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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Plead the Fifth; December 14-16, 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)44. HSBC Couldn't Track $60 Trillion in Suspicious Activity?
HSBC was able to track Eliot Spitzer's 3 deposits to a holding account for an escort service. But they couldn't track $60 trillion in suspicious activity transfers from drug cartels and al-Qaeda that benefited them? Could it be because Spitzer was investigating the banks? Cenk Uygur breaks down the financial hypocrisy.
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$10M is just a bagatelle...Ludvig wrote several. Here is one performed by Glen Gould
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