17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
To: cypherpunks@toad.com Perry says: P >Perhaps not. Its very common in many large business conducted here in P >New York in certain seemingly legitimate industries for much of the P >business to be conducted off the books -- people who will take cash P >for work are sought after. I will not name the industry in question, P >but it is one of the few major ones left in the city and it isn't P >finance. The size of NYC's underground economy can be proven by the fact that almost any mortgage lender will give you a "No Income Verification" loan for a residential property. They don't care where you get the dough from as long as you have a good record of making payments (they still do a credit check). DCF --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165