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Money Laundering Update
Tuesday, October 18, 2005   By: Juan Paxety

Cuba, Iran and the gang

Last week, we reported that Congress is looking into money laundering involving UBS, a Swiss financial services company, and regimes such as Cuba, Iran, Iraq and Yugoslavia.

Our friend Fausta at Bad Hair Blog has an update. And she points out

The average person in Cuba has to get by on $20 and a book of rations each month. But of course, Fidel and his apologists blame the "embargo" for that. No embargo kept that $3,900,000,000 from enriching fidel, though.

Read the whole thing.

 

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