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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (863863)6/9/2015 4:34:43 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1578761
 
Maybe. Charges haven't been filed. Doesn't mean they won't. It all depends on how his victim approached Denny. However, it is unlikely that he did it in such a way that made it legal. If he had contacted Denny and said "you know, I am still upset over what you did. But, a suitable sum of money would help assuage that. I would be willing to keep it between us if such payment was made". That might be legal because no real threat was made. If he said "else I am going public", that could be considered extortion. Chances are, he did make a threat, though. It would have been smarter to go to a lawyer and have the lawyer draw up documents that would pass muster.

No one really cares whether or not Hastert was paying off someone. Or at least anyone with legal authority. Perfectly legal and all that. But he broke the law by trying to do it undetected by withdrawing it less than $10k at a time. When the FBI eventually noticed, he then lied to them about it. Those were his two mistakes.

Money laundering is a serious problem. Which is why the government asserts the right to know about large transactions. Denny tried to circumvent them. The Feds have a lot of experience dealing with people far smarter trying to do that.

Denny was stupid. He should have brought a lawyer in from the beginning. I am not certain, not being a lawyer and all, but Denny likely could have paid the lawyer the money and the lawyer paid the victim, without anything being known exactly why said payments were made.
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