At 11:52 AM -0500 11/17/00, George@orwellian.org forwarded:
http://www.foxnews.com/national/1117/d_ap_1117_84.sml # # Group accused of operating bank to defraud IRS # # 10.54 a.m. ET (1609 GMT) November 17, 2000 # [snip] # The illegal bank, operated out a warehouse just east of Portland, # offered customers anonymous banking transactions to conceal income # and assets, according to IRS Special Agent Kathleen Sulmonetti. # Nine hundred customers deposited $186 million in the warehouse # bank with the money then being shuffled into legitimate commercial # bank accounts, she said.
900 people --> $186M. That's $206K each. That's a lot of money to put into a 'bank'. -- -- Marshall "The era of big government is over." Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996 Marshall Clow MusicMatch <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>