Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, federal regulators have stepped up enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money laundering law, passed in 1970, that makes banks responsible for reporting unusual cash activity...
In October, Birmingham, Ala.-based AmSouth Bank was ordered to pay $40 million to the federal government for not filing SARs. (Suspicious Activity Reports) Link
True, but it was worthy of consideration, however based on what I read here this theory can be dismissed.
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at AmSouth Bank. One of these SAR violations involved a scheme by Louis D. Hamric
... Dowdell relieved it of an obligation to file a SAR. AmSouth now ...
www.usdoj.gov/usao/mss/documents/ pressreleases/october2004/was15758841.pdf