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Warpy

(111,106 posts)
7. Typically, US "news" is ignoring this story
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 12:54 AM
Sep 2020

although the BBC has it splashed all over its home page. NBC is the only network to give it a mention and then in regard to N. Korea laundering money through US banks.

Cartel money was discovered flooding into US banks in the mid 00s. The Panama Papers story broke in, what, 2013? 2015?

Regulators have done what they always do, collect the documentation and stick it into a file somwhere while ignoring the criminals behind it. The banks are entirely dependent on that gravy train from dictators, human traffickers, rogue states, and drug cartels, not te mention organized terrorists working with our "allies." Everybody is afraid to rock the boat. They know how easily it can sink.

This story, in combination with the other two I mentioned, should blow the whole rotten thing apart, but it won't. Everybody wants the whole vicious thing to hang together just long enough for them to feel safe.

It won't.

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