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Is there any chance that the $475,000 was a payment to GW for the info he produced leading to the arrests in NB? Seems like a very high amount.
I would say next to zero.
I think he withdrew the cash because COVID turned him into a doomsday prepper type. To me he fits the profile of someone who operates under a "don't trust anyone" philosophy. His parking lot encounter with the HPD has a huge anti-authority vibe.
The article also says that it’s highly irregular for a citizen to get their money from Brinks..,
I haven’t followed the story closely—did they recover the 475K?
I’m not convinced he was an agent of any sort yet. There could have been something about to happen involving a debt or lawsuit and he wanted to squirrel away money.
If—and I don’t know this—he was splitting with his common-law girlfriend, maybe he was going to hide assets?
If he was an agent of sorts, why didn’t the RCMP know of his replica cars and clothes. I’d think they would have checked out every detail about him.
I was told a long time a go by a teller at TD they flag anyone who takes 10k cash at once, and watch out for any patterns for possible money laundering. I didn't even think you could redrawth 500k from a regular bank. Brinks is in the cash business though... maybe it's easier and raises less reg flags
Yes you can but the bank would need to order the cash so they wouldn’t deplete their regular available cash.
Any amount of $10,000 that is withdrawn or deposited you just need to sign a legal form saying where the money is from etc. That’s a legal requirement in Canada to prevent money laundering. For him I would assume it was his personal or business account.
I’d guess the transaction was associated with his dental business and he may well have been involved in money laundering. This was not a person who was a law abiding citizen.
But something I noticed contained in the released warrants iirc, police noted a female recorded voice indicating the denture business was closed due to COVID-19 and anticipated to reopen mid April. I’d guess this recording was placed around mid-March, when the closure of business began. I can’t remember the exact date it was to reopen and I will look later, but the date a few days prior to the gunman’s massacre. Given he appeared to be a compulsive sort of person I thought it was interesting that recording hadn’t been updated to a tentative future date.
So just based on that, the remote and far out possibility occurred to me the $475,000 cash on Mar 30th were proceeds of the sale of the business. Not saying I’m right, but that the abandoned business phone recording seems unusual to me. In one of the media reports was there also a reference to his impending semi-retirement at Portapique as well?
This is all purely speculation but as it’d be very easy to trace money sent by the RCMP or from any other source, I don’t think the $475,000 is destined to become an unsolved mystery intertwined with conspiracy theories involving the RCMP.
Well the answering machine message wasn’t unusual because there was no business in Canada that knew when they would be allowed to re-open by govt. So it wouldn’t make any sense to leave a guessed at date.
Yes I agree and that was my point, March 19th a recording saying the business was closed to Apr 15th when they would reassess, then no update. The shootings occurred Apr 18/19th.
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I was pointing that out simply because you had mentioned that you were surprised that he hadn’t put a date. Geez I was so naive back then thinking that this - the closure of everything - would only last a few weeks. Nope.
Maclean's really went off the deep end with this story. Sorry to see MMM resorting to such desperate measures. I wonder if GW spent too much time reading sensationalist media stories about Covid-19.A new story at CBC:
N.S. gunman liquidated assets, stockpiled gas and food due to COVID-19 fears, RCMP say
Shooter told people he created a replica police cruiser to pay tribute to fallen officers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...investigation-gunman-covid-paranoia-1.5628184
an excerpt:
Campbell said RCMP discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in a fire-proof container on one of the properties Wortman owned in Portapique. He said investigators are auditing his financial records and would not specify the exact amount of cash seized.
So far, he said they think the gunman believed it wasn't safe to leave his savings in the bank.
The article also addresses the Maclean's story. They interviewed someone who actually was police informant about how he received payments.
Worth a read!
MOO
Maclean's really went off the deep end with this story. Sorry to see MMM resorting to such desperate measures. I wonder if GW spent too much time reading sensationalist media stories about Covid-19.
I've know a couple of people, including one around that same time, get all worked up by the media and declare that it would be better to take your life savings out of the bank and hide it under the mattress. At least GW bought a fireproof safe - I guess he had a premonition someone would set fire to his house.