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MineralMan

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14. Banks, themselves, get involved in some pretty shady dealing.

Reply to B2G (Reply #13)

Wed May 9, 2018, 01:20 PM

May 2018

I'm waiting to see how much I'm going to get from the settlement over the creation of accounts I was not aware of by my bank. You may have heard about what Wells Fargo got up to there.

Banks are not always working on their clients' behalf, you know? Banks all too often do stuff that is unethical or even downright illegal.

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The LLC Money Laundering Shell Company Game [View all] MineralMan May 2018 OP

I've alway wondered why RUMP had so many LLCs/businesses and so forth (as well ... SWBTATTReg May 2018 #1

It's pretty normal in RE MosheFeingold May 2018 #2

Refresh my memory pls. RE stands for ??? nt SWBTATTReg May 2018 #4

Real Estate n/t urbanhermit May 2018 #5

Thanks! nt SWBTATTReg May 2018 #6

Yup. It takes some serious forensic accounting to track MineralMan May 2018 #3

My impression isn't that he was trying to hide the money, it's that he was trying to avoid taxes. Calista241 May 2018 #7

Doubtful. I'm almost certain he was laundering money MineralMan May 2018 #8

A laundromat depends on rotational motion dalton99a May 2018 #9

Ah, the spinning cycle. MineralMan May 2018 #10

Banks have highly trained professionals B2G May 2018 #11

Mueller has a team of forensic accountants. MineralMan May 2018 #12

That could not be further from the truth. nt B2G May 2018 #13

Banks, themselves, get involved in some pretty shady dealing. MineralMan May 2018 #14