{"id":1828,"date":"2018-09-18T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2018-09-18T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:46:40","slug":"banker-pleaded-guilty-to-violating-the-foreign-account-tax-compliance-act-fatca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/banker-pleaded-guilty-to-violating-the-foreign-account-tax-compliance-act-fatca\/","title":{"rendered":"Banker Pleaded Guilty to Violating the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/former-executive-loyal-bank-ltd-pleads-guilty-conspiring-defraud-united-states-failing\">announced<\/a> that banker Adrian Baron of Loyal Bank Ltd. pleaded guilty to \u201cconspiring to defraud the United States by failing to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).\u00a0 According to court documents, Mr. Baron conspired with an undercover agent to conceal the undercover agent\u2019s ownership of accounts opened at Loyal Bank.\u00a0 In addition, the documents assert that Mr. Baron never collected FATCA information and told the undercover agent that there would be no questions asked unless \u201cthe paperwork indicated \u2018obvious\u2019 U.S. involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that banker Adrian Baron of Loyal Bank Ltd. pleaded guilty to \u201cconspiring to defraud the United States by failing to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).\u00a0 According to court documents, Mr. Baron conspired with an undercover agent to conceal the undercover agent\u2019s ownership of accounts opened&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flottco.com\/doingbusinessacrossborders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}