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US Concierge Service Allegedly Transmitted Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Illegally

By Fred Williams

The alleged founder of Aurae Lifestyle, a U.S.-based concierge service that offered legally fraught clients financial "discretion" and issued them debit cards made out of gold, has been charged with transmitting hundreds of millions of dollars without a license. In an affidavit unsealed Thursday, an investigator with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark, New Jersey, accused Christopher Scanlon, a former resident of Utah now living in London, of using a network of legal entities on both sides of the Atlantic to help several individuals, including criminal suspects, make and obscure five- and six-figure payments from 2015 to 2019. "Aurae Lifestyle...

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