Interesting charges. Are they ever applied to companies that allow money to be w...

geofft · on July 22, 2015

I assume that banks religiously file suspicious activity reports, especially if you go to them and say "Hey, please wire this ransom." Given where the FBI put the words "in violation of ... laws," my guess is that the charge is not for facilitating the money transfer itself, it's for doing so without reporting to the federal government.

patio11 · on July 22, 2015

HSBC penalized $2 billion for allowing HSBC Mexico to continue doing business with local currency exchanges which were likely also doing business with drug traffickers, etc etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20673466

MichaelCrawford · on July 22, 2015

"The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgeral, "The Great Gatsby"

aaronbrethorst · on July 22, 2015

It's F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the quote is actually from another story of his, The Rich Boy. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/books/l-the-rich-are-diffe...