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A $2M check, Harry Reid and one frustrated prosecutor
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 12/11/2016 | TOM HARVEY AND JENNIFER DOBNER

Posted on 12/11/2016 1:33:09 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys

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To: DaxtonBrown
NBC sure canceled this quick -- more than a few of them wearing the ads. I would often run across this show way back. Seemed like everybody was in on it. Then, there's Chris Ferguson .... I read about that one 4 to 6 months ago in some article I came across. This looks kinda Photoshopped so not sure if this is accurate but I remember a couple of guys or more with their hats.


21 posted on 12/11/2016 3:43:52 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: BenLurkin

You know, a lot of this nonsense would stop if somebody like Harry Reid was arrested, tried, convicted and executed on national TV


22 posted on 12/11/2016 3:47:09 PM PST by Walrus (2 Thessalonians 3, 10-12)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

That’s how an ugly little guy from Searchlight, NV, can wind up a multimillionaire by being a “public servant.” That’s why we desperately need the term limits bill that Ted Cruz is sponsoring. No one should spend decades selling favors while in office.


23 posted on 12/11/2016 4:00:26 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: LiberalismDestroys

All Mormons should hang their collective heads in shame that this man is still a member in good standing of their church. By Reid’s religious standards, Romney is “righteous!”


24 posted on 12/11/2016 4:28:33 PM PST by vette6387
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To: vette6387

I believe Harry new of Howard Hughes’ trust of Mormons to do no wrong, and he thought joining would give him cover. He joined the Mormon church in college... who does that?


25 posted on 12/11/2016 6:57:10 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys
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To: LiberalismDestroys

Who would spell knew as new.


26 posted on 12/11/2016 6:58:27 PM PST by LiberalismDestroys
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To: LiberalismDestroys; Fedora

A Marshall Islands account? The Marshall Islands is apparently also where Putin’s yacht is registered, if reports are true that the crew is mostly made up of FSO/ Russian Secret Service, and they fly in and out of Italy fairly often between stints.


27 posted on 03/21/2022 5:27:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: LiberalismDestroys; Fedora

A Marshall Islands account? The Marshall Islands is apparently also where Putin’s yacht is registered, if reports are true that the crew is mostly made up of FSO/ Russian Secret Service, and they fly in and out of Italy fairly often between stints.


28 posted on 03/21/2022 5:27:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: LiberalismDestroys

A Marshall Islands account? The Marshall Islands is apparently also where Putin’s yacht is registered, if reports are true that the crew is mostly made up of FSO/ Russian Secret Service, and they fly in and out of Italy fairly often between stints.


29 posted on 03/21/2022 5:27:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Might both have been using Marshall Islands for money laundering.

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https://ocindex.net/country/marshall_islands

There is a high risk of money laundering. . .

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https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/389888/marshall-islands-boots-out-companies-implicated-in-russian-scandal

Marshall Islands boots out companies implicated in Russian scandal
4:09 pm on 23 May 2019

Giff Johnson

Two Marshall Islands-registered corporations associated with what has been reported as possibly the “biggest money-laundering scheme in history” had their corporate registrations revoked by the Trust Company of the Marshall Islands this week.

CBS News aired a feature Sunday on its 60 Minutes show about an estimated $US230 billion money-laundering scheme where money in the form of Russian rubles was exchanged for US dollars and moved by customers of the Danske Bank branch in Estonia, a former Soviet republic, at the rate of up to 20 million rubles a day.

The high volume of money being exchanged by bank customers led Howard Wilkinson, a British citizen working at the Danske Bank branch in Estonia, to check the company registration of the primary UK firm involved.

For $US1.30, Wilkinson purchased the financial statements of the company, Lantana Trade LLP, from the UK government business registration website.

But this described Lantana as “dormant,” meaning the company was not doing any business, but Wilkinson knew that Lantana was moving as much as 20 million rubles a day through Dankse branch where he worked.

“The public documents raised other suspicions,” according to the CBS report. “Lantana seemed to be a British company in name only with a postal address in an unremarkable office building in North London, that it shared with at least 64 other shell companies with accounts at Danske Bank Estonia and connections to remote exotic places known for banking secrecy and money laundering.”

“So, we’ve got a UK company with a registered office in North London with an account in an Estonian bank that’s actually run by Russians and the partners, the owners, are from the Seychelles and the Marshall Islands,” he said.

The Trust Company of the Marshall Islands is the local managing arm of International Registries Inc, a Reston, Virginia-based firm that manages the Marshall Islands corporate and ship registries. The nation’s ship registry is the second largest behind Panama.

Trust Company Manager James Myazoe said on Wednesday that he had not received any official inquiries from the United States related to this news story.

But, he added, “the two Marshall Islands entities that were found to be associated with Lantana Trade LLP were immediately forcibly annulled”.

The two companies that lost their Marshall Islands business licenses were Formond Inc and Primecross Inc.


30 posted on 03/21/2022 5:48:27 PM PDT by Fedora
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