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cpr4life8 OP t1_j056o2p wrote

"While there is no record of Senate sessions on the bill, advocates say the key issues over the roles of enablers, including financial advisors and others who set up trusts and other conduits to take in shadowy money, has been debated for decades.

The alarm over enablers — or go-betweens — in moving the money has led to “thousands of hours of congressional discussions,” said Nate Sibley, a research fellow with the Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative.

He said the troubling concerns about people who help kleptocrats and others secretly plow their money into the US dates as far back as 9/11, but the most recent surge to pass reforms was triggered by explosive reporting in the Washington Post and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists which showed how the U.S. has increasingly become one of the world’s foremost havens for dirty dollars."

It's been discussed.

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Redlar t1_j07ny4a wrote

>the U.S. has increasingly become one of the world’s foremost havens for dirty dollars."

Looks like we're taking over for the UK

The UK made it so the rich (only non-citizens iirc) have to prove their assets have not been bought with ill-gotten gains.

They've had a laundered money problem for quite a while and had turned a blind eye because, of course, it was good for business

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trxrider500 t1_j0576k0 wrote

”advocates say”

Yeah, I bet they do.

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cpr4life8 OP t1_j057dm2 wrote

Well at least we know we can trust the party that tried to overthrow the fucking government. Jfc dude, get real. This is a real problem that has been a problem for decades and has been discussed for decades and there has been no action. And fuck head Toomey just shit all over it knowing that the GOP is taking control of the house.

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ktappe t1_j05q7hh wrote

Maybe you could read the bill for yourself? Stop criticizing advocates without knowing what they actually are advocating for.

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