#FinCEN Assesses $1.5 Million Civil Money Penalty against South Dakota-chartered Kingdom Trust Company for Willful Violations of the Bank Secrecy Act
April 26, 2023: This is FinCEN’s first enforcement action against a trust company! fincen.gov/news/news-rele…
'Kingdom Trust admits to the Statement of Facts and Violations set forth below and consents to the issuance of this Consent Order'
uh-oh, they've been caught red-handed!
'The conduct described below took place from February 15, 2016, through March 15, 2021'
Apr 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Anywhere you go in the US, there are pickup trucks. Office workers even commute in them. The bestselling vehicles in America are trucks. What are the bestselling trucks in China? Do they even have any? @GundamNorthrop en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b…1. Ford F-Series, 650k sold in the US in 2022 2. Chevy Silverardo, 510k 3. Dodge Ram 470k 4. Toyota RAV4 400k 5. Toyota Camry 300k
Do the Saudi Royals really want to go thru Discovery over this golf venture??
“wealth fund has assets totaling $676 billion, LIV Golf revealed in court filings, of which $40 billion are held in US companies, including Uber, Meta, Microsoft, Zoom, Starbucks, Amazon and Walmart.”
Sep 15, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
from Charles Johnson's latest on Bill Barr & genealogical analysis:
Barr’s alma mater Columbia has ties to Chinese world date back to the early 1900s.
At 20k volumes, Columbia’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library (formerly known as Chinese Studies Library) charlesjohnson.substack.com/p/how-attorney…
boasts the largest collection of Chinese genealogical records in North America. (Victoria Li, “Librarians, Scholars, and Spies: How a Trove of Chinese Ancestral Records Found Refuge on Columbia’s Shelves,” Columbia Spectator, March 27, 2019.)
Sep 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Biden executive order to strengthen Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) ability to block Chinese investment in technology in the US and limit its access to private data on citizens 💪 archive.ph/axa4q
The committee will review cases that would have an impact on “microelectronics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and bio-manufacturing, quantum computing, advanced clean energy, and climate adaptation technologies”
Sep 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?” Favre texted New in 2017
Nancy New has pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts of bribery, fraud and racketeering in $77 Million Mississippi public fraud case washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/09…
"The texts allegedly show Favre, New and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant conferring on how to divert at least $5 million for a volleyball stadium at Southern Miss, where Favre played college football and his daughter played volleyball at the time some texts were sent."
Sep 14, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Increase Will Be Largest in Four Decades
Retirees will learn the amount of the increase for 2023 on October 13th, and the current estimate is that it will be 8.7%
#BidenBoom #COLA archive.ph/cGyGM
"Rising Medicare premiums often take a significant bite out of COLAs; the premium for Part B (which covers outpatient services, like doctors’ visits) typically is deducted from Social Security benefits. Large increases in Part B can sharply reduce, or even eliminate, a COLA."
Sep 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Russia spent millions in secret global political campaign, U.S. official says
"Russia has secretly funneled at least $300 million to foreign political parties & candidates in more than two dozen countries since 2014 in an attempt to shape political events beyond its borders, according to a new US Intel review"
I guess this Evergrande headline from last week of their Hong Kong HQ getting foreclosed on didn't look too good for Xi's China economy and his coronation next month to be President for Life
time to re-double efforts to keep the property bubble fully inflated!!
Got to get the violent, racist, misogynists out of the Charlottesville PD 🤬
Charlottesville hired a Black police chief to heal. Then it fired her. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…
"Unite the Right had unleashed a crisis of public trust in government. One glaring failure was the police department, which was unable to contain white supremacists who brawled with counterprotesters, claiming a life and injuring nearly 50 on Aug 12, 2017"
Unable or unwilling?
Aug 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Gary Schroen, Who Led the C.I.A. Into Afghanistan, Dies at 80 on August 1, one day after US missile kills Ayman al-Zawahri
Weeks before the troops arrived, he took a small team into the country to prepare for an invasion & begin hunt for Osama bin Laden. archive.ph/sTqmf
"He was 80. His wife, Anne McFadden, said the cause was complications of a fall."
pretty convenient fall... there have been several other elderly and not so elderly folks falling in past few years
Aug 11, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
63-yr old High School Dean and Youth Minister in Boston was secretly a member of the Latin Kings gang & recruited new members to sell drugs! washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08…
This $hit is Crazy!!
May 27, 2022 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Florida lawmakers, too busy with culture wars, missed an actual crisis
there's a lot to unpack in Florida's home insurance market failure washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
DeSantis orders special session to fix the property insurance crisis
"That’s because the GOP-run legislature squandered weeks of the regular session trying to control what teachers and corporations can say and do instead of addressing a mess that alarms millions of Floridians"
May 26, 2022 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
Update on Sanctions Hell in Putin's Russia due to the Ukraine Invasion...
Russia is starting to devolve into a secondhand economy dependent on poor substitutes, where shortages are stirring memories of the consumer wasteland that was the Soviet Union. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/…
"Unable to secure spare parts from Western manufacturers, Russian aviation sector is facing a crisis. ~80% of Russia’s commercial fleet consists of foreign-made planes, predominantly from Airbus & Boeing, both of which have stopped doing business w/Moscow"
May 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Broadcom agrees to buy VMware for $61 billion
Executives said merger allows both companies to offer expanded platform of critical infrastructure services for large enterprises.
Broadcom, known for semiconductors, gets big foothold in cloud computing washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…
“Collectively, we will deliver even more choice, value and innovation to customers, enabling them to thrive in this increasingly complex multi-cloud era,” said VMware chief executive Raghu Raghuram
May 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🔥🔥🔥 from Krugman
"Now the glitter is gone. Social media, once hailed as a force for freedom, are now denounced as vectors of misinformation...Technology moguls still possess vast wealth, but the public — and the administration — isn’t offering the old level of adulation."
"And it’s driving them crazy.
We’ve seen this movie before. Back in 2010 much of the Wall Street elite, rather than feeling grateful for having been bailed out, was consumed with “Obama rage.”"
Mar 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again,
Much as I appreciate Biden Admin’s Antitrust efforts, wouldn’t it be quicker to reform social media if US Gov’t provided a public option for Facebook, Twitter, etc?
All the sharing features without ads & foreign disinformation campaigns
Facebook has proven repeatedly they will not be a responsible, patriotic country
First they let Russia and other hostile foreign & domestic enemies run amok on their platform to help steal the 2016 election
Mar 14, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Israel gonna have to choose: join the West or Putin's kleptocracy
Not Both washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/…
"At least 14 rented private planes have departed from Moscow and landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in the past 12 days, Channel 12 News reported Saturday." archive.ph/ECTvK
Mar 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
How's Putin's world domination scheme going?
Well, Assange legal case in UK moved step closer to extradition, so there's that... 😘 washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…
How much are you paying your lawyers, Julian? 🤣🤣🤣
The highest court in Britain has refused to hear an appeal from Julian Assange to block his extradition to the United States on espionage charges, saying his petition “does not raise an arguable point of law.”
Mar 4, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Cogent Communications cut their Internet backbone to Russia so they couldn't launch cyberattacks against the West to retaliate over their massive Ukraine Invasion sanctions ✂️ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Cogent’s networks carry about one-quarter of the world’s Internet traffic.
Cogent has several dozen customers in Russia, with many of them, such as state-owned telecommunications giant Rostelecom, being close to the government.
