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I'm not sure this is ironic enough for the Irony thread, so I'll put it here ...
The old saying "takes one to know one" comes to mind ...
The old saying "takes one to know one" comes to mind ...
FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/b9843dfd8e939f045c04701e9105ab47Miami crime expert to plead guilty in Venezuela graft case
A University of Miami professor who is a top expert on money laundering in Latin America is scheduled to plead guilty for trying to hide $3 million in proceeds from a corruption scheme with Venezuela’s socialist government.
Bruce Bagley, 73, was arrested in November on three counts of money laundering. Authorities said the charges arose from deposits he received from bank accounts in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates that allegedly contained the stolen proceeds from a Venezuelan public housing project.
Soon afterward, he was freed on $300,000 bail after pleading not guilty. But this week, filings in the New York federal court indicated he would change his plea to guilty in a hearing scheduled for March 20. ...
Bagley, an international studies professor, is co-author of “Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Violence in the Americas Today,” published in 2015, among other books. He has testified before Congress, as an expert in court and been interviewed by numerous news organizations ...