So the Q drop mentions "in coming weeks." Would that apply to something 4 years later? It doesn't seem to match the original meaning.
More importantly the executive order you underline cannot be applied to Americans.
That executive order is related to a law passed by Congress called the the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. It's aimed at folks outside the US. "Global" because it's beyond US courts. Basically it allows the Treasury Department to block US-based assets of folks beyond US law. If they have any property in the US or bank accounts, they can't get to that money or sell that property. If they were inside the US, they could simply be indicted and prosecuted.
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, OUTSIDE the United States,
When describing the folks it applies to it has this section
(ii) any FOREIGN person
It includes the first batch of folks sanctioned. They are all foreigners
In the four years since this executive order came out 414 people/entities have been sanctioned. All of them were foreigners.
The Treasury Department lets you search for people it has sanctioned....and there are lots of different reasons people are sanctioned.....this is crucial for anti-money laundering laws which are often called Know Your Customer. If someone from the Congo wants to put $10 million in your bank or someone from Columbia wants to buy your office tower, you need a way to find out if the US government thinks they are shady.
So the Treasury Department has a list to search for Sanctioned people and you can search by the Program they are sanctioned under. The program code that relates to this Executive Order is GLOMAG for Global Magnitsky Act.
https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
You can check this yourself. I just ran that search and 414 people/entities are returned. But if you set the country filter to United States. You can just one result. Harry Varney Gboto-Nambi Sherman who is a politician from Liberia.
If you click on his details, you see he lives in Monrovia, Liberia, but there is PO Box in Maryland connected to him somehow
Harry Varney Gboto-Nambi Sherman (Sherman), now a prominent lawyer, Liberian senator, and Chair of the Liberian Senate Judiciary Committee, offered bribes to multiple judges associated with his trial for a 2010 bribery scheme, and he had an undisclosed conflict of interest with the judge who ultimately returned a not guilty verdict in July 2019. Sherman has routinely paid judges to decide cases in his favor, and he has allegedly facilitated payments to Liberian politicians to support impeachment of a judge who has ruled against him.
........Sherman is designated for being a foreign person who is a current or former government official responsible for or complicit in, or directly or indirectly engaged in, corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery.
So this PO Box connected to this guy is the only time this executive order has every been used on American soil as far as I can tell.
If they are in the US and have committed crimes, this executive order wouldn't apply. It would go through the regular legal system. If the goverment thinks they comitted crimes they would have to get a grand jury to indict them and they would get their day in court and presumption of innocence and all the other rights and freedoms we Americans enjoy.
If they go someplace they can't be extradicted from, it might apply.
Hi, couple of points.
So the Q drop mentions "in coming weeks." Would that apply to something 4 years later? It doesn't seem to match the original meaning.
More importantly the executive order you underline cannot be applied to Americans.
That executive order is related to a law passed by Congress called the the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. It's aimed at folks outside the US. "Global" because it's beyond US courts. Basically it allows the Treasury Department to block US-based assets of folks beyond US law. If they have any property in the US or bank accounts, they can't get to that money or sell that property. If they were inside the US, they could simply be indicted and prosecuted.
This executive has been misinterpreted before. But please read the text of that Executive Order.
First sentence
When describing the folks it applies to it has this section
It includes the first batch of folks sanctioned. They are all foreigners
ANNEX
Mukhtar Hamid Shah; nationality, Pakistan
Angel Rondon Rijo; nationality, Dominican Republic
Dan Gertler; nationality, Israel; alt. nationality, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Maung Maung Soe; nationality, Burma
Yahya Jammeh; nationality, The Gambia
Sergey Kusiuk; nationality, Ukraine; alt. nationality, Russia
Benjamin Bol Mel; nationality, South Sudan; alt. nationality, Sudan
Julio Antonio Juárez Ramírez; nationality, Guatemala
Goulnora Islamovna Karimova; nationality, Uzbekistan
Slobodan Tesic; nationality, Serbia
Artem Yuryevich Chayka;nationality, Russia
Gao Yan; DOB April 1963; nationality, China
Roberto Jose Rivas Reyes; DOB July 6, 1954; nationality, Nicaragua
In the four years since this executive order came out 414 people/entities have been sanctioned. All of them were foreigners.
The Treasury Department lets you search for people it has sanctioned....and there are lots of different reasons people are sanctioned.....this is crucial for anti-money laundering laws which are often called Know Your Customer. If someone from the Congo wants to put $10 million in your bank or someone from Columbia wants to buy your office tower, you need a way to find out if the US government thinks they are shady.
So the Treasury Department has a list to search for Sanctioned people and you can search by the Program they are sanctioned under. The program code that relates to this Executive Order is GLOMAG for Global Magnitsky Act. https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
You can check this yourself. I just ran that search and 414 people/entities are returned. But if you set the country filter to United States. You can just one result. Harry Varney Gboto-Nambi Sherman who is a politician from Liberia.
If you click on his details, you see he lives in Monrovia, Liberia, but there is PO Box in Maryland connected to him somehow
Here's what Treasury said when they sanctioned him in 2020 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1206
So this PO Box connected to this guy is the only time this executive order has every been used on American soil as far as I can tell.
Can all the Congressional scumbags who hold dual citizenship with Israel be considered foreigners?
No.
If they are in the US and have committed crimes, this executive order wouldn't apply. It would go through the regular legal system. If the goverment thinks they comitted crimes they would have to get a grand jury to indict them and they would get their day in court and presumption of innocence and all the other rights and freedoms we Americans enjoy.
If they go someplace they can't be extradicted from, it might apply.
Many other countries offer dual citizenship.
ThanQ for the new tool.