Limbaugh May Have Avoided Speeding Tickets (Humor)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether Rush Limbaugh, already reeling from drug problems and his expulsion from ESPN, may have driven his vehicle just below the posted speed limits on numerous occasions, a law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity said Wednesday.

As long as four years ago, local law enforcement manning Florida DUI checkpoints and 'speed traps' repeatedly clocked the ultraconservative demagogue at anywhere from one to six miles per hour below the applicable speed limits. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Limbaugh was also seen proceeding through intersections while traffic lights were yellow. One officer who declined to be named told the AP that he had personally observed Limbaugh cruising at 43 in a 45 MPH zone. No charges were filed at that time.

Critics contend that Limbaugh drove very close to the speed limit on at least 30 or 40 occasions, most likely with the deliberate intent of getting to his destination while avoiding tickets for speeding.

Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, did not return a phone call for comment Wednesday.

However, withdrawing $9,900 so that you don't show up on the Fed's radar (and doing it 30-40 times) is a clear pattern of doing something with the intent of avoiding government attention.

I don't see the big deal with withdrawing cash in ANY ammount from a bank account. Sure depositing large volumes of cash could indicate money laundering, but withdrawing legally gotten gains in any ammount, over or under any certain amount, should not be an issue. I think this is a witchhunt at this point, and we need to start asking ourselves the motives of powers that be behind this. It is nothing but a poorly veiled attempt to further malign a man who has, far from doing anything wrong legally (outside of the drug thing--for which he has gotten help for), has been an advocate for obeying the law and taking responsibility for one's own actions. If the money is legally gained and deposited there, then there should be in no way any government attention to withdrawls in any amount. If it was legally gained--taxes were ALREADY paid on it, so its nobody's business what he got out that was his. they're grasping at straws.... like w/ Al Capone.

I think it was the bank that committed the crime by failing to report the multiple withdrawals

the closest thing to a crime might be "willful blindness," on the part of the bank. to a potential crime (which whether or not there is a crime actually being committed by the person getting $$, under federal banking law is a crime unto itself for the bank as an institution. But that's all..

Has anyone considered what kind of a bloody police state we live in where the Feds have to be informed of you withdrawing YOUR money from YOUR bank for ANY reason in ANY amount? No wonder i keep my money in my matress...
all $40.00 of it, yep.

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