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Except Binance didn't make out too bad in the end anyways. CZ still has billions of dollars and is looking at a pretty good sentence given the allegations. Monitorship does not entail unlimited government access to records, it mostly
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Banks I assume? You would get the market rate, not the official rate. Edit: yes, exactly
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You can speculate on nonconvertible currencies with non-deliverable forwards. This is not offered by most retail brokerages.
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It is if you have friends in the central bank. In Venezuela the official rate was like 10x the black market rate at one point so if you had the connections you could go say 60000 bolivars -> (official rate) 10000 USD -> (black market
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There is generally no criminal prosecution for paying ransoms. There might be if the ransomware group is sanctioned but that would true regardless of payment method. If a public company paid a ransom via cash or by buying a bunch of bitco
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Yes, I am aware. I just think people here overestimate the reversibility and traceability of the traditional system. If you're a business and you're defrauded/hacked and don't realize within a week (usually even less t
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There's something called "business email compromise" with annual losses about 10x that of ransomware. It relies on tricking companies into paying invoices to an attacker controlled bank account instead of their actual vendor
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You are aware that Milošević and Tuđman both agreed to carve up Bosnia, right? And there was Varivode, "Operation Storm" where the Krajina Serbs who didn't flee quick enough were raped and pillaged, and a whole bunch of othe
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> For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services. That's it.
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Then you should be able to tell us what defrauding someone of their intangible right of honest services encompasses :)
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Yes, it lowers criminal margins by 10-20%. So what? For it to make a meaningful difference that number would have to be a lot higher. And it's unlikely that the current approach to AML will result in that number changing substantial
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There is a difference between there being a record of it in some county's database and a team of Treasury department and federal law enforcement members scrutinizing the sale (and being given additional records on it from the intermedi
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> 7% of GTO reports identified individuals or entities connected to ongoing FBI cases So... 93% of people had their privacy violated for no reason. And that was with the current highly targeted measure. When it is applied to all real
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The FTC's incredibly low win rate in federal court should be a source of agency-wide embarrassment. The only place they reliably win is their kangaroo "administrative courts" in which they act as the judge, jury and executio
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Myanmar has had multiple ongoing civil wars since 1947. Kachin conflict, various disputes in Shan State, Karen conflict, Rohingya conflict, etc. It's way more complicated than just Facebook. The ethnic tension was always there becau
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They are likely referring to Homeland Security Investigations, a division within ICE which is basically like a parallel FBI that handles white collar/CSAM/high level drug stuff. Usually not immigration related unless its related
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It also is just a misleading set of complaints by a bunch of activists. > CASSARA: ... overseas doing training, talking about the importance of cracking down on money laundering. And I would invariably have a student or a colleague come
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Seems they're also mad about Amazon delaying discovery and (allegedly) not giving them everything. Why don't companies just use Signal/some enterprise equivalent with auto deleting messages so by the time the investigation s
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The Case of Sergei Magnitsky: Anti-Corruption Champion or Corrupt Anti-Hero?(spiegel.de)
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There were cooperators in the same chatroom, a participant in the chats gave up their phone at an airport, or he volunteered it (probably not this). Same way it was obtained in all these cases: https://www.courtlistener.com&#x
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I think Republicans tried something like this in the aftermath of Choke Point, it didn't go anywhere: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-money-laund... .
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The sad reality is that Paypal doesn't serve these territories because they are "high risk" and also low income which means the amount of compliance officers they would have to employ to watch people in these territories and
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Of course all the countries mentioned in the article are all the kind of country where 10-20% of the people on the government payroll don't even exist ("ghosts"), no bid contracts are routinely handed out to friends of the go
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Is there any reason to think that this Kılıçdaroğlu guy is immune to the environment and all the pressures that create people like Erdogan? There are a million other examples of what I described above. Maybe he'll be different but I
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Anybody else tired of hearing about the woes of the "opposition" in all these 2nd/3rd world countries? They're always framed by journalists as these heroic freedom fighters, uncorruptible, etc but in reality it seems li
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Well this interpretation of the bank fraud statute ("bank fraud" with no attempted or actual loss to the bank because they omitted something on compliance forms) came out of the SDNY/EDNY a few years ago and is one many find
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It's just a motion to dismiss, there's no grand strategy. Most of these do not go anywhere but any lawyer that is doing their job will file them.
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Now that the complaint is unsealed this guy is probably never going to leave except at gunpoint. Plus he "only" made 18 million (who knows how much of which has already been spent) which is a lot but probably nothing compared to
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Welcome to the world of compliance monkeys. They will ask for documents over and over again with no intent of unblocking the account.
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The EU lacks the leverage America has that is required for extraterritoriality. Which non-EU country recognizes EU privacy regulator fines?

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