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What was even the endgame here? If you successfully claim you were acting as an agent of a foreign government (many of them, in fact!), surely that's the kinda
by stefan_ 5y ago
What was even the endgame here? If you successfully claim you were acting as an agent of a foreign government (many of them, in fact!), surely that's the kinda line of thought that ends with your employees arrested at every airport and border?
Why is this even in civil court. How can the CEO of this company be in the US at the same time as his company is put on the sanctions list and still board an airplane out of the country after? Why are banks discussing with the sanctioned entity how to best unroll their debts?
- encryptluks2 5y agoIt is in civil court because politicians are scared of doing anything other than giving Israel billions
- jerrysievert 5y agoit's fairly common, as far as I've seen - at least in Portland when Saudi citizens are released on bail they seem to disappear. https://www.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/12/9b5b1eff724150/he-was-accused-of-killing-a-po.html https://www.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/12/9b5b1eff724150/...
- sudosysgen 5y agoThere's nothing done against being the agent of a foreign allied government. If they were doing this for the Chinese or the Russians they'd be arrested. The law against foreign government agents is applied incredibly arbitrarily.