Limbaugh bank withdrawals under fire

New York Daily News ^ | 11/19/03 | DEREK ROSE

[Libertina]

This is total witch hunting... Ah well, abc has nothing else going for it.

[longtermmemmory]

If arrested, Rush should be treated like anyone else. (no commie each according to need...etc.).

FL drug court provides for doing treatment and a dismissal upon completion of treatment. Same as anyone.

Rush should not go to jail. There is no reason and nothing would be served. (unless you are DNC)

[Sloth]

Limbaugh May Have Avoided Speeding Tickets

[garbanzo]

Amounts under 10,000 must be reported if it is a pattern and practice

Ok now define "pattern and practice" in some objective manner - "structuring" is nothing but a word for whether or not you're on a government s-list. As you point out, we proles aren't even supposed to know when we're breaking the law or how to comply with the law. If we ask, we have to be reported to the government.

[Torie]

Some definitions are indeed subjective, and little more than one knows it when one sees it, and it is up to a jury to decide. Life is complicated.

[Torie]

By the way, withdrawing large amounts of cash is not illegal. It depends on how it is used, and since you will be reported to the government, you might have to explain how it is used. Inquiring what the law is that pertains to banks isn't illegal either. You will just be reported. Yes, it has overtones of Big Brother. The reporting of inquiries should be scapped. It just separates out the dumb potential crimbos from the smart ones, or the richer ones, who will just ask their lawyer. I don't think big time drug dealers ask banks what the law is.

[CobaltBlue]

Multiple withdrawal under $10K in order to avoid the necessity to report to the authorities is called "structuring" or "smurfing." If the money involves illegal activity, that's a per se violation of 18 USC sec. 1956.

Not illegal all by itself but Rush has a lot of 'splainin to do.

[CobaltBlue]

If the money was involved in a crime (say, drugs) smurfing is not just a state crime, it's a federal crime.

[CobaltBlue]

If you look at the affidavit in support of the warrant, the thing that jumps out at me is not the level of narcotics he was taking but the amount of acetominophin/tylenol. It's a miracle it didn't shut down his liver and kidneys.

Maybe the Lord is working in mysterious ways to save Rush from himself.

I had a client who did pretty much the same thing, and now gets pretty good relief from liquid methadone and acupuncture. The liquid methadone doesn't have the kind of side effects you get from taking hundreds or thousands of pills with additives. Maybe a morphine pump would be another good thing, I haven't spoken to him in a long time. Of course, if you take methadone, that makes you a "drug addict" and all of a suddent you're a pariah.

Tough to keep your chin up when society turns against you, but maybe Rush can help change that, too.

[CobaltBlue]

If "everybody does it" why should we be the only fools? Haven't you always secretly longed to evade income taxes? Haven't you always wondered how it feels to take illegal drugs? Haven't you always lusted in your heart for the spouse of your best friend or your spouse's best friend?

Come on, don't be a square! "Everybody does it!"