & corrupt officials... #ButNothingsHappening
Woolsey & other Swamp Creatures served on the advisory board of a casino in the North Marianas Islands that was laundering Chinese money into the US.
Their job, advise the crooks on how to navigate the Swamp in DC & other places.