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Danske Bank admitted Tuesday to using deceptive means to move tens of billions of dollars of suspicious money through the U.S. over a period of several years and lying to U.S. banks to hide anti-money laundering deficiencies at the lender's now-shuttered affiliate in Estonia. Thousands of non-resident clients from Russia and other countries accounted for more than 50 percent of Danske Bank's revenue stream from Danske Bank Estonia from 2007 to 2016 after the Copenhagen-headquartered lender inherited the affiliate by acquiring Finland's Sampo Bank, federal prosecutors in Manhattan alleged in a statement. Many of those non-resident clients transacted in dollars,...