Originally Posted by
gbryan84
IThe second thing is getting around the SAR with your bank. I used to have 2 bank accounts that I would use to make the deposits into. I screwed up once and made about 20k in withdrawals over the period of a month into one account rather than split it up. That account was flaged by the bank and they questioned my international wires. I closed the account 3 months later. I still do this but now do not do more than 10k per month as I only have one bank account.
SARs are a damn'd interesting subject. I finally realized why Amex gave me such grief over my $50k a month tab I was running when I went to a FinCEN conference when I worked within financial services. Now I'm an expert on SARs.