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What’s In Your Wallet?

  Author:  5940  Category:(News) Created:(8/19/2021 5:29:00 AM)
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Federal law states that travelers can bring as much money as they want when they travel in or out of the country, but they need to declare anything over $10,000 to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Travelers who fail to declare their funds risk getting the money taken away by customs officers — but the seizure statistics suggest more people still try to slip big wads of cash past federal agents.

In Florida, Miami International Airport, recognized as a hub for cash, contraband and drug smuggling, ranks among the top five in the United States for federal seizures of money from travelers who don’t legally declare it — a sum totaling $91.5 million at MIA between 2000 and 2016, according to a report by the Institute for Justice, a Virginia-based law firm that specializes in efforts to recover civil forfeitures by the government.

The airport seizure report, based on statistics from a Treasury Department’s forfeiture database, focuses on travelers whose money was taken by Customs and Border Protection officers. Their typical crime: a failure to file required paperwork, FinCEN Form 105, declaring more than $10,000 in cash upon entering or leaving the country.

The report — titled “Jetway Robbery? Homeland Security and Cash Seizures at Airports” — says that customs officers seized $2 billion in more than 30,000 seizures at U.S. airports over a 17-year period. A big chunk of that total, $500 million, was confiscated only because American and foreign travelers failed to declare more than $10,000 in cash — not because the seizure was connected to serious criminal activity.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-seized-2-7-million-110000282.html

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Date: 8/19/2021 5:32:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    Well, I don’t have any money and I sure won’t be traveling out of the country anytime soon.

  
Date: 8/19/2021 5:46:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    What would happen if you should up at the airport with bundles of “Monopoly “ money on April Fool’s Day?  
Date: 8/19/2021 1:25:00 PM  From Authorid: 13969    Probably some charges that have to do with counterfeiting or some sort of intent to deceive. I guess that's the world we live in these days  
Date: 8/19/2021 6:13:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    I know what you mean S.G.

That's why I'm not going to Canada at Hekler's invitation. He says he's got a sure fire money making opportunity regarding currency of the Canadian kind.

I inquired for more details as I am skeptical...mmm...uh huh..
  
Date: 8/20/2021 7:06:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hey Larry Nobody would really be concerned over the amount of cash that I ever carried when I flew. I did cause a bit of excitement once, though. I was visiting a friend up in Reno and decided that I would bring him five pounds of headed jumbo shrimp. (10 shrimp per pound)

Anyway, not being a frequent flyer, I wasn't hip to packing etiquette. So, I froze the shrimp ahead of time and then wrapped `em in several layers of newspaper and stuck `em in my carry on duffel bag. (always travelled extremely light) Well, as luck would have it, we spent six extra hours on the runway and my shrimp began defrosting. I informed the stewardess and she took the shrimp off my hands. She even gave me six of those mini liquor bottles, in assorted flavors. (1.7 oz)

I really hated giving up the shrimp, but I didn't have enough money to buy an ice chest and since Reno was the girls home base, I figured "what the heck."

The actual incident occurred as I was heading for "Ground Transportation." A brace of airport security agents were leading a trio of drug sniffing dogs and headed in the same direction as I was. When I came abreast, the hounds went into hysterics, the agents insisted that I lay prone and belay any "furtive movement." I was stripped of my duffel bag, taken to a "back room" and subjected to various forms of interrogation. I tried to explain that I had been carrying shrimp in my bag, and ditched it. They weren't buying any of that, until I produced the stewardess's phone number and she graciously came forward and explained everything.

"Jane" and I had the shrimp, that evening, with a "Blistered tomato and Basil salad" and approx 10 ounces of various flavors of alcohol.

  
Date: 8/20/2021 7:42:00 PM  From Authorid: 5301    

...this is a fine way of breaking the news that you're cancelling your 2021 "Poutine Tour du Canada"

  
Date: 8/20/2021 11:41:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    It’s all fun and games till they release the hounds eh Kronk?  
Date: 8/20/2021 11:45:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    It’s not my fault , maybe we could turn this situation into a reality of show of some kind…….  
Date: 8/21/2021 2:45:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    The reality of life on the southern coastal prairie is 95 degrees, with a 110 degree heat index. I bet it don't get that hot in Finland!  
Date: 8/21/2021 6:14:00 PM  From Authorid: 5301    

...Kronk...what you need now is a beef jerky smoker.
Check ou page 46 in the new HeklerCo catalog.

Hot people LOVE beef jerky! Get in on the ground floor!

  
Date: 8/22/2021 4:27:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hekler L.E.D. here: Kronk has several pounds of "Humboldt squid" hanging on the our clothesline, to dry. "Cool," he ain't! More like, "Hot & Nasty."   
Date: 8/22/2021 6:10:00 PM  From Authorid: 5301    

...hey there L.E.D!

I applaud your attempt to contain knowledge of Kronk's "sideline businesses" by speaking in code
but I'm pretty sure that ATF doesn't follow the events here on USM so he should be pretty safe.

The "Humboldt squid" is obviously a reference to moonshine and the "clothesline" is a still.

By chance, does he provide tastings?

  
Date: 8/23/2021 7:02:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hekler "I will serve no squid, before it's time."

I remember, back when I was gainfully employed, I was put out of a co worker's vehicle, one morning. He refused to allow me to bring my squid aboard. (I carried a couple in my shirt pocket, to nibble on during my shift.) He said that my snack smelled like rotten shrimp. Some people have absolutely no taste, at all.

L.E.D.---I can't see how you can eat that stuff.

kronk---"I love the smell of dried squid in the morning."

L.E.D---Ugh!
  

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