At 11:52 AM -0500 11/17/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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'.
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-- Marshall
"The era of big government is over."
Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996
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