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What would the short-term benefit of this be for the government?

This reads like a madlib, it can't be serious. Who's embezzling money here?

No, this is not new. This is one of the oldest games there is, so it's more like grooming young lawyers/bankers to step into a role, a type, that's existed for hundreds of years. Y…

No, it's far too risky and stochastic to rely on overheard bar convos for this kind of thing. To do this kind of large-scale fraud you need to be built into the system, you need re…

I'm not actually expecting a source—it was a polite way of saying that person has no idea what they're talking about. Your description is in line with what I've read—there's hardly…

Idk where you got that figure for the drug economy but $360B per year is on the low-end and likely outdated. Going off a UN report from the 90s, the illicit drug trade is similar t…

Which one? Back up what you say. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid…

I'm surprised that you'd bring up BCCI in this instance, an institution absolutely steeped in intelligence spookery. Refer to The Outlaw Bank by Jonathan Beaty. HSBC was founded to…

Do you have a source for the claim that drug cartels "try all the banks to see which ones they can launder money through"? I don't believe that's how it works at all. If you read, …

All kinds of source I'm sure—for example, the CIA has financed all sorts of black operations with drug trafficking since at least WWII. Now, that money would not be used to hire th…

This style is ubiquitous—Terry Richardson, etc.

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