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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs money laundering a crime or is it not?
What is going on with this country that rich assholes are apparently free to launder millions of dollars in dirty Russian mob money, and the only way they are stopped is that they get elected President and have a special prosecutor assigned to them? (If that even stops them)
Why wasn't Trump in jail years before this, and how many other shitheels are running similar criminal enterprises? Are our prosecuters too busy sending hemp users to jail to maybe look into this?
For fucks sake
Shell_Seas
(3,339 posts)I was told that it was not....
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Of those found guilty, over seventy percent of them serve time.
Sounds like a crime to me.
Some information from 2010.
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011/09/01/10statrpt.pdf
AJT
(5,240 posts)registers 1000 corporations wouldn't that have sent up a red flag? When multiple apartments are sold to criminals at inflated prices shouldn't that be looked at? Why aren't rich people under scrutiny? If a poor person doesn't pay a parking ticket they end up in jail.
And it isn't like these patterns would be particularly hard to spot, especially given today's computing and surveillance and data gathering capabilities.
AJT
(5,240 posts)after committing a murder in the library with a candlestick......
ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)we might elect those who would punish them for their transgressions.
As long as we stand in awe of those with money, we will never rein them in.
(Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Cribs, the Kardashians, the Osteens, and on and on)
lostnfound
(16,194 posts)BainsBane
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Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)cheering on Eric Schneiderman like a maniac, but - why not a thorough investigation years and years ago?
ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)It's like this open secret. Everyone knows he's doing it, so what is the holdup?
wishstar
(5,272 posts)because moving money around to avoid detection by authorities is only done to escape taxation and hide criminal enterprises
ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)And subpoenas for records, tax returns, etc. would clear it up in a hurry.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)ananda
(28,890 posts).. nothing is a crime in the Trump admin.
That's because nobocy is holding Trump or his admin
accountable.
If there were an actual, working justice system, that
would be a different story.
I don't expect Mueller's investigation will go much
farther.
It will take a special prosecutor totally independent
of the presidency and his admin.