• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of the lawyers, David Boies, said after the hearing that the case “was a wake-up call for banks” that they must keep track of who their clients are.

    Try being black and getting a home mortgage loan. They keep track of who their clients are.

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    If Deutsche Bank had to screen all their rich clients for criminal activity they wouldn’t have any left.

    They’ve been a bank of last resort for criminals for many years.

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    The two banks settled to the tune of $365 million?! Wonder what they did wrong to be so culpable. I mean, how did the banks participate in the assaults and trafficking?

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      It’s called being an accomplice.

      They participated by moving the money to pay for sex trafficking underage girls.