nypost.com/2018/01/04/western-union-turned-blind-eye-to-money-laundering-officials/
>Three of the largest revenue-producing Western Union locations in New York — including two Big Apple locations run by a married couple — “willfully ignored” state banking rules over an eight-year stretch and allowed criminals to launder payments of nearly $3 billion to human traffickers in China, state officials said Thursday.
>All locations were involved in “structuring” transactions, in which large amounts of money were broken up into amounts smaller than $2,000, according to the settlement. Transactions of less than that amount do not require the sender to show ID.
>While the details of these transactions aren’t known, the owner of the Manhattan location “admitted to [investigators] that he knew that consumers paid their debt to human smugglers in China through Western Union,” according to a Justice Department settlement with the company last year.
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