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Minor Deity |
Mystery Mueller subpoena
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Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
I'll put a nickel on Junior.
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Minor Deity |
Apparently it's an unidentified foreign corporation and they lost in court today...
According to twitter tweets. I suspect it's a bank.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Deutschebank.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Nope.
Probably a government-owned Russian bank. Isn't VTB government-owned? | |||
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Minor Deity |
I understand Rachel Maddow (I don't watch her) has reported several times on Bank of Cyprus. Perhaps? http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-ma...s-some-explaining-do https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.9801f930c960
Ha.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/23...-subpoena/index.html
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"I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
As Quirt notes, the company is more than just "foreign owned." It's partly or wholly a part of the government. That leads to interesting sovereignty issues. But, from a Politico story ...
This would seem to preclude Deutsche Bank. | |||
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Does This Avatar Make My Butt Look Big? Minor Deity |
What is the national bank of Russia? | |||
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
It's also got to be a bank that does business here. I'm still guessing VTB or another Russian-owned bank, but a Cypriot government-owned bank isn't a bad guess either. | |||
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"I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
There is a fundamental principle of the WTO called National Treatment. That means, very simply, that any company operating legitimately in your country must be subject to the same rules. For instance, the US couldn't subject BMW in South Carolina to more onerous national pollution standards or accounting processes than we put on Ford in Detroit or Ohio. The purpose is to ensure that countries do not use policy to discriminate between domestically owned firms and wholly owned subsidiaries of foreign companies operating legally in the US. Same rules apply to all. What this company seems to be claiming is that they can NOT be subject to the same rules as American firms. They get SUPERIOR treatment. Ah, NO. | |||
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Minor Deity |
SCOTUS rules in Mueller's favor.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
No, not really, although it will likely lead to that. They denied the request to stay the daily fines while an appeal is underway. There were no recorded dissents to that order. Under the circumstances, the mystery corporation is unlikely to win before the Supreme Court. | |||
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Minor Deity |
This article (I should have linked it in the first place) clearly says,
https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.c04378c943dc
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Yes. The article also says:
The CNN story is somewhat clearer. Here is the headline:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08...tery-case/index.html The CNN story goes on to say:
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