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What MLAT is for.
Bank records, emails, testimony assistance, searches depending on treaty and local law. Outgoing US requests are routed through DOJ OIA structures toward the foreign central authority.
You may get no notice.
Many frameworks keep requests confidential so targets do not destroy evidence. Lack of a letter from your bank does not mean lack of a file.
How this connects to charging clocks.
Prosecutors sometimes seek court tolling under 18 U.S.C. 3292 while waiting on foreign evidence, stretching limitations periods. Timing fights belong to counsel - not to internet rumor.
Local court noise as a clue.
If your bank or ISP suddenly faces a domestic court order that smells like US assistance, call counsel before you yell at the compliance officer.
Challenges are limited.
Targets usually cannot live-argue a foreign assistance request the way they argue a US subpoena. Local counsel may still protect privilege and legality issues where the domestic order allows.
Do not destroy devices.
Spoliation helps them. Preserve. Image under counsel protocol if needed. Unlike mills that recycle one speech for every country, we map do not destroy devices against your actual facts. This is a decision point on unknown where clients either keep leverage or give it away. For unknown, do not destroy devices has to be sequenced with the rest of the file - not handled as a slogan.