From: jdblair@phoenix.sas.muohio.edu (John Blair)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 12:23:48 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: TIS, SKE, & CyberCash Inc.
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> 
> Tim May writes:
> 
> >  I think we're somewhere in between, with some frightening laws on the
> >  horizon (look at the War on Drugs, civil forfeiture, tax laws,
> >  currency reporting requirements, health care proposals, etc.), but
> 
> No Joke. From what I hear, the feds are about to close on of the
> loopholes in currency reporting by extending the reporting requirments
> to wire transfers
> 

An article in todays WSJ describes these new requirements in more 
detail.  Organizations must now record all wire transfers, and report 
suspicious transactions to the feds.

-john.

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