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These loopholes allow dictators and their cronies to stash and launder dirty money in and through anonymous shell companies and anonymous real estate purchases.
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Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
The Games have become the world’s largest marketing mechanism and a safehouse for dictators’ dirty money.
—Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
The Regime cruises for a few episodes as a passable facsimile of an Armando Iannucci series like The Thick of It or Veep, buzzing on a viper’s nest of palace intrigue and a keen sense of how autocracies convert populism and propaganda into piles of dirty money.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024
Financial institutions and other private-sector entities that have been caught laundering dirty money appear to view fines as the cost of doing business; for genuine deterrence, the use of more severe sanctions, including criminal prosecution, is necessary.
—Samantha Power, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2020
American universities’ acceptance of such dirty money was in the spotlight just a few years ago, when the Trump administration oversaw an unprecedented investigation into universities’ failing to disclose foreign funding.
—Casey Michel, National Review, 2 June 2024
Emilia wants to selectively reset what came before, spending the dirty money earned before her transition and lavishing attention on her kids while all but ignoring their mother.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 May 2024
In 2020, a British parliamentary committee concluded that Russia had mounted a prolonged campaign to undermine Britain’s democracy — using tactics from disinformation, meddling in elections, funneling dirty money and employing members of the House of Lords.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 8 May 2024
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Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
The Games have become the world’s largest marketing mechanism and a safehouse for dictators’ dirty money.
—Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
The Regime cruises for a few episodes as a passable facsimile of an Armando Iannucci series like The Thick of It or Veep, buzzing on a viper’s nest of palace intrigue and a keen sense of how autocracies convert populism and propaganda into piles of dirty money.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024
Financial institutions and other private-sector entities that have been caught laundering dirty money appear to view fines as the cost of doing business; for genuine deterrence, the use of more severe sanctions, including criminal prosecution, is necessary.
—Samantha Power, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2020
American universities’ acceptance of such dirty money was in the spotlight just a few years ago, when the Trump administration oversaw an unprecedented investigation into universities’ failing to disclose foreign funding.
—Casey Michel, National Review, 2 June 2024
Emilia wants to selectively reset what came before, spending the dirty money earned before her transition and lavishing attention on her kids while all but ignoring their mother.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 May 2024
In 2020, a British parliamentary committee concluded that Russia had mounted a prolonged campaign to undermine Britain’s democracy — using tactics from disinformation, meddling in elections, funneling dirty money and employing members of the House of Lords.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 8 May 2024
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“Dirty money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirty%20money. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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