Gotcha! Money-laundering, Entrapment, and Scamming the Scammers.

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Original broadcast

  • Thursday, May 15th, 2008 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Your hosts: Robin, dan, Luis, Vanessa

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Rebroadcasts

  • Sunday, May 18th, 2008 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Featured Vocaleros: t-dub, wendy, Inferno Mobile ..., Robin

The Rundown

Today’s Sun-Times has the story of a local millionaire who just pled guilty to money-laundering— caught in an FBI sting—which made us ask:

  • Hey, how does this money-laundering thing work, anyway? 
  • The FBI apparently asked this guy to “wash” what it said was $80,000 in drug money.  Isn’t that entrapment?  (If so, it’s not the dirtiest FBI trick in memory—in the early 1990s, for Operation Silver Shovel, the FBI actually dumped illegal-- and possibly hazardous?-- waste in some Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods, in order to sting a few City Council members.) 
  • There are some wild stories out there of people outwitting Internet scammers.  Robin has one about a guy who got one of them to make elaborate wood carvings… twice.  Have you got another one?

Oh, and we’ll check in on the R. Kelly trial. Annnnd... is the CTA  screwing the West Side on purpose or what?

Playlist

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  1. Testing
    Seeing if saving works.
  2. birdie ID
    birdie ID
    Audio
    Segment by wendy
    May 15, 2008
  3. Eddie Bass_ The Reason I Did this About My Life.mp3
    Eddie Bass_ The Reason I Did this About My Life.mp3
    Audio
    Segment by Inferno Mobile Recording Studio
    May 3, 2008
  4. STORY_SydUrbanExploreGary4Church_Robin.mp3
    STORY_SydUrbanExploreGary4Church_Robin.mp3
    Audio
    Segment by Robin
    Aug 17, 2007

Comments

1 Comment by Syed | 05.15.08 | 04:05 pm
Hey, did you ever hear that love song about meeting someone through an ad. It was an old school rock-country song.