The Golden Age of White Collar Crime - Highline 🔗 📰 💵 ⚖️ 🇺🇸

’Let’s say you get a tip that some billionaire is hiding a bunch of money offshore and not paying taxes on it,’ said Arthur VanDesande, who spent 25 years as a criminal investigator for the IRS. ‘And you manage to narrow the tax evasion down to 20 of his bank accounts. OK, now you have to prepare 20 subpoenas, get them signed by a judge and deliver them to the banks. But when you go to Bank of America, they say, “We don’t accept subpoenas at this location, you have to go to our authorized representative in Orlando.” So then you go to Orlando and and you find out the money is linked to an offshore account. So then you have to write to the embassy…’