US Treasury Dept wants to know which offshore crimelords are buying all those NYC and Miami penthouses
by Cory Doctorow from on (#10P0W)
It's an open secret that the world's luxury property boom is being driven by crooked rich people in the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa who have looted their homelands and want to stash the money out of reach of any new dictators who might come along and change which oligarchs are favored and which are not. (more")