I was going to post this, then thought better of it, then read the thread on Trump Going after NGO’s he doesn’t Like and a particular comment in there made me think I might as well post this if just for the fun of stimulating a discussion.
For various reasons I get emails from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, specifically from their Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) people. Most of them basically say, “Hey, we’ve updated our list again; time to do another comparison of all your customers to all of our listed entities.” and, boy, isn’t that fun! 
The OFAC lists of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN list) is the government’s giant list of everyone in the world who has been designated (I assume by Western Democratic Capitalist nations) as somehow supporting or working with terrorists, organized crime, illegal commerce (i.e. drugs or people) and generally the kind of people Harry Tasker would have no problem shooting because “they were all Bad Men!” plus their company names and the names of any (known) vessels they use to conduct their business around the world.
But once in a while they also send me little announcements that they caught somebody engaging in some kind of business deal so they had investigated and fined the company. Most of the cases in their announcements are about companies that voluntarily said, “Oh, whoops! How did that get in there?! We’d better stop that interaction and report this to the US Government!” and the goverment announces, “Yeah, these guys found these transactions and came to us and apologized and we’re fining them and we’ll watch them closely for the next couple years as they fix their mistake.”
And then there’s this one [The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Issues a Penalty Notice to an Individual | Office of Foreign Assets Control] (you’ll have to follow a couple clicks down to get to the Enforcement Release for the exact details) which I’ll basically summarize as follows:
The OFAC guys caught someone they’re calling U.S. Person-1 doing business with Iran and they penalized the person. This caught my attention quickly, primarily because the announcements are typically that they caught a company - which they name in the headline.
[Iran, if you didn’t know, has been considered an enemy of the USA for quite a long time (except, perhaps, when we wanted their help hunting Al-Qaeda in the land of their enemy, Iraq? That turn-of-the-millenium stuff is still grey and confusing to me!) but the OFAC issues primarily try to make sure nobody is helping them develop a nuclear weapons program.]
The unnamed person they caught cooked up a rather elaborate scheme to rent hotel rooms to people from Iran and have payments routed through third parties and Canadian banks before U.S. Dollars were deposited to a U.S. bank account. As if it wasn’t obvious, the article points out that this kind of scheme doesn’t happen by accident; it has to be carefully and intentionally planned. Unlike most of the announcements I’ve seen, the culprit didn’t voluntarily disclose those transactions. Unlike most of the announcements I’ve seen, the announcement stated the culprit insisted there was no wrong doing and was not remorseful at all.
You know me; you know us; we know which way most of the denizens of the Straight Dope community lean. We have never even tried to suggest otherwise. Therefore you know whom I’m implying in the title. Chances are, though, the government didn’t name names in their article and they’re not going to be so obvious in their choice of a substitute identifier. So, honestly, for the sake of discussion, who ELSE might be U.S. Person-1?
I’ll let the discussion rage for a while and chime in later with some other speculative questions.
–G?
Well, it musta been some other buddy
No, no, Child, it wasn’t me!
–George Thoroughgood (and the Delaware Destroyers)
It wasn’t me!