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Is there some exception to money laundering rules I'm not aware of where the government doesn't investigate the source of cash if it is invested in a company fr

• filoleg 6y ago
  Oh, if it is a foreign power, they arent laundering it to prevent the US government from discovering the source, they are doing it to prevent discovering the source from their own governments. Because those foreign actors wouldn’t be running away from taxes from the US, since those money were never in the US in the first place. Also curious on how it would work. If a rich foreign national decides to invest into a random startup, i dont think US has the ability to look into where the money came from, unless that foreign national claims to have made those money in the US. Again, could totally be wrong here, so please someone correct me if that’s the case.
  • lotsofpulp 6y ago
    The US has many levers with which to find out where a foreign national's money comes from, simplest being to tie them up in a review of them being a possible security risk or not. This might be applicable too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investment_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...
• lotsofpulp 6y ago
  There's always exceptions to rules if you're sufficiently (politically) powerful, e.g. the tradeoff of going after someone causes an unacceptable loss to someone higher up in your own chain of command.