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James Traficant: the CEO of the Bank of New York has admitted to laundering $7 billion; and bingo, surprise, surprise, $5 billion of it…

On the recordJuly 24, 2000
the CEO of the Bank of New York has admitted to laundering $7 billion; and bingo, surprise, surprise, $5 billion of it is expected to be Russian dollars that they got from the International Monetary Fund. Now, if that is not enough to barf up your vodka, the investigators say, in addition to that, Russian politicians have secretly stolen $15 billion, diverted them to bank accounts all over the world, and most of the money came from Uncle Sam. Unbelievable, Uncle Sam giving billions to Russia to dismantle their nukes. They do not dismantle their nukes. They sell their nukes to Iran and China. China then aims them at us. Russia comes back, asks us for more money, the White House gives more billions. Beam me up. I say it is time to stop the cash cow for Russia. Madam Speaker, I yield back all the cash the Russian politicians have been stealing from the American taxpayers.

Editor's note · Context

Addressing issues of money laundering and U.S. financial aid to Russia.

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