"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and…
Business Week. July 2006. Little if anything has changed since this was written. (Emphasis added) When drug runners and terrorists want to park illicit cash, there may be no better haven than hedge funds. Despite tough new anti-money laundering standards…
Fast Company has a photo essay documenting the downward spiral of Dubai, which had the biggest real estate / money laundering bubble on the planet. The photo says it all, long lines of sewage trucks waiting to dump sewage in…
Miami Herald. This is damning stuff. I hope the pretend regulators involved to go to prison. Employees for disgraced banker Allen Stanford were shredding records and sending pouches to Antigua stuffed with money — under the watch of Florida regulators.…
GQ has an in-depth article delving into Stanford’s rise to billionaire status, his alleged money laundering and role as DEA informant, and his amazingly brazen ways. My take: His current weepy / angry persona and bizarre asking to be arrested…