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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
Undrneath:
Tai's piercer had blue eyes and Hanner's seems to have brown.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 31 May 2018, 21:44 ---If depositing your girlfriend's heroin sales proceeds in the bank is a felony then how could Faye be in the clear? I can guess but shouldn't.
Hang on. Is this one of those things where what-it-is and what-you-can-get-imprisoned-for are two different things?
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Yeah, guessing in a case like this is always bad.
There are lots of ways the two cases could be different.
That actual laundering step is not the initial deposit, but rather how that money is later handled. In the case of someone who is trying to hide her girlfriend's drug profits, the fact that she worked with her girlfriend to hide her *girlfriend's* illicit income by accepting if from the girlfriend and then depositing it in *her* bank account? Boom: money laundering, but not by virtue of the deposit itself. It's money laundering by virtue of being a channel through which the source of the money was being concealed.
Someone depositing their own money in their own account with no intent to conceal the source of that income? Probably not money laundering.
In the middle? Selling someone a truckload of Rubber Duckies for a grossly inflated price on the basis of the buyer's deposit in a bank account when you have reason to believe that money was obtained illicitly? Not necessarily a wise choice; that's an archetypal first step in a laundering pipeline. Not in itself illegal, but...retain an attorney and consult with them.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 01 Jun 2018, 05:02 ---I believe that she did Claire's ears and septum peircing. She may have also been the lady who handled Tai's piercing in a somewhat... er... 'intimate' area.
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Am I the only one who remembers the server who gave Clinton advice about Brun and then shook him down for a Ben?
brasca:
I remember a lot of people were surprised at how tan Hannelore got when we saw her tending the yaks and forgot they hadn’t seen this bonus strip. I wonder what she was doing prior to this.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: pecoros7 on 31 May 2018, 22:34 ---I don't know the details of Piper Kerman's criminal involvement, but if the prosecution can make a reasonable case that she knew the money was obtained illegally and that her actions were intended to hide their illegal origin, then she was probably criminally liable. If she could make the case that she legitimately didn't know that the money was ill-gotten or that she had received the money legally, she probably would not have been culpable.
I suspect that Roko knows that Faye and Bubbles were doing honest work for a dishonest organization and simply doesn't see any benefit in bringing the hammer down on two people who just needed work, even if they knew that work was facilitating an illegal gambling operation.
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Faye knew that the money was obtained illegally. If she made a bank deposit, her intention would have been to do normal bank account things. The foreseeable effect, one legal standard for intent, would be to put dirty money into the clean part of the system.
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