President JoeBiden will implore Congress to empower his administration so it can keep up its crackdown on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs two months after Moscow invaded Ukraine.
Biden called on lawmakers to pass a set of legislative proposals that would create new authorities so the United States can seize Russian kleptocracy-connected property, permit the federal government to use the proceeds to support Ukraine, and improve law enforcement tools in an address at the White House on Thursday.
Drafted with the State Department, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and the Commerce Department, one of the provisions makes it unlawful for any person to possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government, and another incorporates sanctions evasion into the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act's definition of"racketeering activity.
The framework, proposed in tandem with an additional $33 billion Ukraine budget request, coincides with criticism that the U.S. and its partners are not pursuing Putin's rumored girlfriend and mother of three of his six children, Alina Kabaeva.
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