If the "dirty money" of Harvey Weinstein has corrupted Democratic politics, the same can be said for the dirty money of the Mercers.
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"That is dirty money, and he should pay it back."
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Read the second installment, "The Problem with Dirty Money," here.
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A mob's entire business depends on making dirty money clean.
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In my opinion, he has touched the narcos' dirty money.
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Investigators struggle when dirty money is held in several countries.
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But the risk is that the dirty money might flow elsewhere.
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Hard cash is still a common way of moving dirty money.
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A big concern is just how far dirty money has spread.
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These companies help drug traffickers launder profits and hide dirty money.
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Definitely. Because there is still very dirty money sloshing around everywhere.
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The dirty-money scandal swirling around Danske is the largest ever uncovered.
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AS LONG as dirty money has been around, so has money-laundering.
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The pattern is clear: Dirty money moves gradually to ever cleaner fields.
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See how smugglers and money launderers turn dirty money into pure gold.
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The delivery man sets off two homemade bombs sending dirty money flying.
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In Colombia, prosecutors say its president's re-election campaign accepted dirty money.
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I was at a dinner party; they listed all the dirty money.
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A financial system that lets dirty money flow freely is a bad one.
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There was no immediate reason to think it was dirty money, Derouand said.
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Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money.
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The case was featured on Netflix&aposs "Dirty Money" documentary series in 2018.
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WHEN some of Latvia's banks became infected with dirty money, all paid the price.
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ING is not the only lender in the spotlight for carelessness with dirty money.
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Britain cannot afford to be seen as a haven for dirty money, she added.
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Like Mogilevich, Ivankov had a lot of dirty money he needed to clean up.
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I've seen comments from people saying I'm smuggling drugs, diamonds or washing dirty money.
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This could turn foreign assistance into dirty money -- used to buy votes and more.
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That this is just a ... you'd rather them just keep their dirty money, essentially?
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IN THE go-go years before the financial crisis, banks grew careless about dirty money.
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He is also right that the City is too welcoming to dirty money (see article).
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Whatever the explanation, it is clear that Britain's broader war on dirty money lacks oomph.
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Is he the kind of person who accepts dirty money, or he is a standup guy?
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Those cases barely scratched the surface of a giant global industry dedicated to hiding dirty money.
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Dirty money has long washed through China, but has been viewed primarily as a domestic problem.
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In the story of American business, says Netflix's Dirty Money, Donald Trump is not a hero.
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Hezbollah got extra cash, while the cartel got an efficient way to clean its dirty money.
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"This is an important step to getting dirty money out of the financial system," she said.
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Masayoshi Son is the Walter White of money launderers, washing dirty money and procuring his take.
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Such a database would allow law enforcement to better track dirty money flowing through domestic banks.
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Look, all the money is dirty in some fashion, but that's particularly dirty money right now.
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It's impossible for authorities to determine exactly how much dirty money is tucked away in havens.
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Raiffeisen is just the latest bank to be suspected of channelling dirty money from Europe's eastern fringes.
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If the cry is now that "dirty money" is unacceptable, we need to scrutinize every big donor.
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"Dirty money, or money of corruption, is kept in offshore accounts, or is given cash," he said.
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All this dirty money is indeed a threat, but its concentration in Britain is also an opportunity.
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First is by building new barriers to block the flow of "dirty money" into our financial system.
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Dirty Money comprises of six nearly feature-length episodes exploring corporate greed, culminating in the Trump-focused hour.
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What we might call the Weinstein rule—dirty money deserves political rebuke—shouldn't just apply in Weinstein's case.
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A big talking point of his on the 22016 campaign trail was the dirty money in campaign finance.
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A big talking point of his on the 216 campaign trail was the dirty money in campaign finance.
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Hundreds of billions of euros of dirty money from Russia is believed to have flowed through the lender.
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Ruth put together a team to bring dirty money into the casino by gambling most of it away.
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But what really enables Bobby to turn down Frotty's dirty money is plenty dirty in and of itself.
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Sex, blood, dirty money: It's all there in this Crackle drama about the ugly side of pretty things.
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While the Baltic nations are in the "front line" for receiving dirty money, it ultimately gets invested elsewhere.
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Like they were making a list of the dirty; so Saudi was at the top of dirty money.
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.
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London property is a compelling choice for criminals looking to make dirty money clean, according to law enforcement agencies.
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But Sklar made clear this would be a wise step if you wanted to make dirty money appear clean.
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The most important thing, campaigners say, is to take steps to stop dirty money arriving in the first place.
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"We are concerned about the possibility that dirty money is being put into luxury real estate," a Treasury official said.
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"The people of God... do not need dirty money, they need hearts that are open to God's mercy," he said.
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"You have to [empathize with these people]," Gibney told the Guardian , which is the scary part of watching Dirty Money.
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First, you need to understand that $2 billion in dirty money does not equal $2 billion in clean money. Capiche?
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I'm gonna pay for everything full upfront with my dirty money, and I clean it within an hour or two.
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There is the laundering of an individual's profits to legitimize the dirty money and place it into the financial system.
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Those who watch Black Mirror tend to gravitate toward the equally cynical and edgy documentaries Dirty Money and Food, Inc.
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Banks caught up in dirty-money scandals are not only rushing to hire, but advertising the fact to soothe markets.
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The schemes work to filter dirty money through several automated systems, eventually making their way back to the criminal clean.
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" Waterhouse adds, "When art is co-opted by dirty money and greedy people it needs a foil to that shadow.
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Jones got caught ... and even though he eventually gave back the dirty money -- the situation escalated into a violent affair.
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"Our expertise boils down to following dirty money," Mintz said the other day, in a boardroom on lower Fifth Avenue.
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As in The Wire, all the dirty money is inevitably accompanied by violence, blight, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness.
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And so, we need better systems as a community and as an ecosystem to cleanse ourselves of this dirty money.
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Ibrahimi, 87, has promised to end of what he called "dirty money", referring to corruption under Bouteflika, and introduce transparency.
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It was a transition in her life, making the move from earning dirty money to clean money that inspired the track.
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A common element is the use of shell companies, partnerships or foundations to hide the identities of those moving dirty money.
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The city was devastated by a smallpox outbreak that started with dirty money changing hands during the Black Friday shopping blitz.
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Former Diddy collaborator and Dirty Money member Dawn Richard continues her evolution as the afro-futuristic rapper and singer D∆WN.
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The roots of the problem lie in the go-go years before the crisis, when banks grew careless about dirty money.
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We should focus on the origin of the dirty money, while the public concern is focusing on later and lesser culprits.
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The Maltese government has also confirmed support for state-owned Bank of Valletta after its dirty-money shortfalls emerged last month .
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Money laundering entails blending "dirty" money into the financial mainstream through a series of transactions and legal entities that conceal its origin.
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People on social media have said you're using this aid container to smuggle drugs or that you're washing dirty money out there?
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The government's expressed determination to crack down on dirty money came on a day of rare good news in the poisoning attack.
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Another reason to think May might shy away from getting tough on dirty money: The economy is already in a fragile state.
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The agent's timing really couldn't be worse since Marty is working on moving the dirty money from Buddy's mausoleum into the casino.
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Britain's National Crime Agency estimates that around 1 billion pounds in dirty money moves into or through the United Kingdom every year.
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This funds much of the information and cyber warfare as well as dirty money and subversion that Moscow directs around the globe.
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One of its key objectives is to empower the central government to confiscate and appropriate properties acquired by money launderers with "dirty money".
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If the DNC truly stands up for women like they say they do, then returning Weinstein's dirty money should be a no-brainer.
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In Brazil, wood is frequently laundered the way dirty money in other countries is cleaned - by running it through legitimate businesses, Brindis said.
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After a stint in the Diddy-Dirty Money collective, Dawn struck out on her own, and the music world is better for it.
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The time has come for stricter "know-your-customer" rules and the blacklisting of countries that offer havens for migrants with dirty money.
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Unlike last year's Panama Papers, the latest trove of documents has not so far turned out to contain dirty money linked to corruption.
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Naomi Hirst, a campaigner at anti-corruption group Global Witness, said the announcement was a big step in the fight against dirty money.
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Dirty money About 80% of our cash carries cocaine -- and a whole lot of other icky, nasty things we'd rather not talk about.
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Hong Kong, however, maintains a reputation as a notorious hub for moving dirty money, with authorities in the city openly acknowledging the problem.
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Watching over it all is Martin Freeman, playing an FBI agent determined to stop all the dirty money being funneled into the business.
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Her campaign is focused on fighting corporate monopolies and dirty money, protecting the environment and cutting red tape for small businesses and farms.
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Could someone be framing him in order to steal his design for a security system that can be misused for laundering dirty money?
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There were lurid hints that top Mexican leaders might have been compromised by dirty money from the start of the trial in November.
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The E.U.'s rationale: "Dirty money is the lifeblood of organized crime and terrorism," Vera Jourova, the European commissioner for justice, said yesterday.
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A U.S. senator had asked the Justice Department to investigate Lesin, who he suspected of using dirty money to buy pricey California real estate.
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Make no mistake: If there were more digging, it's very possible that a dirty money trail would have led directly and indisputably to Park.
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Anyone looking to stash dirty money "should be in no doubt that we will come for them," warns Ben Wallace, the economic-crime minister.
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He's also ordered to forfeit $12.6 BILLION to the government as a result of the dirty money he made from his criminal drug enterprise.
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That's part of what makes Fahmi Quadir, the protagonist of "Drug Short", an episode in the acclaimed Netflix documentary series Dirty Money, so unusual.
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The nerve-agent attack sparked intense scrutiny of Russian malfeasance, including oligarchs' use of Britain and its offshore satellites to wash their dirty money.
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The country's top banking regulator recently warned online databases and programs like e-Residency have made Estonia vulnerable to dirty money and sanctions breaches.
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The 10 people arrested in December were alleged to have been part of a network that facilitated flows of dirty money through the branch.
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"Yes, it's true that the PP financed itself with dirty money in the 2007 election campaign events," Costa said during a televised court appearance.
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But beyond the familiar, sententious sport of Washington hypocrisy-spotting, it's pointless to deny that McDaniel is right: Weinstein's "dirty money" should be repudiated.
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Kolhatkar's "Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street" tells it depressingly well.
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A global dirty money watchdog on Friday placed Iran on its blacklist after the country failed to comply with international anti-terrorism financing norms.
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I could starve in a garret and remain creatively whole, while telling the Man to go f*^k himself — I didn't need his dirty money.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic Church does not want people to donate "dirty money" earned by abusing low-paid workers, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
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The anti-money laundering council was set up under the country's central bank to investigate illegal bank transfers and halt the flow of dirty money.
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In other words, London might be in too precarious of a position to really bring the heat against Russia by cracking down on dirty money.
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Sanders and Clinton are rock-solid united behind efforts to cleanse our democracy from the abuses of dirty money and reverse the Citizens United v.
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More important, the culture of our islands does not approve of hiding dirty money with a wink and a nudge while we take a large cut.
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The property market may well be attracting foreign criminals and corrupt officials seeking to launder dirty money, notes David Eby, the attorney-general of British Columbia.
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"You need money to take money," declares the provocative tagline of Netflix's Dirty Money, an upcoming documentary series about greed and corruption in massive, international companies.
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Commodities like iPhones are also popular -- criminals will buy them in bulk with dirty money and sell them at a steep discount, pocketing the clean money.
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Later that day, police released a statement saying that he had personally taken dirty money, leading many Brazilians to conclude that he would soon be indicted.
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When it comes to the US's role as a massive laundromat for dirty money, the Trump administration is simply continuing a trend years in the making.
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"We are concerned about the possibility that dirty money is being put into luxury real estate," Jennifer Shasky Calvery, a top Treasury Department official, told the paper.
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What caused it all is disputed, though some developers whisper that the return of dirty money from the West after the 2008 financial crash fuelled the frenzy.
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Four years after the Berlin Wall came down, an 'Ndrangheta agent was caught in eastern Europe laundering vast sums of dirty money: the equivalent today of $2.8bn.
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However, Da Band, B5, Day 26 and Diddy Dirty Money will all be at home -- or, at best, in the audience -- and there are some hurt feelings.
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This reflects voters' growing disillusion with the pace of change and what Nuland called "the unholy alliance of dirty money and dirty politics" still controlling the country.
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British lawmakers launched a new inquiry into money-laundering, sanctions and economic crime on Thursday, with a particular focus on properties bought with so-called "dirty money".
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The National Crime Agency estimated that £100 billion in "dirty money" was being funneled into Britain each year, mainly from Russian, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Far East.
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Adam Ramlugon, a lawyer who specializes in superyachts, said the legal obligations to avoid "dirty money" fall on regulated professions rather than on designers and builders themselves.
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Needless to say, Giuliani's beliefs were in direct contradiction to American policy, and undercut the ongoing effort to counter dirty money and corrupt practices throughout the West.
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"Dirty money is the lifeblood of organized crime and terrorism," Vera Jourova, the European commissioner for justice, said during a news conference in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
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As a result, it would become a welcome hub for Russian dirty money and dubious business deals, allowing Moscow some opportunities to bypass the effects of Western sanctions.
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" Money laundering is essentially finding a way to make the funds you've earned through illicit means appear to have been earned lawfully — to make the "dirty" money "clean.
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The result is hopelessly vague, diverting attention from dirty money to smear legitimate businesses, argues Maya Forstater of the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank in Washington.
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In plain English, it mandates that family members and associates who profit from the dirty money of those sanctioned feel the pain of frozen assets and denied visas.
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What's more, the then-president of the American Bar Association was caught on an undercover tape giving advice to an African dictator trying to hide his dirty money.
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The first season of Gibney's "Dirty Money" offered more bite-size episodes on other white-collar crimes, like the Volkswagen emissions scandal and HSBC's laundering of cartel money.
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"It's dirty money," Dr. Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a prominent proponent of vaccination, said of the ad Amazon ran.
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The appalling Carmelaesque hypocrisy of these institutions, masking their dependency on dirty money with flamboyant shows of identity sensitivity, shocks nobody because it is simply business as usual.
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Leaks in 2014 exposing the "Russian Laundromat", whereby $20.8bn was moved illicitly from Russia, suggest that dirty money flowed through Moldova and Latvia to 732 banks in 96 countries.
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For the most part, Dirty Money stays away from the social and political (the show includes some comments Trump has made about women, because there are just so many).
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's parliament passed a law that limits the amount of cash in the economy in an effort to fight against dirty money, economic crime and money laundering.
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Around 20 of the participating countries pledged to introduce or strengthen laws that will make it easier to seize and return assets that have been acquired with dirty money.
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That has prompted Andrea Enria, chief executive at the European Banking Authority, to back calls for a new pan-EU body dedicated to fighting the tide of dirty money.
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"The scale of damage that this 'dirty money' can do to UK foreign policy interests dwarfs the benefit of Russian transactions in the City," said committee chairman Tom Tugendhat.
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"Russia has long been associated with dirty money," said Elise Bean, a former top official on the U.S. Senate's leading investigative committee and veteran of several money-laundering investigations.
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Accepting gifts — especially naming gifts — from people with dubious sources of funds or close ties to despotic regimes encourages the view that dirty money can be cleansed by charity.
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And this weak part — this is the system of lobbyists, lawyers, PR firms who are very eager to take dirty money from the most corrupt people in the world.
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Dirty money scandals mired the 2017 parliamentary election, with the son of the governing party leader suspected of taking bribes in exchange for spots on the party's candidate list.
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That made it a convenient conduit for dirty money into the EU. Several small EU countries, like Cyprus and Malta, also have been accused of being used for money-laundering.
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For example, unlike banks, real estate agents in the United States are not required to notify authorities if they suspect a customer is trying to move dirty money through property.
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UWOs were brought in mainly to force foreign officials suspected of corruption and their families to account for their wealth, in a bid to stem dirty money flowing through Britain.
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The British authorities, who have been trying to clean up Britain's reputation as a haven for "dirty money," now have a tool to find the answer: an unexplained wealth order.
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Europe may never wield as big a stick as America does, but it could do with more than twigs in the fight against dirty money passing through its financial system. ■
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Aierken Saimaiti said his part in the racket had been to launder the proceeds, overseeing the removal from Kyrgyzstan of at least $700m in dirty money between 2011 and 2016.
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"These proposals for public registers will be welcomed by citizens and anti-corruption activists who want to follow the trail of dirty money," Laure Brillaud, Transparency International EU policy officer, said.
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Given this consensus, it stands to reason, then, that a big donor who supported the mainstreaming of Nazism and white nationalism would be a prime example of "dirty money" in politics.
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"In light of these allegations, it's time for Democrats to return Harvey Weinstein's dirty money," National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Matt Gorman said in a statement provided to The Hill.
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People talk about the nefarious ways that terrorists or drug smugglers use cryptocurrency, but what about all the money laundering and dirty money that already exists with our current, physical currency?
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Thank you Diddy / Puff Daddy / Sean Combs / Diddy Dirty Money / Bad Boy Records and the related entertainment family for bringing this drink into my life and an end to my evening.
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Deutsche Bank has repeatedly come under fire for not doing enough to avoid being a conduit for dirty money, and has had a series of embarrassing disclosures about sloppy screening procedures.
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Pamela PaulEditor of The New York Times Book Review BLACK EDGE: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street, by Sheelah Kolhatkar.
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It didn't take long for those tracking financial transparency to realize the bait-and-switch that had happened — and what it portended for where dirty money would suddenly start flocking to.
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This reflects voters' growing disillusion with the pace of change and what a top U.S. diplomat recently called "the unholy alliance of dirty money and dirty politics" still controlling the country.
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But having spent the best part of a year telling donors he doesn't want their dirty money, Trump has a bit of work to do to get them on his side.
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Carter's family has converted the capital they accumulated on the back of exploitation, and the next generation has gone on to convert it into cultural capital, dirty money sanitizing itself with 'cool.
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Britain's National Crime Agency, which tackles serious and organized crime, said in September it was stepping up efforts to tackle dirty money funneled into or through the United Kingdom by "corrupt elites".
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But the United States did not do enough to rein in corporate secrecy, presenting "serious gaps" in law enforcement efforts that leave the financial system "vulnerable" to dirty money, the report said.
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A parable about the contagious nature of corruption and the curse of dirty money, "1000 Rupee Note" asks, How valuable is a windfall to people who live their lives largely without money?
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"Londoners need reassuring that dirty money isn't flooding into our property market, and ministers must now make all property ownership in London transparent so we can see exactly who owns what," he said.
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Police in Cyprus have launched a criminal investigation into FBME Bank after BuzzFeed News exposed how it was awash with dirty money linked to the Kremlin, Syrian chemical weapons, organized crime, and ISIS.
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"We are concerned about the possibility that dirty money is being put into luxury real estate," said Ms. Calvery, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Treasury unit running the initiative.
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Too often, their programmes open a back door to dirty money; think of the ill-gotten Russian gains that have been laundered through Cyprus, one of the EU's most enthusiastic hawkers of passports.
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Though he was thinking of America's competitiveness rather than turning his country into a haven for dirty money, the words were surprising: America is better known for walloping tax-dodgers than welcoming them.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is significantly stepping up efforts to tackle the dirty money funneled by Russians and other "corrupt elites" into or through the United Kingdom, a senior police officer said on Friday.
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In a joint statement, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Latvia said the 2300-country EU needed a "central supervisor" to tackle the flow of dirty money within the bloc's financial system.
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"It has been claimed that the UK, particularly the London property market, is becoming a destination of choice to launder the proceeds of overseas crime and corruption – so-called 'dirty money,'" she added.
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Billed by some as a hero in a global fight against dirty money, Wilkinson said he felt he had "done something good for society" - but never wanted a lead role in the Danske drama.
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The FIAU has ten days to comply with the requirements, which include enhancing its monitoring of and sanction proceedings against banks, gaming companies and other sectors that could be used to launder dirty money.
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If one can stomach a re-examination of his pre-presidency days, his latter-day turn as a reality-television charlatan was preceded by a long career as a developer drenched in dirty money.
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In 2015, FinCEN, Treasury's anti-money-laundering agency labeled the bank a "primary money laundering concern," alleging that BPA executives had assisted Russian organized crime figures and corrupt foreign officials in moving dirty money.
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The British capital earned a nickname of "Londongrad" because it became the destination of choice for rich and middle class Russians, though Prime Minister Theresa May has indicated Britain will go after "dirty" money.
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If they want to help sex workers get medical treatment or stay out of jail or leave the streets entirely, then they, too, will have to make some agonizing choices, tainted by dirty money.
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"More and more states are recognizing that if we do not combat the flow of dirty money, tax evasion and corruption, we threaten the balance of public finances and the real economy," he said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers launched a new inquiry into money-laundering, sanctions and economic crime on Thursday, with a particular focus on properties bought with so-called "dirty money", amid growing tensions with Russia.
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British MPs have called on the government to create a database of politicians, public officials and others linked to corruption in an effort to reduce the amount of "dirty money" tainting the UK's financial system.
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Britain has said it will use new powers, called unexplained wealth orders (UWO), to seize the UK assets of foreign criminals and corrupt politicians and clamp down on dirty money washing through London, in particular.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will work with the financial industry to crack down on fraud, corruption and dirty money by launching a task force that will include senior banking figures, the finance ministry said on Monday.
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"In light of recent leaks revealing money laundering and tax crimes, it is ridiculous that Panama and other famous havens for dirty money are still not on the Commission's blacklist," Greens lawmaker Sven Giegold said.
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Sweden's oldest retail bank earlier this year dismissed its CEO and accepted the resignation of its chairman after its Estonian business was caught up in dirty money allegations that have engulfed Danish peer Danske Bank.
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"The president performed a spectacular about-turn and was forced to admit to the nation that his campaign received dirty money from Bosasa," Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the main opposition party, Democratic Alliance, said.
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Most recently, the bank has come under fire for its role as a conduit for dirty money that flowed through the Baltic branches of Danske Bank, a Danish lender embroiled in a money-laundering scandal.
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"Police investigations show [the company] and its CEO are accused of laundering and transferring dirty money between Canada and some European countries, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States," the Twitter account claimed.
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LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Britain is significantly stepping up efforts to tackle the dirty money funnelled by Russians and other "corrupt elites" into or through the United Kingdom, a senior police officer said on Friday.
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Led by ideologues like the DeVos family and the Koch Brothers and suddenly unleashed by the disaster of Citizens United, they swamped our elections with dirty money while propping up reactionary right-wing protest movements.
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Such demands, issued by museum staffers and activists alike, have wrought a new moral dilemma upon cultural institutions: How can a museum finance their exhibitions without accepting what the public might perceive as dirty money?
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As part of the same push to strengthen EU defences against dirty money, the EBA warned national supervisors on Wednesday that money-laundering shortfalls could imperil banks' financial stability, urging them to take more preventive measures.
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Criminals around the world have discovered that a good way to liberate their dirty money is to send it to China, which is emerging as an international hub for money laundering, an AP investigation has found.
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As part of the same push to strengthen EU defenses against dirty money, the EBA warned national supervisors on Wednesday that money-laundering shortfalls could imperil banks' financial stability, urging them to take more preventive measures.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Prosecutors from more than a dozen countries joined forces on Wednesday at a landmark summit aiming to boost the global fight against modern slavery by convicting more criminals and tracing dirty money.
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Now, the US government is looking to claw some of that money back—and, in a bizarre turn of events—wants Hollywood to fork over millions in assets the DOJ says were purchased with dirty money.
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In the House of Commons the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), which I chair, has repeatedly said that dirty money menaces our national security because it corrupts our friends, weakens our alliances and erodes faith in our institutions.
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No one knows how much dirty money is rinsed through London, but Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) reckons British banks and their subsidiaries (including those in overseas territories) launder "many hundreds of billions of pounds" each year.
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Back when Richard was part of the group Dirty Money with Diddy and singer Kalenna, she alleged record producer Iovine asked a boardroom of 50 people why the band didn't have two light-skinned women singers instead.
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"We are seeking to understand the risk that corrupt foreign officials, or transnational criminals, may be using premium U.S. real estate to secretly invest millions in dirty money," FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery said in a statement.
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But they also underscore how tax havens are used by covert agencies and other shadowy players to launder dirty money, a practice that has a long history in which Panama, in particular, has played a notable part.
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And as the New York Times revealed this week, there are hours of unreleased, closed-door Congressional testimony about the Trump family's long-standing links to Russian criminals who needed their dirty money laundered via real estate.
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London has long attracted corrupt foreign money, especially from Russia, Nigeria, Pakistan, former Soviet states and Asia, and the NCA estimates that around 100 billion pounds of dirty money is moved through or into Britain each year.
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Voting separately, the House of Representatives and Senate passed on third and final readings similar bills expanding the existing anti-money laundering act to improve the legal framework against dirty money, making it compliant with global standards.
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From show stoppin' as part of girl group Danity Kane (and then as part of Diddy Dirty Money) to show running as a solo act, D∆WN aka Dawn Richard finally found her niche within experimental electronica.
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Despite facing a Republican candidate with a history of mob ties, dirty money, and shady business deals involving even shadier regimes abroad, Clinton spent most of her time talking about what a shitty guy Donald Trump was.
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The bank supervisor has accused the Riga government of interfering in his work and said the legal changes, which also grant the regulator more power to close banks with "dirty money", were a veiled attempt to oust him.
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In an interview with Reuters, Krisjanis Karins said he would take earlier reforms a step further and change rules on management appointments at the country's banking regulator, while granting it the power to close banks with "dirty money".
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Cornelius Vanderbilt and Leland Stanford each used significant portions of their personal wealth to found idealistic universities, while John D. Rockefeller donated millions to education and scientific research amid criticism that good deeds couldn't clean his dirty money.
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A backdoor for organized crime The rapidly growing and unregulated casino industry in Southeast Asia has, in essence, emerged as a backdoor for organized crime to launder their growing supply of dirty money into the global financial system.
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FRANKFURT — The United States assailed the European Union on Wednesday for adding American territories to its "dirty money" list, opening a new rift in a relationship that has grown increasingly fractious amid disputes over trade and Iran sanctions.
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The DOJ (technically the US Attorney's Office) alleges that all assets seized are the fruits of the crime because the FIFA executives used dirty money to buy real estate and expensive big ticket items like cars and watches.
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"If Democrats and the DNC truly stand up for women like they say they do, then returning this dirty money should be a no brainer," she said in a statement the day the first allegations against Weinstein were reported.
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Opponents of the peace deal also argued that the government negotiators were greenlighting former FARC fighters, who financed much of their war by doubling up as cocaine traffickers, to boost their new careers in electoral politics with dirty money.
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PARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A global dirty money watchdog said on Friday it had given Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to comply with international norms after which it would urge all its members to apply counter-measures.
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I also hope he starts printing dollar signs on sturdy burlap bags so bank robbers, bookies, counterfeiters, bootleggers, jewel thieves, con men, and other old-school criminals can finally have appropriately marked bags to put their dirty money in.
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"Trill" is the most foreign beat on an album full of confounding experiments; on the opposite end of the spectrum, "Dirty Money" sounds like the villain's theme from the kind of B-movie you watch in a dilapidated motel.
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"The glacial pace of progress by the federal, provincial and territorial governments is an invitation to the corrupt, tax evaders and money launderers to continue 'snow-washing' their dirty money in Canada." warned Transparency International Executive Director Alesia Nahirny.
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When Harvey Weinstein, a major Democratic Party donor as well as an important Hollywood producer, was exposed as a serial sexual harasser and assaulter, Republicans were fast out of the gates with demands that Democrats return Weinstein's dirty money.
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Also, Putin's cronies and other Russian oligarchs — whose game is to make tons of dirty money in Russia and then take it to London, where it can be laundered for safekeeping — are now getting more scrutinized than ever by British authorities.
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Trump's former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was allegedly the recipient of millions of dollars in dirty money payments from a Russian proxy party in Ukraine, money that Manafort would have had to try to launder to actually make use of.
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John Milner, head of business crime and fraud at law firm IBB Solicitors, said this was a step in the right direction in tackling what he called Britain's "unenviable and growing reputation as a soft touch for laundering dirty money".
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Wednesday more should be done to counter the multi-billion-euro flow of dirty money in the European Union as major shortcomings have emerged in the way banks and governments handle the issue.
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In 2007, back when Nicki Minaj wasn't NICKI MINAJ, she had a song called "Dirty Money" on her mixtape Playtime Is Over where she references a "bitch with the crown" to the tune of "Yeah Yeah Yeah" by Terror Squad.
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Federal rules are designed to protect the U.S. financial system from being used as a safe haven for dirty money and transnational crimes, Jennifer Shasky Calvery, then-director of the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen), said at the time.
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On top of performances this weekend in New York and Montreal to celebrate her new Infrared EP, the former Danity Kane and Diddy Dirty Money member turned experimental chanteuse has shared a fierce fashion video in addition to two new tracks.
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The result is that one set of international policy goals, designed to choke off flows of dirty money, is undermining another, equally important set of goals, designed to foster development through increased remittances, financial inclusion and support for fragile states.
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In a report released at the end of April, Hong Kong rates its ability to fight dirty money flows as "medium-high," citing its strong legal system, political commitment to the issue, and cooperation between the public and private sectors.
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And sixth, Democrats should promote a wave of highly popular state ballot initiatives for 2018 to mobilize Democratic turnout, such as raising the minimum wage, equal pay for women, legalizing marijuana, restoring voting rights and cleansing politics of dirty money.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The global dirty money watchdog's decision on Friday to place Iran on its blacklist will have no impact on the country's foreign trade, state news agency IRNA quoted head of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati as saying.
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But as the Zetas' dirty money flows toward him through a series of straw men and corporate fronts, José — with Agent Lawson on his tail — is quickly swept away into the rollicking and hay-scented world of western quarter-horse racing.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Iran has until October to meet international standards against money-laundering and terror financing or face more international scrutiny, the a global dirty money watchdog said on Friday but called on countries to keep closer tabs on Iranian banks.
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Though early in her career Minaj lauded fellow female rapper Remy Ma, their "friendship" all but ended in July 1 after a then-budding Minaj released her "Dirty Money" freestyle, targeting a fellow female rapper, which Remy Ma felt could be her.
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" Delaware is "a haven for transnational crime," according to the anti-corruption group Transparency International, because "extreme corporate secrecy enables corrupt people, shady companies, drug traffickers, embezzlers and fraudsters to cover their tracks when shifting dirty money from one place to another.
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BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Wednesday more should be done to counter the multi-billion-euro flow of dirty money in the European Union as major shortcomings have emerged in the way banks and governments handle the issue.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is expected to secure a handful of unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) in the next few months as the authorities step up their efforts to target "dirty money" that flows through the country, a senior police officer said on Tuesday.
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News of the research — reported by The New York Times on Thursday and portrayed by an episode of the documentary "Dirty Money" that began airing on Netflix on Friday — quickly developed into a public relations disaster for the companies: Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW.
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Britain: The High Court is beginning to issue unexplained wealth orders, which require individuals to account for their finances above a certain level, in an effort to clean up the country's reputation as a haven for "dirty money" often belonging to foreign nationals.
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"There is no evidence beyond the rhetoric that the [UK] government has ever been serious about tackling dirty money — quite the contrary, in fact," James Nixey, the head of the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, a London think tank, told me.
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But while the US targeted dirty money — and those enabling its flow — abroad, it simultaneously rejiggered its own finance-sharing regulations to try to attract much of that same money, turning the US into a behemoth in the world of tax havens.
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DUBAI, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The global dirty money watchdog's decision on Friday to place Iran on its blacklist will have no impact on the country's foreign trade, state news agency IRNA quoted head of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati as saying.
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But their reputation has been damaged by allegations against Danske Bank, which closed its operations in the Baltics this year based on evidence that subsidiaries there had for years helped Russian oligarchs and corrupt politicians to convert dirty money into seemingly clean dollars.
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But hey: Maybe someone can just turn the place into a museum about how it wound up in the hands of a supposedly dead Ukrainian grifter who allegedly laundered a shit ton of dirty money, now that it needs a new owner.
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The designers at Hipgnosis decided to play with the album's title rather than the weight of the band itself: The art shows a man washing his well-manicured hands over a sink with marble countertops, in a moment of luxury after having handled dirty money.
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"The UK is taking a leading role in the global fight against corruption, including cracking down on the use of shell companies to launder dirty money by buying up some of London's prime real estate," Andrew Griffiths, a junior business minister said in a statement.
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"Payday" - The corruption of payday lenders "Drug Short" - Wall Street and Big Pharma"Cartel Bank" - HSBC laundering money for Mexican drug cartels"The Maple Syrup Heist" - A Canadian maple syrup mystery that somehow leads back to cartels Dirty Money premieres on Netflix Jan. 26.
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Wilkinson said that he had been offered cash by Danske Bank not to speak out, but had got a waiver last month allowing him to talk to some U.S. authorities, adding that he did not expect investigations into the "dirty money" to bear fruit.
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Toon said Britain was a very attractive destination for corrupt foreign money, especially from Russia, Nigeria, Pakistan, former Soviet states and the Far East, and the NCA estimates that some 100 billion pounds of dirty money is moved through or into Britain each year.
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Tech leaders made screens so addictive that they won't let their own children use them; they operate in a monoculture that reflects only itself and turns a blind eye to sexual harassment and diversity; and they accept dirty money from unsavory investors like the Saudis.
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Since I've been insulting the Saudis and everybody else so much for their dirty money, I think I would not want to fly on their airline because I think I'd be flown somewhere ... Would you want Amazon to give you and your family your health insurance?
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But whatever his knowledge about the source of his wealth, the public record makes clear that Trump built his business empire in no small part with a lot of dirty money from a lot of dirty Russians—including the dirtiest and most feared of them all.
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority referred 26 law firms for disciplinary action, saying they had not done enough to manage the risk of their clients laundering funds, as the government seeks to crack down on the billions of pounds of dirty money estimated to flow through London.
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When he made a mistake, as he did when he was embroiled in the Keating Five scandal, he took full responsibility, learned a noble and brilliant lesson, and forever thereafter championed the timeless truth that dirty money must never be allowed to corrupt and corrode our democracy.
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In a moment as theatrical as any boardroom ceremony in "The Apprentice," he has the studio turn off the lights for the big reveal: in the darkness, the Prime Minister's face and hands light up in bioluminescent green, stained from where he touched the dirty money.
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As the report points out, there are many things besides sanctions that should be part of a comprehensive American strategy, including helping to strengthen democratic institutions in vulnerable European countries, exposing and freezing Kremlin-linked dirty money and building a coalition to counter Russian hybrid threats.
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China and Hong Kong are emerging as a global hub for money laundering, with criminals from around the world slipping their dirty money into the region's great tides of legitimate trade and finance, taking advantage of entrenched corruption and informal banking channels that date back over 22015,000 years.
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"We need to take action on all fronts to target the corrupt fraudsters who are lining their pockets with dirty money and living luxury lifestyles at the expense of law-abiding citizens," said interior minister Sajid Javid, who will jointly chair the task force with finance minister Philip Hammond.
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Where to see it Netflix, which currently features a handful of other titles relevant to Pose, including the documentary The Death and Life of Marsha Johnson (about a drag pioneer) and the Dirty Money episode "The Confidence Man" (about how President Donald Trump cemented his brand during the wealth-obsessed '80s).
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The idea of a nameless grungy psychopath burning piles of dirty money, throwing a city into chaos to satisfy his twisted rage, was a perfect avatar for a generation of Occupy-adjacent millennials graduating into a global economic recession and harnessing technology to claw back control of their own lives.
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In one astonishing incident, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, who pleaded guilty to his crimes and later became a witness against his two colleagues, is said to have staged the break-in of a safe, captured it on video, and then pretended that he and his unit had just recovered $100,000 in dirty money.
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Banks and regulatory authorities should do their due diligence and not accept dirty money — both the United States investigations and the French court have indicated that it was not possible for the Riggs Bank or the Central Bank of France to be unaware of the evidence of Mr. Obiang's ill-gotten wealth.
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In Britain, those ploys include the tax-minimization schemes of companies like Starbucks and Amazon and are symbolized by the corrupt officials — Nigerian ministers, ex-Soviet insiders, deposed Middle Eastern politicians — who launder their stolen cash and besmirched reputations through British institutions, spending their dirty money on high-end real estate in London.
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Klobuchar, Harris and Brown — like Kennedy and O'Rourke — are voices for income equality, ending the corruption of dirty money in politics, the competent use of government to better the lives of our people and national security policies that defend America from the attack against democracy that is now coming from Russia and China.
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He rattles off a couple other finance books he likes: "Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street" by Sheelah Kolhatkar; "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty; and "Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story" by Greg Smith.
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"We are determined to drive dirty money and the money launderers out of the UK and we will use all the powers we have ... to clamp down on those who threaten our security," he said adding that since the Proceeds of Crime Act was introduced 2.2 billion pounds ($2.95 billion) has been taken off criminals.
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Whereas the domestic provision looks rearward -- focusing on the source of the money being laundered, in other words, the proceeds of illegal activity (otherwise known as "dirty money") -- the international one looks forward, making it an offense to use money derived from any source, legal or illegal, to promote a specified crime in the future.
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" Marshall Billingslea, an assistant secretary at Treasury, visited Riga last month to again press officials to curtail Latvia's shady nonresident banks and assure them that Washington has evidence that ABLV not only laundered dirty money but "used bribery to influence Latvian officials when challenging enforcement actions and perceived threats to their high-risk business.
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And with so many mobbed-up crooks lined up to enlist Rudy Giuliani's services to bend Trump's ear, there has arguably never been a better time to be a member of the kleptocratic elite trying to milk hydrocarbon companies, bilk citizens and investigators alike, and sop up every drop of dirty money they can.
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Just when the Silk Road's saga of dirty money and double-dealing seemed to be winding down, one of the federal agents who investigated the site has added an audacious footnote: What looks like a brazen attempt to flee the United States after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for corruption in his handling of the case.
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Years earlier, when faced with a slew of charges, Rubin became a cooperator and helped the government take down Charles M. Hallinan, the so-called godfather of payday lending, a lawyer who worked for both men, and Scott Tucker, a loan mogul who drove a race car and was featured in the Netflix series Dirty Money.
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Also, while Indonesia's capital city Jakarta might be looking all bright and shiny from its recent infrastructure redevelopment for the 2018 Asian Games and its economy is steady and set to grow, Indonesia, like most countries in the world today, is facing climate change woes, burning forests, excessive private wealth, corruption, dirty money, security threats, and conservatism.
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Luke Harding, a foreign correspondent for The Guardian, will release "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win" this week, and Michael Wolff is working on "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," an up close look at the current administration based on interviews with Mr. Trump and many members of his senior staff.
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One is that there's been dirty money here for a long time, whether it was Russian money, and the fact that it's not just Saudi money, it's all kinds of money from the Middle East, that is really problematic, not just sovereign wealth but individual wealth, because there's so many wealthy people, they just washed into this area.
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Her book, "Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street," is a richly reported, entertaining tale about the cat-and-mouse game between the government and Cohen — much of which played out in the news media — for the greater part of the last decade, if not longer.
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Laundering schemes use Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs) and Limited Partnerships (LPs), both two types of businesses often owned by legitimate firms, as a way to pass dirty money through the U.K. It also said that five men were responsible for over half of 8,800 "limited partnership" businesses registered between January 2016 and May 2017, with 17,000 companies registered at just 10 addresses.
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Having spent a career working for and with Democratic leaders and writing columns published in the major media I am a charter member of some wing of the political establishment — even though I have written in columns and said on television that, in my view, this establishment has become corrupted by the stench of dirty money and the stain of special interests.
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" Steele is quoted as saying in Harding's new book, "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE Win.
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Clinton should ask voters for a mandate for change to bring a higher standard of politics, restore the civic spirit of a nation rooted in the American idea of a shared community of diverse citizens, and fix rigged financial and political systems dominated by corruptions of dirty money she will change by overturning the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court.
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Related: The DEA Is Reportedly Investigating an Aide to Peru's Keiko Fujimori Over Dirty Money It even emerged in a leaked police report that he had claimed to have lost all the documentation that would prove his business success was legitimate in a taxi fire in 2014 — one week after Peruvian prosecutors had launched their own probe into his alleged asset-laundering.
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Not only a domestic issue, major profits from large-scale illegal activities mean the Mafia has infiltrated many parts of the wider legitimate economy in Italy and Europe, laundering its "dirty money" in real estate investments and participation in public and private contracts, "particularly in the field of construction, public utilities and waste disposal," according to a 2016 report by Eurojust, the European Union's judicial cooperation agency.
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While the US has been busy over the past decade making headlines for slapping debilitating fines on foreign banks actively participating in money laundering, all while prying open offshore jurisdictions like Switzerland, a lesser-known transformation has taken root in the US. After all, all that dirty money the US targeted elsewhere — in Latvia, in Estonia, in Germany — had to find a new home somewhere.
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"Recent events seemed to have propelled some much-needed new impetus into the UK's fight against dirty money and we very much welcome the Treasury Committee holding this inquiry," said Duncan Hames, Director of Policy at Transparency International UK. London has been a prime venue for rich Russians to buy property and the inflow of Russian money has led to the capital being nicknamed "Londongrad".
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Even though Weinstein wasn't an elected official (like Moore) or someone endorsed by Democrats (as Moore is by Donald Trump and other Republicans), and was just another rich guy whose money the party wanted, the GOP nonetheless tried its best to use the sexual abuse allegations to tar Democrats, publishing lists of Democrats who received Weinstein's "dirty money" and hammering the point in blog posts and supporter emails.
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"The Confidence Man," a swift, brutal overview of Mr. Trump's business career, argues that he had been doing the same thing with his image for decades: He wasn't a business titan so much as he played one on TV. The film, directed by Fisher Stevens ("Bright Lights"), is the last episode of a six-part anthology, "Dirty Money," from the filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"), arriving Friday.
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Kaleniuk: I think it is insulting to Ukraine because when we try to expose corruption in Ukraine, when we name and blame public officials who are corrupt, and at the end we see them buying influence in the United States, buying connections to decision-makers in the United States, it indicates that basically the most corrupt people in Ukraine can whitewash their reputation, simply pouring their dirty money into into the United States.
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Minaj and the Terror Squad rapper have been feuding for years — Minaj supposedly dissed Remy Ma on her track "Dirty Money" off a 22 EP, in which she raps, "Tell that bitch with the crown to run it like Chris Brown" while sampling one of Ma's Terror Squad songs "Yeah Yeah Yeah" — but their rivalry reached another level in February when Ma dropped "ShETHER," a 20163-minute long diss track in which she accused Minaj of everything from infidelity to getting plastic surgery, which promptly set the Internet on fire and blew up the charts.
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