re: #623 Hecuba’s daughter

The FBI didn’t find money laundering or anything curious about Kavanaugh’s financial transactions. Given this record of “thorough” investigations, I wouldn’t bet the house on this (or the Senate//).

Anybody with a security clearance gets a background check, with the amount of legwork depending on the sensitivity. What you learn from this is that the investigators need a place to start. You start with criminal checks, credit checks, and a set of initial references. Successful money laundering isn’t going to trigger any of this, unless one of your (usually sympathetic) references tells them that you’ve got inexplicable cash or suspicious habits. They’ve got a definite window of time they go back with this, as well.

This should have been caught by the assministration’s own background investigation, which means a lot of asking the subject if there’s anything that could possibly look bad, plus a private investigator with a lot freer hand. Of course if they didn’t give a shit about it, then that’s that.