CDR: Re: Bob's Bank. Hi, I'm Bob. Just slip it in this pocket here.

[Marshall Clow]

At 11:52 AM -0500 11/17/00, George at 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 at mailhost2.csusm.edu>