At 11:52 AM 11/17/00 -0500, George@orwellian.org wrote:
# 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.
That sounds a lot like the DEA estimates of how much the street value of marijuana plants are ("Let's see, under ideal conditions this plant could produce 2 kilos of product, and the highest price we've ever seen for dope was $X/ounce, so this flat of 2" high seedlings is worth FIVE MILLION DOLLARS!") I bet the counted or double-counted the money any time anything moved. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639