[PGR88]

I don't know Buzzfeed's politics, but this is written as what I call a typical "leftist" article - highly emotive and subjective, strong on using anecdote and feeling as fact - what some call "narrative journalism."

It spent many paragraphs confirming the supposed injustice of her sentence, the effect on her family, even what she ate for dinner - but literally ONE SENTENCE on her crime

Edwards....revealed how banks file SARs and then continue to process and profit off suspicious payments, thereby facilitating criminal activity while enriching themselves and shareholders. The US government collects the SARs, but does not force the banks to shut the money laundering down.

I am not an expert in SAR or Treasury money laundering, but I assume "suspicious" is just that - nothing is proven, so the banks turn it over to the authorities to investigate. This article deals NOTHING with the objective facts of this case.

[Aevery_Freeman]

SAR's (auspicious activity reports) are supposedly used to stop the laundering of drug money but often flag innocent money transfers.

I drew one after transferring 50K from one bank to another.

Our government, as well as others, are the ones conducting the drug trade.

Do you really think that we would have been in Afghanistan for 20 years if it wasn't the world's primary source of heroin?