{"id":5805,"date":"2011-05-17T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2011-05-19T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:04:27","slug":"hsbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/05\/17\/hsbc\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Accused of Laundering Money for Mexico Drug Cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com\/notitas-de-noticias\/details\/hsbc-accused-of-laundering-money-for-mexico-drug-cartels\/7700\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5806\" title=\"110519_hsbc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/110519_hsbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>The U.S. Justice Departments is reportedly working on a case against  HSBC bankers they say have laundered money from Mexican drug gangs. Still at the beginning of the investigation, the Justice Department  is building its case against the bank. The investigation began in August  of 2010, when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency criticized  the bank for \u201chighly suspicious activity.\u201d Some believe that if the bank is found to have laundered dirty money,  HSBC could pay a record $500 million fine, as the Justice Department  may look to make an example of the bank. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com\/notitas-de-noticias\/details\/hsbc-accused-of-laundering-money-for-mexico-drug-cartels\/7700\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Mexico | Company: HSBC | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com\/notitas-de-noticias\/details\/hsbc-accused-of-laundering-money-for-mexico-drug-cartels\/7700\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanically Speaking\u00c2\u00a0 News<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Departments is reportedly working on a case against HSBC bankers they say have laundered money from Mexican drug gangs. Still at the beginning of the investigation, the Justice Department is building its case against the bank. The investigation began in August of 2010, when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hsbc","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}