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Money Laundering Charges Eyed Against Limbaugh
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh may have violated state money-laundering laws in the way he handled the money he used to buy the prescription drugs to which he was addicted, law enforcement officials in Florida and New York told ABCNEWS.
A conviction on such charges in Florida would be a first-degree felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Limbaugh returned to the airwaves this week after five weeks of rehabilitation for his admitted addiction to prescription painkillers. His lawyer denied today there was any foundation for a money-laundering prosecution. "There's no basis for these charges. He has not committed any acts of money laundering and he absolutely denies it," lawyer Roy Black told ABCNEWS. "I can assure you — and Rush assures the listeners to his radio station — when we can, we will tell the story, and he will tell it himself. Everybody will see what has really gone on here." Limbaugh makes an estimated $35 million a year and had no shortage of legally earned money to the buy the painkillers to which he became addicted. Authorities say they became aware two years ago, during an investigation of New York bank US Trust, that Limbaugh had taken between 30 and 40 cash withdrawals from his account in amounts just under $10,000. Banks must file a report to the government if someone withdraws more than $10,000 at once. Limbaugh's lawyers confirm that as part of US Trust's service, a bank employee personally delivered cash to Limbaugh at his New York studio in amounts of $9,900 or so. "That in itself is a suspicious activity: They are structuring their transaction to avoid reporting to the government, and the bank is required to file with the federal government something called a suspicious activity report," said Jack Blum, an expert on financial crimes. Limbaugh's lawyers say it was US Trust that suggested the arrangement. In July 2001 the bank paid a $10 million fine because of the Limbaugh transactions and many others like it. Limbaugh's name was not made public at the time but officials told ABCNEWS details were forwarded to state and federal investigators in Florida. "Now the problem will be: Did he then assist his drug supplier in hiding the proceeds from the government?" said Blum. Limbaugh's lawyers say he did not do that and that he is being falsely accused by those who want to force him off the air. Officials say a decision on whether to prosecute on money-laundering charges will be made in the next few weeks. ABCNEWS' Vic Walter and Jill Rackmill contributed to this report. Note: Money Matters -- Authorities Eye Whether Rush Limbaugh Laundered Money Used to Pay for Drugs  Money Charges Eyed Against Limbaugh By Brian Ross Source: ABCNews.com November 18, 2003 Website * Contact Rush Limbaugh Attacks ABC News Investigation Call for Treatment Instead of Jail The Government’s War on Children Rush To Jail? - Joel Miller conservative addiction good, Liberal addiction bad... Addicted to a moral mindset Hypocrisy & Double Standards  James Geddes... Age 47 Serving 90 years charged with cultivation and possession of five marijuana plants. Release Petition * Free James Geddes Revealing shattered lives Showing the faces of the drug war, lives and families ruined by extreme prison sentences.  James Geddes was arrested on an Oklahoma street with a friend in 1992, and a police search of the friend's house found a bit of pot and paraphernalia, and five plants in the vegetable garden. NINETY-THREE YEARS FOR POT By John Young Will Foster, prisoner of the drug war 93 years - Marijuana Conspiracy Excerpt: I am a 38-year-old male who was sent to prison for exercising my constitutional right of Freedom of Choice, (we are free people right?). I was convicted for cultivation of marijuana, on January 16, 1997, in Tulsa Oklahoma and sentenced to serve 93 years in prison on your tax dollars. This is the first time I have ever been in trouble. I was a productive citizen of the United States for the last 20 years, I paid taxes and even served my country in the United States Army. Newsbrief: Will Foster Arrested on Minor Parole Violation in California , May Face Return to Oklahoma Prison 5/31/02 Excerpt: Will Foster, the Oklahoma man who gained national fame after being sentenced to 93 years in prison for growing marijuana for medical reasons in his basement, has been arrested as a parole violator in California and faces a hearing today (Friday) that could send him back to an Oklahoma prison cell. Story of Will Foster By Don Wirtshafter Related... * Will Foster Freed From Jail, Had 93 Years for Medical Marijuana (4/27/01) * Will Foster Parole Denied (1/22/99) * Free Will Foster Campaign Continues (9/18/98) * Rally to Free Will Foster Scheduled for Oklahoma City (4/3/98) * Update on Will Foster - DRCNet helps get action! (7/1/97) What Will Happen To Will Foster?   Faces from the Human Rights and the Drug War exhibit Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Rainbow Farm Massacre 'We Will Not Forget,' Vow Rainbow Farm Supporters Excerpt: A downpour didn't deter friends of Rainbow Farm from gathering outside the old Cass County courthouse at 5:30 p. m. Monday on the second anniversary of the Labor Day weekend 2001 deaths of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm Rainbow Farm: CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE  Peter McWilliams The Murder of Peter McWilliams by Kevin Nelson The Murder of Peter McWilliams -- An Indictment, Not an Obituary – by Richard Cowan "If an individual did what the federal government did to Peter McWilliams, deliberately deprive him of medicine that would save his life, that person would be indicted for murder. And this was murder. Moreover, it was premeditated, and a part of a pattern of the criminal abuse of power. Consider the evidence." Richard Cowan Peter McWilliams Martyred - by Fred E. Foldary Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Peter McWilliams Peter McWilliams' Personal Page 
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11-19-2003, 10:15 PM
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Decade Yahookan
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Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Todd McCormick
Todd McCormick in Prison for Perhaps Five Years Portraits of L.A. 1998 Todd McCormick (text)  Medical Marijuana Magazine Message from federal medical marijuana prisoner Brian Epis Excerpt: I was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for the "crime" of following California's medical marijuana law. Ed Rosenthal was recently convicted at trial and faces 40 years in federal prison. We were unable to present a defense that we were following the laws of California and/or local laws. Statewide billboard campaign against federal war on medical marijuana featuring 8-year-old daughter of MMJ prisoner Bryan Epis.  Conviction in federal pot trial Truth Dies in American Courts Americans for Safe Access: Brian Epis American Alliance for Medical Cannabis Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles Green-Aid.com  Pain Drove Me To Pot Excerpt: Multiple sclerosis sufferer Biz Ivol has found a way to ease her shakes and pains - she smokes cannabis, as advised by her doctor. The Orkney Islander also sends "care parcels" to other sufferers. Jim Busted, Cheryl Put Back in Chair! - 10/21/99 Gary Storck Drug Policy Forum of Wisconsin Cheryl Miller DC Memorial  Map Inc.org Marijuana Policy Project Brief Updates On McCormick, McWilliams and the Philadelphia Class Action Important and Outrageous Cases Media Awareness Project ~ Links to WAMM Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana W.A.M.M./SantaCruzVsAshcroft Pictures from the Sept. 5th 2002 raid by Jean Hanamoto.  Excerpt: Sept. 5th 2002, Santa Cruz Sheriff's deputy negotiating with the DEA on behalf of the sick members of WAMM to release Valerie and Mike Corral in exchange for letting the U-Hauls full of their medicinal marijuana down from the garden (picture by J. Hanamoto) |
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Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Renee Boje
Legal Defense Fund Excerpt: WHAT'S NEW Posted October 28, 2003 Renee Boje is still awaiting a decision from the Canadian Minister of Justice, Martin Couchon, regarding her extradition case. continued...    In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those, 46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana. There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000. www.drugwarfacts.org U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws. According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001. Keith Stroup, (NORML) Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Grant Krieger The long harm of the law by Reverend Damuzi and Dana Larsen (01 Jan, 1999) Police and City officials break the most sacred laws to bring you the Drug War. Grant Krieger was charged for providing cannabis to sick indivduals  Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Steve Kubby Kubby.com Uphold The Law By Steve Kubby Cannabisnews search: Steve Kubby 
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11-19-2003, 10:23 PM
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Free Press My Ass
A Brief, Yet Helpful Guide To Amerika's Eugenic Courts How FIJA Saved My Life! Erowid Freedom Vault : Jury Nullification A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy. He cried out to his captors, "Pray spare me, and do not take my life without cause or without inquiry. I have not slain a single man of your troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet." "That is the very reason for which you should be put to death," they said; "for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle." The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner, Aesop's Fable's The names may change, but the song remains the same. Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Journey for Justice  PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS  DEA Raids MMJ Garden of Sister Somayah Tommy Chong Gets Nine Months NJ Weedman Wins Right to Advocate Drug-Law Reform Cannabisnews search: NJ Weedman Ed Forcion 420times Ed Forchion  CCF: Threads U.S. prison population largest in world Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible 99% ditchweed: statistics for bloated budgets cc search DdC UK Grandmother Gets 18 Months Probation For Drinking Cannabis Tea For Arthritis Pain Excerpt: A GRANDMOTHER who narrowly escaped jail for drinking cannabis tea to ease her constant pain today insisted: "It should be legalised".  Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail US Prosecutes Cancer Patient Over Marijuana TWO SUSPECTS KILLED IN SHASTA COUNTY MARIJUANA RAID Media Awareness Project ~ Links to Tulia, Texas Excerpt: Nall returned to her rural Alabama home after a shopping trip to find a swarm of police officers tearing her home apart. F U L L S T O R Y www.cannabisculture...3185.html  November Coalition * Human Rights and the WoD A CANpaign for Freedom Excerpt: The November Coalition, a national organization of drug war prisoners and their loved ones, urges you to participate in Open The Can, a CANpaign for freedom. 
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