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#moneylaundering

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Reps of Trump’s family have held talks to take a FIN stake in the US arm of crypto exchange Binance, a move that'd put Trump in bus with the firm that pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating anti-#moneylaundering requirements.

At the same time, the founder, Zhao—who served 4 months in prison after pleading guilty to a related charge—has been pushing for the Trump admin to grant him a pardon.

#Trump corruptly enriches himself, & legitimizes laundering$, & #crypto.

#USPol
wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

Trump family in discussions to take an ownership stake in #Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange and the recipient of the largest #moneylaundering fine in American history - $4.3 billion - after they admitted (just last year!) to having laundered money for all kinds of terrorist groups, #ransomware gangs, and pedophile rings.

The CEO #CZ went to prison (only for 3 months - lol) for all that money laundering and he now wants a pardon.

Oh, BTW, #TrumpCoin trades on Binance. In fact Binance is the largest market for #TRUMP on most days.

I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

Trump has named #PaoloZampolli, the man who introduced him to #Melania who also moved in #JefferyEpstein’s world & ran a charity with #GhislaineMaxwell in addition to being buds with infamous #Tether co-founder, friend of #SteveBannon, & former co-owner of maybe the most infamous and well publicized pedophile ring in Los Angeles history, #BrockPierce, to be America's “Special Envoy For Global Partnerships”.

A lot of people think Brock PIerce is basically “the gay #Epstein”. He certainly has the track record for it - history of involvement with pedophile rings, deep connections to #Israel (and maybe Russia - he’s besties with the people behind the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal), the whole works.

#Zampolli was also involved in a "cash for passports" scandal when he was an ambassador in the crypto #moneylaundering haven of #Dominica, a #Caribbean island which now counts #JustinSun's #TRX token as legal tender.

Vanuatu wants to cancel fugitive ex-IPL boss's citizenship. But can it?
By Hannah Jose and Leah Lowonbu

Lalit Modi was the man who founded the lucrative Indian Premier League, then fled India. Now, he's trying to ditch his Indian passport for Vanuatu's.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-13/lal

ABC News · Vanuatu is scrambling to cancel the citizenship of fugitive Indian ex-IPL boss Lalit Modi. Can it?By Hannah Jose
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Trump’s apparent business, real estate development, had become a Russian charade. Having realized that apartment complexes could be used to launder money, Russians used Trump’s name to build more buildings. As Donald Trump Jr. said in 2008, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#trump #russia #moneylaundering

No less than 76 #Democrats just voted with Republicans to overturn the #IRS's "defi broker rule" which would have required crypto firms like #MarcAndreessen's #Uniswap to collect information on their users and in so doing discourage the use of these platforms for #moneylaundering by criminals and rogue nuclear states (#NorthKorea *loves* Uniswap) and by the very wealthy to avoid paying #taxes.

The new wave of #memecoin scams like #TrumpCoin are also all facilitated/perpetrated by these decentralized trading platforms.

If any of these people are your representative you should do what you can to make sure they are primaried because they are not representing your interests. At a minimum call them and yell at them (this works better than most people think!)

The corruption of the US government by #crypto bros is extremely bipartisan.

* Full roll call of vote: clerk.house.gov/Votes/202571

#uspol#defi#DOGE

Ex-gov Oyetola stole $20m, N1.5bn from Osun coffers – Adeleke petitions EFCC: The Osun State Government alleges that Gboyega Oyetola, the state’s immediate previous governor, misused a $20 million World Bank health grant. The government also accused Oyetola of money laundering, financial wrongdoing, and violating the Public Procurement Act in the distribution of a grant intended to boost the state’s health sector. The… creebhills.com/2025/03/ex-gov- #Oyetola #Adeleke #OsunState #EFCC #MoneyLaundering