The Importance of Structuring a System

The money laundering laws were put in place because it was so common for drug dealers to engage in cash transactions. But people who are engaged in criminal behavior, narcotics traffickers and organized crime don't want a paper record of it. So what they did was put these laws in so that people had to identify where the money came from. That's so structuring that you refer to is like, I get $12,000 on a drug deal, say,. So I'll break it into four different deposits of $3,000 to make sure I don't hit the 10 grand mark, which triggers the currency transaction report. The banks detect this kind of activity. They see my $ 3,000