'See, they love to joke.'
yep, even Glenn Simpson is a jokey, joke maker…
“Follow the money” could be Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn R. Simpson’s motto. His sophisticated dispatches from the banking/terrorism/money-laundering/organized crime nexus routinely advance well-covered subjects.
On the last day of 2004, Simpson published a Journal story about the Justice Department’s investigation of purported money-laundering at Riggs Bank, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Previous news reports had connected Riggs to the dubious financial machinations of Saudi diplomats and despots from Africa and South America, including Chile’s former maximum leader, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Banking regulators fined Riggs $25 million last year for its violations, the institution put itself up for sale, and a Justice Department investigation was started.