Tag Archives: Money Laundering

A Full-Service Bank: R. Allen Stanford and the CIA

antifascist-calling.blogspot.com In a scandal-plagued era such as ours, scarred by murderous wars, occupations and corruption that would make a Roman emperor blush, accused crooks have names; even juiced ones like R. Allen Stanford. Last year, when a federal court in Texas handed down indictments charging Stanford International Bank (SIB) and its officers with “orchestrating a [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

Yemen | Russia | Noriega Yemen: • READ: Russia To Sell One Billion Dollars Worth Of Arms To Yemen Russia: • READ: Russia and US ‘planning spy swap’ Russian nuclear researcher Igor Sutyagin could be freed in exchange for alleged agents held in US, his brother says. Russia and America are orchestrating a spy swap, [...]
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4.2 billion dollars have left Kabul airport: report

AFP LONDON — At least 4.2 billion dollars in cash have left Kabul airport in the past three-and-a-half years, a newspaper said Tuesday, raising fresh concerns about corruption in war-torn Afghanistan.
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US Embassy in Iraq missing property worth millions

Matthew Lee/AP WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of dollars in federal property is missing or unaccounted for at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest U.S. diplomatic mission abroad, according to an internal State Department audit released Wednesday.
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