As I have been saying all along...there is much corruption in high places. Even Prez LF stated that there will always be corruption. The drug network in my barrio of Los Platanitos (Ensanche Caonabo) includes lower level tigres from the Pichardo drug family who are allowed to pay off judges, police & DNCD. The Pichardo brothers "Choppo" and "Chino)" have invested drug profits well into apartment buildings and other ventures all at the expense of creating a society of crime and addicted youth. These guys do not worry about authorities because they have given them a perpetual get out of jail card. I have seen these tigres become increasing hostile to Americanos in the past few years. All the while, the police, politicians and DNCD are impotent in terms of ensuring us a better quality of life. The above article illustrates how a Civil Regsitrar officials has been connected with large sums of cash being illegally smuggled into the RD but now the pilot has accept being the fall guy.

Oh! In the name of the Nazarene who is spotless, is there, in some way or in some degree, a difference between money laundering ... which is so criminal under ruling US bourgeois law ... and smuggling cash, which is so trivial and trifling under US, Dominican, and whatever law.

Really, listen Holy Nazarene, doesn't everyone of us, at some time or in some degree, smuggled cash across national borders?

Come on? You've done it too.

Belial:
I have read your anti-imperialist crap for so long and have always resisted commenting. But if you are too dumb to understand that smuggling a little cash is no where near the seriousness of money laundering, what credibility does the rest of your drivel have? Money laundering is the cleansing of money that is obtained through illegal methods, such as drug dealing, gun smuggling, bribery/corruption. For example let's say I am a candidate for high office and I worked for the previous gov't and found a way to make myself rich. Now if I want to be president I have to account for that money by washing it and saying, for example, that I made some smart real estate deals, like a summer house, or hotel. Now I can show that I have this ill gotten money and to the uninformed, it appears like clean money. Money laundering is done primarily by really bad people.

JD_Dominguez,

"The drug network in my barrio of Los Platanitos (Ensanche Caonabo"

Dude you should move to a better place then you won't have to worry about what thse guys do.

You have been posting the same thing as long as I have been visiting this site.

I beleive your intentions are good but not well placed..

Relax you can't save the world from drugs many have tried and failed..

juanb,

States:

"But if you are too dumb to understand that smuggling a little cash is no where near the seriousness of money laundering"

Translation :

When the PLD "Partido de la Deliquencia" is in power " smuggling a little cash is no where near the seriousness of money laundering" however when any of the other criminal parties are in power I will make a federal case out of it.

A classic case of Moral Relativism if I ever saw one!

"But if you are too dumb to understand that smuggling a little cash is no where near the seriousness of money laundering, " says juanb. inflated with arrogance over his "understanding."

oooo

"A little cash, you say?"

"Dominican Supreme Court deputy chief justice Rafael Luciano Pichardo admitted that his son is involved in the case of the 580,000 dollars seized yesterday by Customs agents ...," the DT reported in the article above.

So, way over a half million dollars is only "a little cash."

When you are "too dumb," like most of us, a mere 58,000 dollars seem like a lot of money and 580,000 dollars really seem like a whole lot.

"How much money you got on you?"

"Oh, just over half million dollars."

"Isn't that quite a bit to be carrying around?"

"Only if you're "too dumb" and lack the understanding I have."

"What are you doing with a half million dollars on you, Luciano?"

"I went to Puerto Rico to buy some fried chicken and I took a little cash with me."

"Do you expect me to believe that, Luciano?"

"If you don't, then you're "too dumb" and you lack understanding.

How can a young man with family, who has a declared income of $35K pesos/mo, afford a single engine plane that is capable of flying to PR? I make much more than that, and can't even dream of owning my own plane in the DR. He owns the plane, he is responsible for all/everything that travels within it. He comes from a "Law" background, and never asked his passengers, "What in the bag?". Come on ! His father is smart, by distancing the actions of his grown son, to any of his professional activities.

Anything over $10,000.00US undeclared is very illegal, so if you smuggle in $580,000.00 it is safe to say that the business is pretty shady and it's not just " a little cash".

$10.00 is a little cash.... $500,000.00 not so much...jejeje

But i'm sure the justice system will just give him a light slap of the wrist, which if true is a sad truth.

It's pretty simple. Nobody that earned money legally feels the need to carry half a million dollars in his lugage, that's why banks have swifts, so you can transfer it. Something fishy is going on here.

"How much does fried chicken cost in Puerto Rico?"

"You're too dumb to understand."

000000000000000000000000

"Does this money belong to you?"

"That depends on whether you're going to prosecute."

0000000000000000000000000

"How do you plead to the charge of money laundering?"

"Not guilty, father."

i would like juanb to explain to me how he considers 580,000 dollars to be ä little cash. if you get caught at the airport in the usa with more than 10,000 usd, it gets confiscated forthwith. secondly, does juanb really believe that this 580,000 is sanitary money?

Belial, when i grow up i want to have your sense of humor!!