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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
A small perverse otter:
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--- 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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Now things get really complicated and fast. Intent matters here: did she intend to obscure the source of the money? Then the subsequent transaction might constitute money laundering. If not, then, no, she really didn't launder money. Now, if Corpse Witch had intended to obscure the source of money by giving it to Faye, and Faye had known that was Corpse Witch's intent, *that* might well have been money laundering. But the deposit *itself* was not the crime in either case.
Money laundering is about corrupt transactions and intent.
* Take your girlfriend's drug money and put it in your bank account to hide it? The *taking* with the intent of concealment is money laundering. The mechanism merely demonstrates that.
* Take Corpse Witch's cash payment as compensation for work done? Maybe so, maybe no. Did CW intend to conceal the origin of the money by overpaying you and did you know that? Possibly money laundering. Did you merely accept overpayment? Possibly not. Roko and the US Attorney with jurisdiction would have to decide whether to pursue the charge.
* Take Faye's illegally gotten gains and use them to pay her share of the rent? Possibly, at least if you knew their source. It comes down to intent: did you intend to obscure the source of the money? If not, not money launderingBut these are all guesses. The point I'm making is that (a) the deposit itself is not money laundering and (b) it's all case by case. My only advice: if you have reasonable cause to sincerely suspect you might be part of such a pipeline? Get legal advice. Now.
Bad Superman:
Regarding today's comic... am I the only one who gets a somewhat... manic(?) vibe from Hannelore..?
Especially her face in the last panel.
The little lines below her eyes? The way she's grinning? Crocodile wrestling?
I don't know... It doesn't look... healthy.
Undrneath:
To be fair this comic was not long after Hanners told her mom off and was off on her soul searching adventure. So she probably wasn't in the best state of mind even for Hanners.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 01 Jun 2018, 08:15 ---Regarding today's comic... am I the only one who gets a somewhat... manic(?) vibe from Hannelore..?
Especially her face in the last panel.
The little lines below her eyes? The way she's grinning? Crocodile wrestling?
I don't know... It doesn't look... healthy.
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The reason the Hanners is off traveling the world is that she realized she had experienced a slough of new emotions when she told her mother off. She'd always been limited and defined by her disabilities and she felt like she'd very suddenly transcended many of them. (We, looking in from the outside, saw her gradual transition, but Hanners had not perceived that.) Suddenly, she's free!
But what does that do to her limits? What can she do now that she couldn't do before? Suddenly, this collared person is loose. She's experiencing something the rest of experience as we become adults: freedom from external constraints and acquisition of normal internal self-regulation. What can she do?
She's got to find out by testing her limits. Most of us do that during our teen years -- and we get the pure joy of learning "hey, I *can* do that" as well as the occasional "You know that thing you just did? Don't do it again."
So, crocodile wrestling and yak herding? You can't know until you try.
And besides, it's a very small crocodile.
Bad Superman:
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter on 01 Jun 2018, 08:52 ---
--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 01 Jun 2018, 08:15 ---Regarding today's comic... am I the only one who gets a somewhat... manic(?) vibe from Hannelore..?
Especially her face in the last panel.
The little lines below her eyes? The way she's grinning? Crocodile wrestling?
I don't know... It doesn't look... healthy.
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The reason the Hanners is off traveling the world is that she realized she had experienced a slough of new emotions when she told her mother off. She'd always been limited and defined by her disabilities and she felt like she'd very suddenly transcended many of them. (We, looking in from the outside, saw her gradual transition, but Hanners had not perceived that.) Suddenly, she's free!
But what does that do to her limits? What can she do now that she couldn't do before? Suddenly, this collared person is loose. She's experiencing something the rest of experience as we become adults: freedom from external constraints and acquisition of normal internal self-regulation. What can she do?
She's got to find out by testing her limits. Most of us do that during our teen years -- and we get the pure joy of learning "hey, I *can* do that" as well as the occasional "You know that thing you just did? Don't do it again."
So, crocodile wrestling and yak herding? You can't know until you try.
And besides, it's a very small crocodile.
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And that's the part I'm not really buying.
I may not be an expert in that field, but I think it's fair to assume, that one does not get rid of years and years (and years!) of severe mental health problems in one single "Heureka!"-moment.
To me it seems too much and too sudden.
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