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Weekly Roundup: FinCEN Fines Capital One, US Far-right Accepted Foreign Cryptocurrency, and More

The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network fined Capital One nearly $400 million for violating anti-money laundering rules and failing to report thousands of suspicious transactions and from 2008 to 2014. More A now-deceased French computer programmer transferred more than $500,000 worth of bitcoins last month to 22 addresses linked to far-right activists in the United States, according to independent research cited by Reuters. More Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced a bill that would authorize federal investigators to immediately obtain information on the beneficial owners of any firm suspected of involvement in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S....

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