RE: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

[Bill Stewart]

At 10:43 PM 03/04/2000 -0600, Black Unicorn wrote:
>What money laundering laws _have_ done is make it much easier to coerce and
>convict a host of smaller and more harmless crimes.  They have also given
>investigators (private and public) much greater access to the financial
>habits and dealings of the citizenry at large.  

>(CTR information can be purchased from a variety of databases now). 

WHAT?!?  <Expletive deleted>!  CTR information is legally accessible
by people other than various cops and bank regulators?  
When did my transactions become public records?  
How is this information provided / sold?


                                Thanks! 
                                        Bill
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