On: Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

[consumer451]

I am pretty darn jaded these days, but I find myself staggered.

edit after reply:

> What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan.

Ahh, now the arrest of the former chief of Germany's BND, related to what seemed like a random country "Azerbaijan" is making a bit more sense?

[TFNA → consumer451]

Azerbaijan isn't a random country in corruption contexts. It is a petro-state and run by a single family for their own enrichment. It's pretty expected to come up occasionally in these kind of stories.

[tiahura → consumer451]

I wouldn't read a connection between the two other than a lot of corruption flows through Azerbaijan.

[blipvert → tiahura]

I think that you’ll find that it’s pronounced “Aber-baijan”.

[eddyfromtheblok → consumer451]

the corruption or that other countries are able to surface the corruption faster than we can?

[georgemcbay → eddyfromtheblok]

> or that other countries are able to surface the corruption faster than we can?

A lot of the corruption just happens right out in the open here these days, doesn't even need to be surfaced.