{"id":24550,"date":"2019-04-07T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24550"},"modified":"2019-04-07T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:30:03","slug":"is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/07\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Is North Carolina the Most Toxic State in the Union?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A random addition to the evidence that North Carolina’s GOP breeds some really dubious characters<\/a>, provided by a reader:<\/p>\n

A Russian bank owned by former North Carolina\u00a0Congressman Charles Taylor has been accused of money laundering<\/a>\u00a0and lost its license, according to Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n

The Commercial Bank of Ivanovo \u201cfailed on multiple occasions to comply with Bank of Russia regulations\u201d on money laundering \u201cof criminally obtained incomes and the financing of terrorism,\u201d\u00a0the Bank of Russia said<\/a>\u00a0in a press release.<\/p>\n

The bank lied about its assets and reserves, the central bank said, \u201cin order to improve its financial indicators and conceal its actual financial standing.\u201d The bank also artificially inflated its capital to make it look like it was in line with Russian regulations, the press release said.\u00a0[Charlotte Observer<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore …<\/p>\n

The AP reports, \u201cTaylor bought CBI in 2003 alongside his business partner Boris Bolshakov, a former KGB agent and Supreme Soviet deputy who is listed as the bank\u2019s second-largest shareholder.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same year, two people tied to Taylor testified that he \u201cknew about fraudulent loans made by Asheville-based Blue Ridge Savings Bank, which he owned at the time, to a political supporter,\u201d according to the AP. The then-congressman said at the time he did not know anything about the loans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sigh. I may be amused by Republican sleaze, but it’s in a painful way. I have to wonder if they’re conscious that their activities are not honorable, or if they lie to themselves as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A random addition to the evidence that North Carolina’s GOP breeds some really dubious characters, provided by a reader: A Russian bank owned by former North Carolina\u00a0Congressman Charles Taylor has been accused of money laundering\u00a0and lost its license, according to Bloomberg News. The Commercial Bank of Ivanovo \u201cfailed on multiple \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24551,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24550\/revisions\/24551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}