Just an FYI, we don't have secret police in the United States. The "Secret Service" is as much a public law enforcement organization as the FBI, for example. They're so named because they're an executive agency independent of DOJ and they have law enforcement authority. They're not above the law.

Just FYI, eGold did support child porn, fraud, and probably terrorism, if only by negligence and inaction. The prosecutor's indictment clearly spells that out, showing how the company was aware or at least suspected that dozens of customers were involved in illegal activity and did nothing. The evidence is in the company's own files, seized by the FBI and USSS.

Yes, the indictment is for unauthorized transfer and criminal laundering, but it is entirely within the established evidence, laid out in the unsealed indictment, to accuse eGold of tacit approval of scammers, pornographers, and unknown other criminal elements.

Federal prosecutions in the United States are *exceedingly rare*, meaning that eGold, simply put, was grossly negligent. The fact that eGold's business was not lawfully registered here is another point to consider -- eGold broke the law, no matter whom they transferred money for.

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