eclipse76 said:
Jupiter551 said:
TittySprinkles said:
I think it's funny any bank could have a moral issue with the way people make money so long as it is legal.
Since when do banks have a problem laundering illegal money?
And this is outrageous, straight up discrimination, and the bank should be made to pay in spades.
The problem is not banks apparently, but the DOJ pressuring banks.
Okay, but then it comes back to the same sort of thing we're seeing over leaked Snowden stuff - companies like google VOLUNTARILY gave shit out, and often chose to cooperate well beyond their legal obligations (and of course now that this has all come out those same companies are going out of their way to NOT cooperate without VERY good legal reason - because they got caught selling out their customers to the feds, publicly).
We would probably all be shocked at the level of interpretation and potential illegality of what the DOJ asked the banks to do - hence some of them refusing to do jack shit.
Banks laundered money for international drug cartels without penalty, the US govt doesn't generally pressure banks to do much of anything because they consider banks a protected species.