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| Execution Drug Supplier Won’t Say If It Alerted Financial Crimes Unit |
| By buzzfeed.com- Chris McDaniel |
| Published: 02/04/2016 |
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Over the past two and a half years, the state of Missouri has handed out $250,000 in cash to members of an execution team in an effort to keep their identities hidden. Its methods have raised questions about whether the state has followed federal law — but also whether at least one of the recipients of the cash payments complied with the law. Most of the execution team payments were in increments of several thousand dollars. But one recipient, a pharmacy in Oklahoma that provided drugs for several executions, received payments of $11,091. As BuzzFeed News revealed last week, the state has not been alerting the Internal Revenue Service to the payments. Experts said the state’s methods raise the risk that the recipients could be evading taxes, and is likely in violation of federal tax law. Further investigation of the “confidential execution team member receipts” reveals another potential legal issue. Anytime more than $10,000 in cash changes hands, the recipient is obligated to inform the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which investigates money laundering. Read More. |
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