Not Technically Money Laundering...
Our team of dedicated Archivists handed me a clipping a while ago. It's one of those things you find as you do Archival work. They thought, and I agree, that it belongs on Guided By History.
All of us have minor phobias that we don't necessarily share with everyone. Some avoid under-cooked food
, some people are bowled over by odors
that no one else is even aware of. Some are acutely aware of germs
and general uncleanliness.
Well, this AP
image proves that where there's a clientele, there's a way. An ATM manufacturer found a way to sanitize Japanese bills as the machine dispensed them. It's from a 1996 item in the San Francisco Chronicle
, whose caption read, "the money-laundering device will ensure nothing more than clean cash gets transferred to supersensitive bank customers."
I haven't found if the machines are in operation.



