Etaoin Shrdlu

You are welcome to do your own research into how KYC and AML screening works with respect to PEPs.

Bet I can.

Trump absolutely fits the definition of a Politically Exposed Person (PEP) for the purpose of anti-money laundering scrutiny by financial institutions. Banks declining to open or maintain accounts for PEPs has nothing do do with conservatism.

My understanding is that the broker could lose their license. I don't know about prosecution.

Trump and his cabinet woke? Not so much.

Internet searches do not yield a result with a Thai address or Thai contact details for IMG, so I doubt they have an office in Thailand. If that's the case, then IMG is not regulated by the OIC and local brokers are prohibited from selling IMG's products. In the past, some brokers would sell offshore insurance products here, but to avoid having an auditable link to an offshore insurer their clients were often directed to pay the insurer directly. I think some of the brokers that did this in the past have stopped. I don't know if any still do, but it is possible.

Agree. Saber-rattling is a sign of weakness. No need for the US to descend to that level.

I wonder why Medvedev would refer to last-resort nuclear strike capabilities in response to a threat of sanctions. Last-resort nuclear capabilities are typically intended to be insurance against a decapitation strike. I can't imagine sanctions decapitating Russia without the decapitation coming from internal sources.

Yup. But it also could just be part of the deal she's cut with the DoJ not to rat out Trump and others. But I'll be charitable and believe it is the latter, at least for now.

Minimum security prisons are more porous, so there may be violence in her future.

Thanks.

Thanks. Must have missed it. Or perhaps it was on vacation for a while.

That’s not the post I’m referring to. It had the word "chainsaws" in it.

This is how Trump and the donor class help the working class. Well, at least MAGAs can console themselves while standing in line at the unemployment office that there won't be any trannies in the bathrooms!

Very early on in this thread, I posed something about this delay being related to DOGE's chainsaws. Can anyone help me find that post or help me figure out why I can't?