She had lived in Washington D.C. for three years starting in 2012, where she and her husband still kept an apartment. They had been, in many ways, a typical family of the U.S. capital’s itinerant international elite. Her husband, Massimiliano Cali, is an Italian economist at the World Bank; Albanese had joined the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University as an affiliated scholar and volunteered teaching yoga in a homeless shelter.
Facing the imminent freezing of their assets, they decided to sell the flat. “It was painful,” she said. It was where the older of their two daughters was born in 2013. It was where they returned whenever Cali needed to visit the Bank’s headquarters. They had just paid off the mortgage and much of their personal wealth was tied up in the apartment. Within days, she said, a buyer came forward offering a fair price, knowing they were in trouble. Then the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control killed the sale.
Since 2021, the family has lived in Tunis, where Cali had been posted by the Bank. The lawsuit filed in the district court in Washington in February by Cali and Albanese’s 13-year-old eldest daughter — Albanese is unable to bring suit herself under U.N. rules — enumerates the impacts of the sanctions on the family: Not only has the U.S. blocked them from their property, but banks have frozen Albanese’s accounts. Transactions involving her are stopped because intermediaries, such as Stripe, are American. Her health insurance has halted payments. Hotels have canceled bookings in her name.
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Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
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