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FRAUD
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MONEY LAUNDERING &
FRAUD INVOLVING ACCESS DEVICES
MY CLOSED ACCOUNT WAS USED AS A PASS-THROUGH
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Unauthorized transactions were secretly executed in my “closed” Futures account on July 6, 2018 – months after its supposed closure at the end of March. The “Sweep payments” reported by the July 2018 Futures Statement served to obscure the source, recipient, and purpose of the transactions.
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As shown by the excerpt below:
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A debit for $16,345.96 is offset by three credits that total the same amount.
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The “Sweep Payment” transactions (i.e. cash transfers) were routed to and from several exchanges (CBOT, CME. COMEX, NYMEX), supposedly, but nothing else regarding the identity of the counterparties or the precise nature of these transactions can be discerned.
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I have maintained since 2018 that the Futures account was utilized as a conduit to launder stolen funds. These rogue transactions provide unique, substantive proof that my Futures account, and indeed my identity, was involved in unauthorized cash transfers without my knowledge. ​
​ Previously, that assertion relied on inferences drawn from discrepancies identified in the account balances, and comparisons of various records showing that historical data were altered to retroactively eliminate the Futures account from the accounting. Now, with a single page, the July 2018 Futures Statement proves that unauthorized funds were transferred through the Futures account.
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FRAUD INVOLVING ACCESS DEVICES
18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2)
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These facts indicate a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2), Fraud and related activity in connection with access devices: (“Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud traffics in or uses one or more unauthorized access devices during any one-year period, and by such conduct obtains anything of value aggregating $1,000 or more during that period…” (has committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1029(a)(2))
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Electronic sweep transfers were routed through my account labeled as “closed” and therefore involved the use of an unauthorized access device.
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The transactions were conducted using my identity, without my knowledge after I was restricted from accessing the supposedly “closed” account, thereby satisfying the “intent to defraud” requirement.
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As such, this qualifies as an offense under § 1029(a)(2).
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MONEY LAUNDERING
18 U.S.C. §1956(a)(1)(B)(i):
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Furthermore, this plausibly constitutes money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1956(a)(1)(B)(i):
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The transactions involved proceeds of a “specified unlawful activity6” which, under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(A), incorporates racketeering activities listed in § 1961(1), including § 1029 (access device fraud).
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The transactions served to conceal or disguise the nature, source, ownership, and control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, and accordingly satisfies the concealment prong of § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i).
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References:
18 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) defines "access device" to include any account number or other means of account access that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds) and § 1029(e)(3) (defining "unauthorized access device" to include any access device that is revoked or canceled).
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18 U.S.C. §1956(a)(1)(B)(i) states: “Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity— (B) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part— (i) to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity…” (emphasis added).
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