[livesbygrace]

There's another article in the NYPost online, and the 'strategery' is more apparent.

November 19, 2003 -- Conservative radio-show host Rush Limbaugh may be in more big, fat trouble for possibly violating state money-laundering laws while trying to hide the fact he was buying scores of painkillers to feed his addiction. Authorities said that during a probe of New York's U.S. Trust Bank two years ago, they discovered that Limbaugh had made between 30 and 40 cash withdrawals from his account that each totaled just under $10,000, ABC News reported last night. Any time someone makes a single withdrawal of $10,000 or more from a bank, the financial institution is required to report the activity to the government. "That in itself is a suspicious activity," money-laundering expert Jack Blum told ABC News of withdrawals such as Limbaugh's. Those who make them "are structuring their transaction to avoid reporting to the government, and the bank is required to file with the federal government something called a suspicious-activity report," he said. "Now the problem will be: Did [Limbaugh] . . . assist his drug supplier in hiding the proceeds [drug money] from the government?"

It seems that they are just dying to make something, anything stick to Rush, and this is all a bunch of hooey...

[johnb838]

"Now the problem will be: Did [Limbaugh] . . . assist his drug supplier in hiding the proceeds [drug money] from the government?"

Seems to me that they are skipping a very important intermediate problem. Can they show that the withdrawals had anything to do with drugs at all? That assumption is made in each of these articles, but why would a guy making $35 mill per year do that? There is no reason to buy $9,999 in pills at a time, the only reason to do that is if you were dealing. Why would he do that if he wanted to fly under the radar? It just doesn't make sense. And who are these "authorities" that are talking about these legitimate banking transactions? How often did these withdrawals take place?

I smell gaming here, but hopefully Roy Black will do his job.