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Except Binance didn't make out too bad in the end anyways. CZ still has billions of dollars and is looking at a pretty good sentence given the allegations. Monitorship does not ent…

Banks I assume? You would get the market rate, not the official rate. Edit: yes, exactly

You can speculate on nonconvertible currencies with non-deliverable forwards. This is not offered by most retail brokerages.

It is if you have friends in the central bank. In Venezuela the official rate was like 10x the black market rate at one point so if you had the connections you could go say 60000 b…

There is generally no criminal prosecution for paying ransoms. There might be if the ransomware group is sanctioned but that would true regardless of payment method. If a public co…

Yes, I am aware. I just think people here overestimate the reversibility and traceability of the traditional system. If you're a business and you're defrauded/hacked and don't real…

There's something called "business email compromise" with annual losses about 10x that of ransomware. It relies on tricking companies into paying invoices to an attacker controlled…

You are aware that Milošević and Tuđman both agreed to carve up Bosnia, right? And there was Varivode, "Operation Storm" where the Krajina Serbs who didn't flee quick enough were r…

> For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services. That's it.…

Then you should be able to tell us what defrauding someone of their intangible right of honest services encompasses :)

Yes, it lowers criminal margins by 10-20%. So what? For it to make a meaningful difference that number would have to be a lot higher. And it's unlikely that the current approach to…

There is a difference between there being a record of it in some county's database and a team of Treasury department and federal law enforcement members scrutinizing the sale (and …

> 7% of GTO reports identified individuals or entities connected to ongoing FBI cases So... 93% of people had their privacy violated for no reason. And that was with the current hi…

The FTC's incredibly low win rate in federal court should be a source of agency-wide embarrassment. The only place they reliably win is their kangaroo "administrative courts" in wh…

Myanmar has had multiple ongoing civil wars since 1947. Kachin conflict, various disputes in Shan State, Karen conflict, Rohingya conflict, etc. It's way more complicated than just…

They are likely referring to Homeland Security Investigations, a division within ICE which is basically like a parallel FBI that handles white collar/CSAM/high level drug stuff. Us…

It also is just a misleading set of complaints by a bunch of activists. > CASSARA: ... overseas doing training, talking about the importance of cracking down on money laundering. A…

Seems they're also mad about Amazon delaying discovery and (allegedly) not giving them everything. Why don't companies just use Signal/some enterprise equivalent with auto deleting…

There were cooperators in the same chatroom, a participant in the chats gave up their phone at an airport, or he volunteered it (probably not this). Same way it was obtained in all…

I think Republicans tried something like this in the aftermath of Choke Point, it didn't go anywhere: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-money-laund... .

The sad reality is that Paypal doesn't serve these territories because they are "high risk" and also low income which means the amount of compliance officers they would have to emp…

Of course all the countries mentioned in the article are all the kind of country where 10-20% of the people on the government payroll don't even exist ("ghosts"), no bid contracts …