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Pisces (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:39 PM Original message |
Patriot Act Allows Govt. to investigate money transactions |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. The regs that nailed Spitzer pre-date the Patriot Act |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I just heard an MSNBC talking head say that since 9/11, the amounts |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I know what I did when I worked for a bank in the 90's and often we |
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Nevilledog (902 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Got a question for you Mrs. Grumpy |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. If it were me, behind the counter...no. |
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Nevilledog (902 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Guess I'm just getting paranoid...lol |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. That is probably true, mainly because everyone became more paranoid |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. which is why Bob Dole only took out 8K per week in cash from Riggs Bank. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bank Secrecy Act, in place long before the Patriot Act. |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. Cash and Carry Society? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. And the carried cash can be determined by a drive by with the proper survellience equipment that |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. Someone told me that the investigation was tipped off by the banks |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. It seems like Spitzer made several suspcicious money transfers |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. From what I read today he was transfering large sums of money to |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. So it started with Spitzer and the bank, not with the escort service. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. It appears so, from an article I read in the Times this morning. |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Me too. |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. Spitzer violated the Mann Act, enacted in 1910 and the tax laws used to nail him |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 02:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. 38 years, or go to jail themselves. |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 02:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I guess ratting out was the wrong choice of words...... |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
15. I work in finance. The laws in question have been in place since the late 80s |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Since 1970 to be exact. It is the Bank Secrecy Act. |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I sit corrected |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
23. Who ever tells you this is still the land of the free, is your enemy. |
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