Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These are legal entities that don't have physical plants or operations, but can be used for holding and moving money.
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Shell companies also meant that the political system in the US was a wash in secrecy.
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It's illegal for foreigners to contribute to our campaigns, one Democrat reminded Congress in a speech for the bill.
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But if you launder your money through a front company with anonymous ownership, there's very little we can do to stop you.
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One of the documents flagged how much Russian money was flowing into the US in twenty sixteen through Deutsche Bank.
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The US was the easiest place in the world for criminals to form an anonymous shell company, enabling them to launder money, evade taxes, and engage in illegal payoff schemes.
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Trump's fixer Michael Cohen used a shell company to pay off adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep her from taking the story of her sexual encounter with Trump public before the 2016 election.
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So Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act to undercut the shell companies that enabled money laundering in America.
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The act required the owners of any company that was not otherwise overseen by the federal government, by filing taxes, for example, or through close regulation, to file a report that identifies each person associated with the company who either owns twenty five percent or more of it or exercises substantial control over it.
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That report, including name, birth date, address, and an identifying number, would go to FinCEN.
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The measure also increased penalties for money laundering and streamlined cooperation between banks and foreign law enforcement authorities.
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The plan was to pull the rug out from both domestic and international criminals that take advantage of shell companies to hide from investigators.
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The measure passed on a bipartisan basis.
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Then Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, now Secretary of State, co sponsored it, calling it the most significant anti corruption and money laundering law in decades.
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Now the Treasury Department says it will not collect the information the law requires, raising the question of whether the Trump administration is openly refusing to implement a law.
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August fourteenth, twenty twenty six.
Today the Trump administration asked the United States Supreme Court to let it build Trump's ballroom where the east wing of the White House used to be.
Trump ignored Congress and its authority over government building projects when he tore down the East Wing and began construction of a ninety thousand square foot ballroom on the site.
He claimed initially that there would be no cost to taxpayers for what he estimated to be a two hundred million dollar project.
Already, estimates have risen to at least nine hundred million dollars to be covered primarily by taxpayers.
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