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U.S. regulators just fined American Express $350 million for critical AML deficiencies that failed to detect about $13 billion in suspicious activity over more than a decade. Yet American Express was not shut down. Nor did regulators hold a press conference to announce the results of their findings. My bank was the subject of an extensive criminal investigation led by the IRS that included four other nations and spanned several years, as well as a routine but extensive audit by local banking regulators. Yet they did not discover even a single instance where my bank missed suspicious activity. Yet the IRS forced OCIF Commissioner Natalia Zequeira to come up with a pretense to shut down my bank, then hold a press conference so IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee could falsely imply my bank was guilty of facilitating tax evasion and money laundering on a global scale, and use the shutdown to turn the failed and highly publicized J5 Atlantis investigation into a fake success.