>Under the same statutes the phone company could be prosecuted for "money
>laundering" if they refused to provide taps to suspected criminals.
Although IANAL, I'd say the phone company would fall under the accomplice
statutes -- aiding and abetting a crime and all that. These same statutes
would also apply to remailers running payment mixes for anonymity (PMFA).
Matter of fact, what a remailer network that does payment mixes for
anonymity _is_ money laundering, pure and simple. The essence of money
laundering is concealing where a glop of money comes from, which is exactly
what the PMFA is doing.
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Thomson Consumer Electronics Indianapolis IN
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