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I assume if she was a teller and saw, say $100MM, in an account assigned to him, it wouldn't be unimaginable for her to believe whatever story he conjures up.
Also he paid her half a million (a million in today's money) for her help. Less a wife, and more a special kind of legally protected employee.
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Somewhat related quote: "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence as long as you are a state you are fine. Plenty of current examples from all types of states.
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Somewhat related quote: "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
This reminds me of: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." - Jean Rostand
He or she was talking about the deaths in siviet goulags.
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American (and thus international) banking seems to work on the somehow backwads principle of allowing allmost any transaction without any real authorization (eg. credits cards, direct debits, checks and such, where only thing you really need to know for the transaction to happen is some semi-public number) and dealing with possible issues after the fact On the other hand the system is pretty good at finding the party…
Somewhat tangential but relevant: As I'm currently moving I spent some part of the afternoon by changing periodic payments setup on my bank account and was somehow amused by the "create transaction" menu in my (european) banks' web application. There is menu item which essentially says "Direct debit (this is probably not what you want)".
Think of a last-pass for all your varied accounts, where the service allows you to update your core information and then select which of your accounts who have subscribed to your profile info should just be updated by the service.
So if you move - with one click, update all your linked account details for zip/billing/shipping/etc...
Obviously provide a diff review opportunity and a MFA heavy confirmation process - but with an easily revertible process as well.
as well as monitoring of logins to all, and alerts for any changes to any...