According to the FBI, "while in operation, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from these unlawful transactions".
Southerners have long moaned that too many of "their" tax dollars, derived mainly from gaming and tourism, flow north.
The top seven members of our list this year all have built billion-dollar fortunes derived from stock listings in Hong Kong or the U.S.
According to an indictment in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Officer Acosta used a police car in mid-2005 "to rob a drug courier of several hundred thousand dollars in cash derived from a drug deal" that involved Mr. Corniel-Perez.
"Million Dollar Baby," though derived from much better source material, walked through a minefield of clichés and emerged as a masterpiece.
Its members played prominent roles in the day-to-day operations of the country's state security apparatus, as bodyguards, enforcers and secret-police chiefs, and the cousins who now live outside Iraq have access to tens of millions of dollars, much of it derived from smuggling oil, military equipment and other goods in and out of Iraq under Mr. Hussein, the American officials said.
Presumably, this is the sort of thing that the Chicago-reunion organizers had in mind when they wrote, "Mississippi white racists have discovered the millions of dollars that can be derived from tourism pertaining to the legacy of the civil rights movement".
This is a weighted average of short-term interest rates, corporate-bond yields, share prices and the trade-weighted dollar, with the weights derived from the Fed's model.
In New York Attorney General Spitzer all but welcomed private lawsuits against Marsh, saying: "Other victims here are Marsh's own shareholders, who have never been told of the hundreds of millions of dollars of Marsh's profits derived from illegal activity".
