Well, the thing is – if someone says 'No," when they actually have $2000 in a savings account, that’s not as easy to point at and say, “A ha! You must have known this would apply!”
But when you’re talking about amounts close to a hundred thousand dollars, there’s just no wriggle room.
So I would opine that no, perjury like this is not normally a “let slide,” situation. It’s just that normally, defendants who have a credible claim to being indigent don’t secretly have nearly $100,000 stashed away.
Actually, all they appear to know is that “over $10,000 = bad.” They acted like they DIDN’T know about structuring, since they committed it.
The $10,000 CTR rule is well-known, and, indeed, the first attempt to withdraw $10,000 would have resulted in a bank teller saying that Ms. Z needed to supply information.
Finally, as I may have mentioned once or twice, the office of Virgina magistrate is not particularly complex, does not require a law degree, and in no event does it concern itself with federal money law, which this is.
I was mostly correcting my own statement above, not challenging yours but I thought it was additive to your explanation in light of the new information.
The transfer of money to family member in small chucks is legal but it helps establish intent which would be more difficult with only the cash transactions which could more easily be explained.
They would need to pay the gift tax next year but that is of no concern now.
All of this as meeting the standard for a person to be charged, we obviously do not have enough information to convict.
From everything I have read (which includes transcripts from the bail hearing and recorded phone conversations from the jail) they both knew damned good and well how much, more or less, was in that fund/account. They were speaking in (a ridiculously transparent) code and conspiring to lie about it.
I think this is DIRECTLY relevent to the case against Zimmerman, in that it speaks to his credibility, his willingness to commit (or allow his wife to commit) perjury to benefit himself. And since this case ultimately comes down to his word against a dead man’s, the worth of his word is crucial. This, if allowed to be raised at trial, definately raises reasonable doubt re’ his honesty and character.
I find it amazing (though not terribly surprising) that donations to his fund INCREASED after the revelation that he and his wife were conspiring to KEEP the funds, donated for his legal defense, were planning on sticking the TAXPAYERS with his defense bill, and had already spent about 20 grand on “personal expenses” (housing/hotels, security, misc.) That’s a significant amount of money to go through in such a short time; seems there might have been some living high on the hog involved :dubious:)
Yes, and won’t the irony be extra sweet and delicious if all these donations end up going to the Martin’s in the event there is a civil suit. I’m sure that’s the last thing his donors want, but it could happen if he takes a plea deal.
It wasn’t much of a code and he was calling from jail. Would you want your fellow inmates to know how much money you had?
I doubt that the jury will be allowed to hear that the defendents wife lied at the bond hearing. It had nothing to do with the events of the evening of the shooting and would just serve to confuse the jury. The defense “should” respond that Zimmerman turned himself in to police when he was asked to. Twice.
Many people donated to Zimmerman’s defense because of the continuous barrage of lynch mob media reports, Al Sharpton’s hate mongering, Spike Lee’s giving out any Zimmerman’s address, the Martin families registering several phrases so they could make money from their son’s death, the fact that Zimmerman was driven from his home, employment, and school classes by the death threats led by the New Black Panthers, and Corey’s over-the-top 2nd degree murder charge and pursuit of Zimmerman’s wife. It’s their money and their choice.
What would it cost you and a 2nd person to live in a hotel, order food, rent a car, hire a body guard, and pay legal fees for a month?
Yes, and this little bit of knowledge, often wrongly applied, makes many innocent people into criminals.
Really, there’s no big deal about a CTR. Unless you are under investigation for something else, it is never even looked at. It triggers nothing. Millions and millions are filed.
BUT the attempt to get around said CTR will often trigger a SAR, and those are all looked into.
In this case, with the wires, since no cash was involved, there would have been no CTR anyway. The “C” stands for “currency” .
My WAG is that the Zimmermans were trying to hide assets from the inevitable lawsuit.
Was he referring to the partial evidence that Corey allowed the judge to see up to this point? Since it’s obvious that Corey didn’t tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the little evidence that she did share with the judge must look pretty strong.
What was that evidence again? Something about “My name is Corey and you will charge this latino with 2nd deg murder. NOW. Thanks judge.”
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