12-22-2021, 09:44 AM
(12-22-2021, 08:07 AM)cemanuel Wrote: "This gal was precuring Federal grants for the city of Dixon, IL without their knowledge, then diverting the funds."It was over the top and went on for years. She was just laundering huge money right under their noses. I think she was out of town and an office assistant found a ledger with money skirting around the city's accounts. She was just funding a fantasy hobby and hobnobbing with the elite in the business who would fly in an buy horses. It was pled down to odd charges and they knew she would be old when released. They held an auction and recovered nowhere near all of the money. When the money is free you don't have to be great at purchasing at the correct price for resale.
Took a look at her Wikipedia page. Crazy. Though she wasn't using the horse business to carry out what she was doing; it was where the money went (from what I read). I was thinking more of the background reason for calling carriers of illegal goods "mules" and all of the fun ways to use horses to transport, er, cargo. That and there's all the less obvious things like nerving/doping a horse, having a buyer use your recommended vet for the vet check, blah, blah, blah. That was one swashbuckling sort of business.
