these scandals always get buried under the rug and forgotten within a few days.
They laundered money (allegedly) for Trump AND (admitted) for Hitler!
It is rather ironic in a weird way. The lenders that financed Auschwitz are also fined for a decade for violating financial laws and now loosely involved in the US Presidents drama.
it's difficult for that case to be made to the public when the narrative about bitcoin's own ties to criminal activity are so prevalent.
Kind of fascinated by how much money laundering the banks pay fines for and just walk away from.
a friend mentioned the story to me because he knows i use bitcoin. he tried to claim this was evidence that only criminals use bitcoin. this is still probably a fairly common view.
It's actually proof that authorities still catch the criminals regardless of bitcoin or banks laundering their money, doing illegal things puts you in jail
