I just remembered how, at least some years ago, the Virgin Islands were one of the great places for money laundering, so I did some digging.

Financial fraud in the Virgin Islands: Money laundering by the filthy rich

https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/17068/financial-fraud-in-the-virgin-islands-money-laundering-by-the-filthy-rich/

FBI MONEY LAUNDERING PROBE OF VENEZUELA FUNDS INCLUDES U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

http://vifreepress.com/2019/02/fbi-money-laundering-probe-of-venezuela-funds-includes-u-s-virgin-islands/

EU Places USVI on Money-Laundering Blacklist

https://stcroixsource.com/2019/02/14/eu-places-usvi-on-money-laundering-blacklist/

Anti-money laundering and fraud in the British Virgin Islands

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f468ea03-6562-4d45-b9c2-2f9a0b91b551

Three U.S. Virgin Islands Residents Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-vi/pr/three-us-virgin-islands-residents-sentenced-money-laundering-conspiracy

Anti-Money Laundering Measures in the British Virgin Islands

https://www.conyers.com/publication-files/2015_01_Anti_Money_Laundering_Measures_in_the_BVI.pdf

VI on US 'money laundering' list- Report-Premier Smith dismisses concerns; says US & UK also on list

http://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/vi-on-us-money-laundering-list-report/

‘Chicken Smuggler’ Seemingly Admits to Money Laundering

https://stcroixsource.com/2017/10/24/chicken-smuggler-seemingly-admits-to-money-laundering/

What are the top countries for money laundering?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-countries-for-money-laundering

U.S. Virgin Islands: An Offshore Tax Planning Jurisdiction

https://corporate.findlaw.com/finance/u-s-virgin-islands-an-offshore-tax-planning-jurisdiction.html

Now tie in illegal monetary gains from drugs, sex slaves and human trafficking etc.

>>7128808

Yeah, I'm digging Caymans right now since that is also one of the popular places. Was also looking at a map of where Little St James is, and it's right near Haiti and Cuba and South Amerca. Pretty convenient.

>>7128762

Allen Dulles

Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was dismissed by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco.

Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.

His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration and is the namesake of Dulles Airport.[1]

Dulles was uncle to Avery Dulles, a Jesuit priest and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who taught theology at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008.

During the Kennedy Administration, Dulles faced increasing criticism.[2] In autumn 1961, following the Bay of Pigs incident and Algiers putsch against Charles de Gaulle, Dulles and his entourage, including Deputy Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell Jr. and Deputy Director Charles Cabell, were forced to resign. On November 28, 1961, Kennedy presented Dulles with the National Security Medal at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.[29] The next day, November 29, the White House released a resignation letter signed by Dulles.[30]

On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed Dulles as one of seven commissioners of the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The appointment was later criticized by some historians, who have noted that Kennedy had fired him, and he was therefore unlikely to be impartial in passing the judgments charged to the Warren Commission. In the view of journalist and author Stephen Kinzer, Johnson appointed Dulles primarily so that Dulles could "coach" the Commission on how to interview CIA witnesses and what questions to ask, because Johnson and Dulles were both anxious to ensure that the Commission did not discover Kennedy's secret involvement in the administration's illegal plans to assassinate Castro and other foreign leaders.[31

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an international law firm headquartered in New York City. It has gained renown for its business and commercial law practices and its impact on international affairs.[2][3]

Founded in 1879 by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell, Sullivan & Cromwell advised John Pierpont Morgan during the creation of Edison General Electric (1882) and later guided key players in the formation of U.S. Steel (1901).[4] Cromwell developed the concept of a holding company, persuading New Jersey to include it in state law and enabling companies incorporating there to avoid antitrust laws.[5] The firm also worked with less-successful businesses during the volatile decades before the establishment of modern federal bankruptcy laws; it pioneered efforts to reorganize insolvent companies through what became known as the "Cromwell plan."[5] Cromwell was called[by whom?] "the physician of Wall Street" for his ability to rescue failing companies.[6][7]

The firm's international practice dates back to its early years and the development of America's industrial and transportation infrastructure. Sullivan & Cromwell represented European bankers financing the construction of railroads and other elements of the nation's infrastructure. By the turn of the century, Cromwell represented French interests that owned land in Panama and was involved in the financing of the Panama Canal; the firm represents the Panama Canal Authority to this day.[10]

Sullivan & Cromwell was one of the earliest U.S. firms to open overseas offices,[11] beginning with Paris in 1911. By 1928, offices also were open in Buenos Aires and Berlin, although the latter closed after the rise of the Nazi regime. In 1935, Allen Dulles, then a partner in the firm and later Director of Central Intelligence, visited Germany and returned somewhat disturbed by the direction of the regime. Over the opposition of his brother, John Foster Dulles also a partner, the firm's partners voted to close the Berlin office and a subsidiary in Frankfurt. However, later the firm backdated the announcement of the closing of their German offices by one year, to 1934.[12]

Two former chairmen of the firm held senior foreign policy positions during the Eisenhower administration: Allen Dulles' brother, John Foster Dulles, who served as U.S. Secretary of State; and Arthur Dean, who represented the United States in negotiations resulting in the Korean Armistice Agreement.[13]

>>7129025

Sullivan & Cromwell (cont)

Notable clients and cases

Advised Kraft Foods Group in 2015 during its $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Holding Corporation, making the combined Kraft Heinz North America's third-largest food and beverage company.[14]

Represented BP plc in its global $18.7 billion settlement in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The firm continues to represent BP in related securities and class action suits.[15]

Advised AT&T in its acquisition of DIRECTV in a $67 billion transaction in 2014.[16][17]

Advised a special directors' committee of Dole Food Company Inc. during the effort by major shareholder David Murdock to take the company private in 2013, together with related follow-on litigation.[18][19]

Beginning in 2011, advised Kodak during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring and subsequent reemergence as a public company.[20] The transaction was named Technology, Media, Telecom Deal of the Year (over $1 billion) by M&A ADVISOR[21] and Turnaround of the Year: Mega Company, by the Turnaround Management Association.[22]

Served as national coordinating counsel for German automaker Volkswagen Group in connection with the settlement of multidistrict litigation arising from the company's emissions violations.[23][24] The settlement built upon Sullivan & Cromwell's earlier representation of Porsche SE (a majority shareholder in Volkswagen), which set precedents on cross-border securities litigation.[25]

Represented Ferrari S.p.A and its principal shareholder in an initial public offering, part of nearly $370 billion worth of equity and debt offerings in which Sullivan & Cromwell represented issuing companies during 2015.[26][27][28]

Represented Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Frank McCourt in the $2.15 billion Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale of the team to Guggenheim Baseball Management.[29]

Represented Barclays in investigations regarding manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) and manipulation of the foreign exchange market.[30]

Represented a number of leading commercial and investment banks, asset managers and other companies in transactions during and after the financial crisis of 2008, including Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, American International Group (AIG), Wachovia, National City and Barclays.[31][32]

Represented Cory Maples on a pro bono basis in the appeal of his murder conviction. The firm missed a deadline in Maples' death row appeal after the two attorneys handling the case left the firm without notifying the court in Alabama.[33][34] A ruling on a denial petition was sent to Sullivan & Cromwell. However, the mailroom returned the envelopes to the court. In the 2012 Supreme Court case Maples v. Thomas, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "Abandoned by counsel, Maples was left unrepresented at a critical time for his state post-conviction petition, and he lacked a clue of any need to protect himself pro se. In these circumstances, no just system would lay the default at Maples' death-cell door."[35]

Notable employees

M. Bernard Aidinoff, partner and chairman of Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association

Ann Althouse, blogger and professor of law

Louis Auchincloss, writer

Michael Bryant

Jay Clayton, current chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Amal Clooney

Norris Darrell, president, American Law Institute

Lori Damrosch [de], president, American Society of International Law

Florence A. Davis, president of the Starr Foundation

Arthur Dean

Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961)[36]

John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)[36]

Ronald Dworkin, philosopher and law professor

Judith Kaye, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals

Robert MacCrate, counsel to New York Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller, special counsel to the Department of the Army for its investigation of the My Lai Massacre

Keith Rabois

Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States

Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal

Joseph Tsai, vice chairman of Alibaba Group

Mark Wiseman, Head of Global Active Equity and Chairman of the Global Investment Committee, BlackRock; former president & chief executive officer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Paul Mahoney, former dean, University of Virginia Law School

Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Judge of the Supreme Court of India

>>7129035

During 2015, Sullivan & Cromwell attorneys spent 64,000 hours on pro bono work intended to benefit individuals, charitable organizations and government agencies, especially those serving indigent defendants and nonprofit organizations.[50] The efforts are coordinated through a Pro Bono Practice led by a special counsel,[51] and currently include support for New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's Permanent Commission on Access to Justice[52] and a Federal Defenders Second Amendment program.[53]

Sullivan & Cromwell has been recognized for its pro bono activities, receiving a "Pro Bono Leadership Award" from Legal Services NYC in 2016[54] and ranked by Law360 as being among the Top 20 Pro Bono Law Firms in 2015.[55]

Controversies

Sullivan & Cromwell's involvement in the 1954 coup d'état in Guatemala is well documented. At the time the firm represented the United Fruit Company (UFC) which had vast holdings in Guatemala. UFC used its lobbying power through the firm and through other means to convince President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, an alumnus of the firm himself, to depose the democratically elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz.[56][57]

>>7129074

Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles

>>7129094

Now think about this. When you are, "investigating," a presidential assassination, who better to put on the board then some of the people who were probably involved in it. You are pretty much guaranteed to get all the wrong info and that those people will be HIGHLY motivated to make sure the truth is never found out. They like to stack the deck, you know, kinda like the Mueller investgation.

>>7129261

If you want to know the truth, some of them were actual giants, but the modern concept that they were giants came from a bad translation of the Greek word, 'gigantes,' which doesn't mean giant. It means, 'earthborn.'

>>7129142

Yeah, sorry.

>>7129371

But I think there might be some connection. The power structure that exists today, has been decades in the building. Maybe even more.

>>7129376

Think about this. WWII is over. Who is going to rebuild Europe? Who is going to finance it? Oh, probably the worlds largest banking cartel. Lots and lots of cash being doled out, a great opportunity for some scams on a national level.

Now, what companies are going to do the work and receive all that money? Wouldn't it be nice to know who was going to be granted the contracts? Wouldn't it be nice to buy some shares or entire companies knowing BEFOREHAND which ones were going to get it?