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Originally Posted by Horatio Caine
10 years ago WU charged arm and leg for wire transfers so every immigrant community had unlicensed money transfer businesses. They used to bust them all the time in Miami. Rodrigo comes to Pepe and hands him $1000, who calls his dad in Durango. Rodrigo's mom comes to Pepe dad's house and picks up the money. Once a month Pepe sends huge wire to daddy to pay out customers next month. And there are hundreds of Pepes out there.
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they were hardly doing anything illegal, they were getting pinched for running unlicensed money transfer service, which resulted in $500 fine and nothing else...
up the ante to felony money laundering, lock some idiots up for 5 years and that biz will suddenly be a bit less appealing...
