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As a registered representative who is fully licensed by FINRA, SEC, and other regulatory agencies, we are tasked with ongoing education, the bulk of which deals with compliance, anti-money laundering and other kinds of malfeasance that may occur while working with clients.2/15

The recent trending of #HunterBiden’s name on Twitter got me thinking back to when #LaptopFromHell was the big story. Some of the material that was released included investment/banking statements that belonged to him. The BD that custodied Hunter’s account was Morgan Stanley.3/15

This is not a conspiracy theory. I’m a believer that there’s truth and then there’s a not quite the truth. Now, every year I must attend a few Anti-Money Laundering (AML) courses to stay current on my continuing education. This is a BIG FUCKING DEAL in the investments world. 4/15

Rarely trust what you hear and always verify everything...including this tweet. MS’s internal trade review desk and other compliance groups SHOULD HAVE FLAGGED Hunter Biden’s accounts for suspicious activity. As far as we know, they didn’t. Why???

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Now, back to Hunter’s account at Morgan Stanley (MS). Hunter opened up an account there and immediately began depositing his cash from his position as a board member (or whatever he did there) at MS.

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From what I remember of the account transactions that I saw, the money from Burisma Holdings ($83,333 each) began getting deposited and mainly stayed there in cash/MM. After the account began building to a good sized balance, that’s when the outflows began.

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There was a TON of trading activity taking place. Large deposits coming in from a region that is on the OFAC List from the US Dept. of the Treasury and then large disbursements to various entities, including Joe Biden’s own brother. (More on OFAC shortly)

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Once the money was coming in, payments were being made (10% for the big guy?), I believe that’s when the money became big enough to become investable into stocks, ETF’s, mutual fund’s and bonds. Investing the money now makes it harder to trace, as it creates one more layer.

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OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) is part of the US Treasury Dept. OFAC administers and enforces economic/trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and nat security goals against targeted foreign countries/regimes, terrorists, int’l narcotics traffickers, etc.

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They have what’s called an OFAC List of countries, regions, people, entities, businesses and other categories that any US financial institution are NOT allowed to make financial transactions with in the US. Before opening an account like this, OFAC must be checked first.

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Now Burisma, of which Hunter became a board member, is a Ukraine-based energy company. They have facilities in Crimea, which is now under the control of Russian forces. That is a region of Ukraine that OFAC has designated to be bad enough to make the list.

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This leads to my two specific questions and my main point:

A) Why isn’t Burisma designated by the Treasury Department as a restricted entity on the OFAC List? They have operations in a sanctioned region. It makes zero sense. Someone excluded them, maybe for a reason.

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B) Why didn’t Morgan Stanley put two and two together and STOP the accounts from opening and trading? I copied this from MS’s own Code of Conduct page, which specifically mentions OFAC regions. Ukraine/Russia/Crimea fits the description. MS should’ve known better.

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Again, y’all can draw your own conclusions here. I think there are enough issues with Hunter and China to deal a blow to the Biden administration and this may be a nothing-burger that I’m cooking up. I just know that there are no coincidences or “oopsies” in DC.

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Everything that I’m about to say is coming from someone that has been in the investment management industry for well over two decades now and knows the inner workings of trading and compliance. I also worked for Morgan Stanley early in my career.

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