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In short, losing the election but manipulating the instituional rules to evade the checks and balances that normally result from such an outcome is a very appealing option for the governing party.
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As Reason's Matt Welch wrote Monday, "[T]he attorney general of the United States today is declaring America's drug-war-led over-incarceration a moral failure, and announcing new federal rules to deliberately evade mandatory minimum laws for drug offenses".
Banks don't want clarity because clear rules are hard to evade.
FIRSt rule: forget trying to evade income taxes.
The government evidently suspected that banks were using such maneuvers to evade rules put in place this year to rein in rampant lending and excess credit.
"When you go offshore, you are doing so to evade rules, regulations, laws or taxes," said Jack Blum, a Washington lawyer with 30 years of experience in financial fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
Nearly three-dozen other employees were disciplined.Still, the 35-page statement of facts released by America's Department of Justice outlines numerous schemes to evade rules that rested heavily on decisions by individuals, and endorsements from senior executives of an illicit strategy.
The swaps market has traditionally be seen as off limits for federal commodity regulators, but the commission clearly is responding to Congressional concern that investors may be using swaps dealers to evade rules that limit the size of their speculative role in regulated markets.
The privilege asserted by Cheney's office recalls his attempt last year to evade rules for disclosing classified documents by claiming that the vice president's office is a hybrid branch of government that is neither executive nor legislative.
Shaxson shows how the absence of proper regulation in London allowed American banks to evade the rules set by their own government.
Mr. Volcker's concern, according to several people familiar with the matter, is that narrow or prescriptive rules would invite gamesmanship on the part of banks and could allow firms to evade the rule's intent.
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