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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The most chilling aspect of that blockbuster Mueller indictment? The bureaucracy behind Russia's onslaught.

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InfoGovNuggets

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The cobbler’s children have no shoes. Experts tend not to tend to things at home. “Errant Charges at Coinbase,” The Wall Street Journal , February 17, 2018 B9. A bitcoin firm ended up charging its customers multiple times (as many as 50!) for the same transactions. Blames its vendors. Let me see. You can’t work out your own electronic invoicing and you want to store our digital currency?

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InfoGovNuggets

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

“U.S. Bancorp Is Charged, Fined in Laundering Case,” The Wall Street Journal , February 16, 2018 B2. Bank fined over $600 million and criminally charged with laundering money. And placed under a deferred prosecution agreement, which is always an adventure. Bank allegedly constructed and operated its controls on money laundering “‘on the cheap.'” Think of the money they saved!

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InfoGovNuggets

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Doug Laney has done a lot of good stuff on infonomics, and the value of information. But can information have a negative value? “FBI Didn’t Follow Up Tip By Person Close to Shooter,” The Wall Street Journal , February 17, 2018 A1. FBI got a tip on January 5 about the person who ended up shooting up the school at Parkland on February 14.

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