KCM Violations

Roger Roger said:
Um, unless th large amounts of cash are laced with C4 isn’t that not exactly TSA territory?
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TSA catches a lot more cash and drugs than they do terrorists.

I'm not sure when carrying cash became a crime, but apparently "operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business" is a thing. Every restaurant manager does this at the end of the night...

EDIT: totally a thing - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1960
 
drunkenbeagle said:
Roger Roger said:
Um, unless th large amounts of cash are laced with C4 isn’t that not exactly TSA territory?
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TSA catches a lot more cash and drugs than they do terrorists. I'm not sure when carrying cash became a crime, but apparently "operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business" is a thing. Every restaurant manager does this at the end of the night... EDIT: totally a thing - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1960
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It's no secret that the government prefers transactions to be electronic. It's much easier to track illegal activities that way...

Still. This strikes me as a "talk your way into trouble" scenario.

"Sir, why do you have $50,000 in cash?"

"I have no comment on my need to carry legal tender."

Leave it at that, and get a lawyer.

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PhilosopherPilot said:
It's no secret that the government prefers transactions to be electronic. It's much easier to track illegal activities that way...

Still. This strikes me as a "talk your way into trouble" scenario.

"Sir, why do you have $50,000 in cash?"

"I have no comment on my need to carry legal tender."

Leave it at that, and get a lawyer.

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On the other hand, if I had 50K in cash like that, you would not see my ass at a public airport....
 
drunkenbeagle said:
TSA catches a lot more cash and drugs than they do terrorists.

I'm not sure when carrying cash became a crime, but apparently "operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business" is a thing. Every restaurant manager does this at the end of the night...

EDIT: totally a thing - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1960
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I know, but it just seems so...stupid. Like when you take your car in for an oil change and they try to sell you tires and a full suspension rebuild.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
It's no secret that the government prefers transactions to be electronic. It's much easier to track illegal activities that way...

Still. This strikes me as a "talk your way into trouble" scenario.

"Sir, why do you have $50,000 in cash?"

"I have no comment on my need to carry legal tender."

Leave it at that, and get a lawyer.

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Google civil forfeiture. If they think you are doing something bad they can take it. It was designed to seize criminal assets before the criminals could dispose of them or use them to leave the country but has spread into all sorts of nefarious purposes. Lots of innocent people have their cash or other assets essentially stolen from them by the police. Scary stuff.
 
Crews get secondary security in SVO. Primarily because people try to smuggle stuff ALL THE DAMNED TIME AND GET BUSTED.

A flight attendant isn't going to be chugging around tens of thousands of dollars in cash through a checkpoint unless there was something nefarious going on.

It's easy to get a flight attendant job at an airline with KCM access. Maybe not one you want to make a career out of but let that marinate for a bit.
 
wheelsup said:
Google civil forfeiture. If they think you are doing something bad they can take it. It was designed to seize criminal assets before the criminals could dispose of them or use them to leave the country but has spread into all sorts of nefarious purposes. Lots of innocent people have their cash or other assets essentially stolen from them by the police. Scary stuff.
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Here's an official-looking meme to illustrate your point.



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Derg said:
A flight attendant isn't going to be chugging around tens of thousands of dollars in cash through a checkpoint unless there was something nefarious going on.
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I don't know, I'm sure there are at least a few out there that don't trust banks and carry around huge sums of cash. Or it could belong to a family member. Or be a collection of political donations, or they had an epic run at the craps table the night before.

I remember my mom had an older partner at the law firm that was of the not-trusting-banks type. He would go to the bank and cash his monthly paychecks, which were probably close to $50k. I'm sure being black didn't help, either the bank or the police would call almost every time.
 
Derg said:
Crews get secondary security in SVO. Primarily because people try to smuggle stuff ALL THE DAMNED TIME AND GET BUSTED.

A flight attendant isn't going to be chugging around tens of thousands of dollars in cash through a checkpoint unless there was something nefarious going on.

It's easy to get a flight attendant job at an airline with KCM access. Maybe not one you want to make a career out of but let that marinate for a bit.
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I’m betting the Aeroflot crew also gets a pretty thorough inspection in the US as well on before they fly back to the motherland.
 
It’s sad that even if you are legit (not saying the FA was because don’t know) that they govt can stick their nose into your busi
gotWXdagain said:
The way alot of those laws are written, have to sue the fuzz to get it back, and the burden of proof is on you to prove the money wasn’t used gained from illegal activities.
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fluck that
 
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