Quote from: 2112 on March 16, 2015, 01:18:36 AM

Quote from: rikkie on March 16, 2015, 12:47:12 AM

There are a number of legit things that would have caused them to have that kind of cash in their home. Primarily it could be for bitcoin trading. They also apparently have a lot of money so it could be the equivalent of their "emergency" fund.

His wife said on her website that one of her client's (work) sites were searched which caused the client to fire her company which cost her company millions of dollars. If they have millions of dollars to lose then they probably have enormous amounts of money. If your company makes millions of dollars then $30k really doesn't sound like that much.

I do think that they probably do have the resources to make heads roll, assuming that Burt really was not involved in anything that was actually illegal (meaning he was not involved in SR2, or any other dark market site at all). It appears that a number of people make mistakes throughout the case, most interestingly the magistrate who apparently authorized search warrants without probable cause to seize attorney-client privileged information, and then the proper procedures were not followed when such information was taken

I kinda don't mind "legit" or "illegit". I'm interested in "sane". I can fully understand the grey market economy and life (all the way back to plight of Jews during WWII).

Keeping 30k$ at home with no obvious use or as an "emergency fund"? This just doesn't seem sane. Or it is a symptom of being disconnected and alienated from the extended family, neighbors, friends, etc.

Is there any more information about "wife's client's (work) sites that were searched"? I don't care about specifics, just the general business sector and the purpose of keeping funds in cash there.

Again, I'm not interested about legality or illegality. I'm more about the sanity and purpose of the lifestyle.

Well I would say that would not be all that uncommon for people with a lot of money, as much as they apparently have, to keep such a large amount of cash at home.

A 'sane' reason to keep that much money at home would be for bitcoin trading purposes, as it would probably be a bit of a hassle to have to go to the bank every time burt wanted to buy or sell large amounts of bitcoin, plus the fact that making a lot of cash deposits and withdrawals out of a personal account (he wouldn't have a business account because he was only doing it as a 'hobby') is a good way to get your bank account closed.

I am not sure what exactly Burt's wife's company does, not what the client does. Both the businesses names were redacted (and the locations Huh

) in a letter that she wrote and published in a different section on her site. I would say there is a good chance that it would be difficult/impossible to determine exactly what they do.