Re: Money Laundering Conference with Government Types

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 01:15 PM 5/5/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote:
>On Sat, 4 May 1996, jim bell wrote:

>> >   Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture are critical consequences for
>> >   the banks, attorneys, securities dealers and corporations, both
>> >   domestic and international, who may be inadvertently in
>> >   non-compliance. _Our program will give you:_
>> 
>> I wonder how long it's going to take before these "money-launderers" learn 
>> that by taking, say, 10% of the amount of money they launder in one year, 
>> they can eliminate the people trying to stop them.  Forever.
>
>Been done.  See e.g., Pablo Escobar.  

Nah, what happened to Escobar was a business falling-out.  His business partners, the thugs in the US and Colombian governments, provided the illegality of drugs, a necessary element in keeping profits up.  Escobar provided the drug trafficking, a necessary element in keeping thug...er...police employment high.  It was a great system; worked for years and is still generally operational.  Escobar must have done something to upset the arrangement, like refusing to pay off his handlers or maybe going out of business, etc.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com