$1 million in cash found on routine big rig stop

SunJournal ^ | Sep 03, 2010 | Mark LaFlamme

[Ghengis]

Commercial drivers operate under a whole different set of rules than do regular folks. If you are hauling cargo and the documents don't match, you may find yourself sitting for a long time. If that undocumented cargo just happens to be about $1,000,000 in bundled cash -- as we see -- you'll be sitting in front of a judge.

If it had been a passenger car and there was no probable cause of a crime outside of the suspiciousness of the amount of cash, I'd say that there was a beef. Since this was a commercial rig, no beef that I can see.

[stephenjohnbanker]

They released him in hopes his partners would kill him.

[altair]

Where have you been the past decade or so? They don't even have to charge you with a crime to steal your money.

I'm glad you asked. Japan, Philippines and India. Does that make any difference? (It shouldn't).

This has been coming on since the 1980s. I find it dismaying that no one talks about it, so successfully has "money laundering" become a demonized term.

"Money laundering" is financial privacy. How you got it, where you spend it is nobody's business without normal constitutional protection. Period.