I think there's a larger issue at play here. The standard for "knowingly selling" for AML regulated businesses and a gas station are vastly different. That's wh

I think there's a larger issue at play here. The standard for "knowingly selling" for AML regulated businesses and a gas station are vastly different. That's why you never heard of a gas station getting charged for that, and there probably never has been. I believe the point was that AML regulations only apply to some categories of businesses and others not, which makes them ineffective. They can be a slight annoyance to criminals but they do not stop them. For money transmission, it is trivial to work around them. And for spending, at a gas station, there's no problem at all. It is is just all a very costly and ineffective security theater, not to mention the many moral issues that come with it (e.g. billions of law-abiding, unbanked people).