The US is quick to point fingers, yet hardly ever enforces its rules at home.

As I write this, the US is gripped by a domestic immigration scandal that dwarfs any reproach they've cast on others. It's clear the standards it demands in countries with CBI (citizenship-by-investment) programs are much stricter than those it enforces at home.

In 2014, the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN warned banks that the Federation of St. Kitts & Nevis (SKN) CBI program had been hijacked by "illicit actors." They accused the Federation of issuing passports to Iranian citizens labeled "specially designated nationals" by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Financial institutions were told they need more than a passport from the Federation to identify a customer. The advisory instructed them to verify identity: