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to add a
*   provision to the seizure law forbidding any "structuring" of financial
*   transactions in a way so as to evade and existing requirement that cash
*   transfers of more than $10,000 had to be reported to the government.

[
    The New York Times, April 13, 1997

    U.S. Under Secretary Raymond W. Kelly signed an order on Aug 7th requiring
    New York businesses transmitting cash to report all transactions over
    $750. The order was not publicly announced. It is part of emergency
    powers. [President Clinton subsequently makes it permanent nationwide.]

    ----

    NYC Mayor and former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani has made
    some emphatic statements proposing $100 dollar bills be eliminated
    to combat drug dealers. Perhaps all cash will be next.
]

*   On November 11, 1993, apparently tipped off by a friendly bank clerk who
*   thought Alvarez's redeposits looked like "structuring", the Internal
*   Revenue Service seized $88,315.76, the life savings of a hard-working
*   immigrant.
*   
*   The government, of course, had no evidence that Alvarez was using the
*   money for improper purposes, or was in any way connected with drugs or
*   drug-dealing, for the simple reason that he wasn't doing any such thing.
*   
*   In this case, under the astonishing provisions of our nation's asset
*   forfeiture laws, the mere administrative finding that Alvarez had
*    "structured" his transactions was enough to justify the seizure.
[
    We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely
    (automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible
    ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us f