I am certainly very supportive of the efforts of this bill and Mr. Cardoza's efforts to target more government assistanc...
the foreclosure problem in Michigan has been primarily caused by very high levels of unemployment.
Introducing this legislation, Mr. Chairman, was not our first choice.
Informing suspects of active U.S. law enforcement investigations is not a good way to thwart or punish crime.
How can we possibly justify our failure to do what we have committed to do: Obtain beneficial ownership information for ...
Instead of collecting beneficial ownership information at the time that a new corporation is being formed in the United ...
U.S. corporations with hidden owners have created a serious law enforcement and a national security problem.
Senator Levin's bill--and it is, as I said at the outset, Senator Levin, Senator Grassley, and Senator McCaskill particu...
That is very helpful. Thank you. And that is, of course, the point of it, and one of the reasons why this bill has been ...
the Department strongly supports any Federal legislation that would bring transparency to this area.
The very requirement of having someone state beneficial ownership is important because it brings an aspect of daylight o...
So they could identify a shell corporation in Panama or someplace as the record owner of that company?
I wonder if the Justice Department could just quickly say, don't we ask banks for beneficial owners?
Finally, because I'm over my time, Mr. Blum, do you have a comment on the tipoff issue?
Law enforcement now wants to find out who the beneficial owners are.
Our bill, the Levin-Grassley-McCaskill bill, that is the subject of today's hearing, would assist our law enforcement co...
You make no reference to beneficial owner in your proposal at all, do you?
They still do not get the information that is the most important to law enforcement, who is the beneficial owner.
