[kornhole]

Like many laws, they apply to you and me, not to the oligarchs. The international lawyers and accountants are the gatekeepers that navigate them through the loopholes.

[notch898a]

That reminds me of FATCA. They made the burden just high enough for banks taking sub six-figure accounts that it's worthless to bank an American customer overseas unless they are rich.

[Scoundreller]

Depends on the country.

Progressive ones have laws against refusals to open accounts, especially if you are a citizen of the country you’re trying to open an account in.

[berjin]

Yes and they do it under the pretence of solving sexual slavery or child sexual abuse...yet at the same time how many global leaders have visited J.Epstein's island?

[mikeyouse]

Maybe none? There's no evidence that Clinton or Trump ever visited the island, so I guess the 10th in line to the British Throne is probably the closest you can get to a "global leader"?

[ipaddr]

Trump not mentioned in court. Clinton yes.

Celebrities and high profile figures named in court documents Prince Andrew Alan Dershowitz Emmy Taylor Sarah Kellen Eva Dubin Glen Dubin Jean Luc Brunel Nadia Marcinkova Bill Clinton Marvin Minsky Henry Jarecki Naomi Campbell Ron Eppinger Stephen Hawking

[mikeyouse]

Which is both a different question to whether “global leaders” were at Epsteins island and not entirely true..

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/what-the-unsealed-ep...

[ipaddr]

Intelligencer? Do they feel the name is clever, is it historical or is it just the most stupid sounding name they could come up with?

[mikeyouse]

Historical.. It was the name of a paper that Jonathan Swift founded (among other historical papers by the same name)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13169/pg13169-images.ht...