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Re: FCPUNX:Jurisdiction Shopping
At 11:06 AM 8/26/97 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> Another popular reason is privacy in general. US domestic accounts can be
> examined by any federal, state, or local government employee who can sign his
> name to a subpeona. Any lawyer can also examine account records in the
> course of discovery proceedings. There are some limits to the above powers
> but not very substantial limits. For all we know, FINCEN has a nice Win32-
> based point and click browser that can tiptoe through every bank and
> brokerage account in America. If they don't have one yet, I'm sure they are
> trying to get one.
>
> If domestic lawyers or governments want the same sort of access to accounts
> in other jurisdictions, they have to spend many thousands of dollars and
> months or years of personnel time. Cuts down on their capabilities.
This is true to a greater or lesser extent of almost any foriegn
jurisdiction. Even both countries are hostile to financial privacy
and have cosy relationships with each other, it is still a lot more
work for investigators in one country to get information from
another.
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