{"id":175732,"date":"2020-12-13T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/13\/a-good-start\/"},"modified":"2020-12-13T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T23:44:00","slug":"a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/13\/a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Congress just passed a bill   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-congress-banks\/u-s-congress-bans-anonymous-shell-companies-idUSKBN28L2NV\">requiring that shell companies detail who their beneficiaries are<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>  This means that the shenanigans like Wyoming corporations will hopefully be a   thing of the past: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The U.S Senate on Friday passed a bill overhauling anti-money laundering     rules and banning anonymous shell companies, a victory for law enforcement     and rights groups which have long sought changes to make it easier to police     illicit money flows.<\/p>\n<p>The bill requires most companies to report     their true beneficial owners to the government, allows greater information     sharing between law enforcement and regulators, and authorizes the use of     new suspicious activity monitoring tools.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, it does not make this information available to the general public, which it should, but it is a marked improvement on the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress just passed a bill requiring that shell companies detail who their beneficiaries are. This means that the shenanigans like Wyoming corporations will hopefully be a thing of the past: The U.S Senate on Friday passed a bill overhauling anti-money laundering rules and banning anonymous shell companies, a victory for law enforcement and rights groups &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,365,447,368,449],"class_list":["post-175732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-business","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}