> Aguably, the news is shadowed by other, more immediate topics - it would be interesting to see how it would have been received in a non-2020-ish year.
This is what frustrates me. You can find these scandals happening way before 2020. The fact that it isn't common knowledge is distressing.
If the banks' involvement in such activities was promoted to the same extent as the political noise that currently dominates, we might have actually have made some improvement in human and drug trafficking between the 80s and now.
Aguably, the news is shadowed by other, more immediate topics - it would be interesting to see how it would have been received in a non-2020-ish year.
(I remember Panama Papers where a bigger deal, for example, probably because you could name famous people while in headlines.)
[1] https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/