Dr. Jodi Vittori
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With, you know, enabling, further enabling crypto, saying you're not going to enforce anti-corruption laws, gutting various asset finance, asset forfeiture and other task forces that have now been dissolved by the attorney general. The golden passport thing is not really helping the situation in that regard because you're... Like, hey, pay me off and you can have U.S.
With, you know, enabling, further enabling crypto, saying you're not going to enforce anti-corruption laws, gutting various asset finance, asset forfeiture and other task forces that have now been dissolved by the attorney general. The golden passport thing is not really helping the situation in that regard because you're... Like, hey, pay me off and you can have U.S.
With, you know, enabling, further enabling crypto, saying you're not going to enforce anti-corruption laws, gutting various asset finance, asset forfeiture and other task forces that have now been dissolved by the attorney general. The golden passport thing is not really helping the situation in that regard because you're... Like, hey, pay me off and you can have U.S.
citizenship and all the rights and protections that are actually that go with it. But even before that, there were concerns. The reasons the United States was already at the top. It was the easiest place to form anonymous shell companies, anonymous trusts, et cetera. It was the loopholes for being able to evade tax and stuff are already incredibly high.
citizenship and all the rights and protections that are actually that go with it. But even before that, there were concerns. The reasons the United States was already at the top. It was the easiest place to form anonymous shell companies, anonymous trusts, et cetera. It was the loopholes for being able to evade tax and stuff are already incredibly high.
citizenship and all the rights and protections that are actually that go with it. But even before that, there were concerns. The reasons the United States was already at the top. It was the easiest place to form anonymous shell companies, anonymous trusts, et cetera. It was the loopholes for being able to evade tax and stuff are already incredibly high.
Those shell companies and through other means, but also things like tax sharing, information sharing. So when you filed your taxes, assuming you did it since we just passed tax day, you had to file whether you had any overseas bank accounts.
Those shell companies and through other means, but also things like tax sharing, information sharing. So when you filed your taxes, assuming you did it since we just passed tax day, you had to file whether you had any overseas bank accounts.
Those shell companies and through other means, but also things like tax sharing, information sharing. So when you filed your taxes, assuming you did it since we just passed tax day, you had to file whether you had any overseas bank accounts.
The United States, with Switzerland in particular, was something called Swiss Leaks in 2016, where they found all these Americans are hiding their money in Switzerland. They require countries, they put a lot of pressure on companies to send the information on bank accounts of American citizens to the U.S. But the United States doesn't share that information with other countries in return.
The United States, with Switzerland in particular, was something called Swiss Leaks in 2016, where they found all these Americans are hiding their money in Switzerland. They require countries, they put a lot of pressure on companies to send the information on bank accounts of American citizens to the U.S. But the United States doesn't share that information with other countries in return.
The United States, with Switzerland in particular, was something called Swiss Leaks in 2016, where they found all these Americans are hiding their money in Switzerland. They require countries, they put a lot of pressure on companies to send the information on bank accounts of American citizens to the U.S. But the United States doesn't share that information with other countries in return.
So what that did is become... Well, open all your bank accounts in the States and get an anonymous shell company, get an anonymous address. You can't just directly open an anonymous shell company into a U.S. bank. It's not quite that easy because banks have rules under the bank secrecy law and so forth.
So what that did is become... Well, open all your bank accounts in the States and get an anonymous shell company, get an anonymous address. You can't just directly open an anonymous shell company into a U.S. bank. It's not quite that easy because banks have rules under the bank secrecy law and so forth.
So what that did is become... Well, open all your bank accounts in the States and get an anonymous shell company, get an anonymous address. You can't just directly open an anonymous shell company into a U.S. bank. It's not quite that easy because banks have rules under the bank secrecy law and so forth.
But you can use that as an ability to put money in hedge funds or other areas to launder your money. And so if you're a Swiss citizen... That information isn't going to be shared back to Switzerland. If you're an American citizen with a bank account in Switzerland, that information is going to come to the US government.
But you can use that as an ability to put money in hedge funds or other areas to launder your money. And so if you're a Swiss citizen... That information isn't going to be shared back to Switzerland. If you're an American citizen with a bank account in Switzerland, that information is going to come to the US government.
But you can use that as an ability to put money in hedge funds or other areas to launder your money. And so if you're a Swiss citizen... That information isn't going to be shared back to Switzerland. If you're an American citizen with a bank account in Switzerland, that information is going to come to the US government.
If you're a Swiss citizen hiding your money in the United States, that's not going to go to the Swiss government. So that started bringing in, that made the United States an even better place to launder their money.
If you're a Swiss citizen hiding your money in the United States, that's not going to go to the Swiss government. So that started bringing in, that made the United States an even better place to launder their money.