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Elizabeth Warren: “We need to rethink a lot of our money-laundering laws, some of which... were written back in the 1970s and are badly out…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
We need to rethink a lot of our money-laundering laws, some of which... were written back in the 1970s and are badly out of date.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren calls for an update to outdated money-laundering laws to aid enforcement.

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