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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKen Vogel NYT -- Treasury allowed Deripaska to transfer assets to his children, avoiding sanctions
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Ken Vogel NYT -- Treasury allowed Deripaska to transfer assets to his children, avoiding sanctions (Original Post)
Grasswire2
Apr 2019
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BigmanPigman
(54,787 posts)1. Oh for FUCK'S sake, now I have heard everything!
unblock
(56,071 posts)2. I don't think that argument normally works....
"Hey treasury department, that terrorist group you're trying to squeeze financially owes me money, but it's ok, it's for some stuff they bought from me, uh, right before you slapped sanctions on, so please unfreeze those assets, huh?"
Yeah, try your luck with that one....
Jarqui
(10,857 posts)3. Think they would do that for the children of 9/11 terrorists?
(rhetorical question)
Takket
(23,550 posts)4. add this to the never ending pile of subpeonas we need to issue
TeamPooka
(25,577 posts)5. Sanctions override all previous agreement contracts and treaties
triron
(22,240 posts)6. Ho hum. Just more fucking shit.
machoneman
(4,128 posts)7. Wow, how much more Russkie influence can we stand?
Good Lord, how isn't this collusion to avoid sanctions? Mnuchins fingerprints are all over this one!
