{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/posts/congresswoman-nikema-williams-raises-questions-on-anonymous-shell-companies-money-laundering-in-financial-services-committee", "Congresswoman Nikema Williams Raises Questions on Anonymous Shell Companies & Money Laundering in Financial Services Committee", "2026-06-10", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "Nikema Williams", "W000788", "nikemawilliams.house.gov", "nikemawilliams", "https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/press", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) continued fighting for transparency, accountability, and safer communities as she raised questions in the exclusive House Financial Services Committee on how foreign criminals are laundering money through American real estate using anonymous LLCs. Neighborhoods like Atlanta\u2019s Ashview Heights have been impacted by these anonymous shell companies, leaving blighted properties in communities with no record of a property owner.\n\nCongresswoman Nikema Williams highlighted how the Corporate Transparency Act could shine a light on this issue as Republicans attempt to dismantle the legislation.\n\nRemarks as prepared:\n\n\u201cI represent Georgia\u2019s Fighting Fifth Congressional District, centered in Atlanta.\n\nAnd I want to talk about something that sounds complicated but is actually very simple.\n\nForeign criminals laundering money through American real estate using anonymous LLCs.\n\nHere is how it works.\n\nThey buy property, the LLC has no identifiable owner, the property sits while the money gets clean.\n\nThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution documented exactly what anonymous LLC ownership looks like on the ground in Ashview Heights when a shell company owned a blighted property and a reporter spent a week trying to find the actual owners.\n\nThis is because the U.S. law didn\u2019t require anyone to say. And that is a problem.\n\nWe can\u2019t know if it\u2019s a small investor, a multinational company, or a criminal network.\n\nAnd right now we have no way to find out.\n\nCongress passed the Corporate Transparency Act to fix this but Republicans are determined to roll it back.\n\nI have a few questions about what that actually cost us.\u201d", 1, "2026-06-11T06:38:38Z", "2026-06-11T06:41:07Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/posts/congresswoman-nikema-williams-raises-questions-on-anonymous-shell-companies-money-laundering-in-financial-services-committee"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6936450265347958, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}