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It speaks to how outrageous the fraud he committed was. It is a very high bar one must clear.


If anyone attempts to whistleblow on the fraud that the banks have allowed for years as shown in the FinCEN files, then you will find yourself in a prison cell for exposing it. [0]

[0] https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/fincen-file...


She whistleblew on the regulators to the media.


That is even worse that the regulators knew about the fraud that the banks have allowed and by someone reporting about it can land them in a prison cell.


> even worse that the regulators knew about the fraud

What fraud do you think they were covering up?

SARs are filed when money laundering is suspected. To the extent something was being covered up, it was money laundering. Not fraud.


> What fraud do you think they were covering up?

The fact that banks such as HSBC failed to flag and stop transactions to a ponzi scheme that they knew about with their 'AML' systems and processed it anyway. [0] This would never have been known before the leak and even worse that the regulators did nothing until the leak.

> SARs are filed when money laundering is suspected. To the extent something was being covered up, it was money laundering. Not fraud.

So not only just fraud that was covered up but money laundering and processing payments for mobsters and drug cartels which the banks allowed and failed to stop it.

This is getting even worse than imagined.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54225572




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