[Tainan]

Same thing happened during the cocaine boom of the '80s. Big banks, especially the Bank of Nova Scotia, Scotia Bank, laundered cocaine money BIG TIME.

The many shopping centers started, and later abandoned, around the U.S.A. during the mid-late '80s were almost all funded thru this banks. Laundered cocaine money

[pepsionice]

If you sit and think about this....tons of money coming into your organization, which can’t readily move it via risky illegal means. So why would you NOT go to the banks and arrange for capital movement by legal means? I would even go as far as suggesting that the illegal guys could go and seek out naive bankers...telling them some story of connections to Senator such-and-such, and wanting money funneled to help someone’s election campaign. Based on everything I’ve seen in two years....I believe most bankers are dim-witted and unable to comprehend reality.