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Banks Laundered Mexican Cartel Drug Money

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Banks Laundered Mexican Cartel Drug Money


Law & Order | 208261 hits | Jun 30 6:20 am | Posted by: Scape
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Wachovia admitted it didn�t do enough to spot illicit funds in handling $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses from 2004 to 2007. That�s the largest violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in U.S. history -- a sum

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  1. by Prof_Chomsky
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:19 pm
    This says it all:

    "Wachovia’s new owner paid $160 million in fines and penalties, less than 2 percent of its $12.3 billion profit in 2009."

    Maybe I should start trafficking in child slaves - and for every 100 I enslave I will just pay a fine of 2 children to the government. That'll teach me.

  2. by avatar GreenTiger
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:32 pm
    "Prof_Chomsky" said
    This says it all:

    "Wachovia’s new owner paid $160 million in fines and penalties, less than 2 percent of its $12.3 billion profit in 2009."

    Maybe I should start trafficking in child slaves - and for every 100 I enslave I will just pay a fine of 2 children to the government. That'll teach me.


    No, don't go into human trafficking. Keep it money laundering which is nice and clean with no human faces and you may have stumbled on the best money making idea that has come along in years.

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:42 pm
    How's that bank bailout going for you guys?

  4. by avatar GreenTiger
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:05 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    How's that bank bailout going for you guys?


    Quite well, they are paying themselves huge bonuses (at our expense of course).

  5. by avatar raydan
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:13 pm
    ...how much money, do you think, were paid to the high ranting bank officials by the cartels, to look the other way. 8O

  6. by avatar GreenTiger
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:32 pm
    "raydan" said
    ...how much money, do you think, were paid to the high ranting bank officials by the cartels, to look the other way. 8O


    Legally or Secretly?

  7. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:37 pm
    "raydan" said
    high ranting bank officials


    As ooposed to high ranting forum posters? :D

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:55 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    high ranting bank officials


    As ooposed to high ranting forum posters? :D

    Spelling mistake, forgivable. Making a spelling mistake, while correcting a spelling mistake - priceless. ;)

  9. by avatar raydan
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:13 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    high ranting bank officials


    As ooposed to high ranting forum posters? :D

    Spelling mistake, forgivable. Making a spelling mistake, while correcting a spelling mistake - priceless. ;)
    I made a mistake... but it kind of works out better that way. :D

  10. by DerbyX
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:20 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    high ranting bank officials


    As ooposed to high ranting forum posters? :D

    Spelling mistake, forgivable. Making a spelling mistake, while correcting a spelling mistake - priceless. ;)

    http://andfaraway.net/blog/2009/10/24/t ... -internet/



    4. Skitt’s Law

    It is an online version of the proofreading truism Murphy’s Law, also known as Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: “any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one error”.

  11. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:22 pm
    I wasn't correcting the spelling so much as enjoying an incidentally accurate statement.

  12. by avatar Scape
    Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:12 am

  13. by avatar HyperionTheEvil
    Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:29 am
    You say that banks are involved in illegal activities?


    Really im shocked


    I can see though now why they don't want government regulation, it would cut into thier blood money amongst other things

  14. by avatar PostFactum
    Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:25 am
    Good, ..........->



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