Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026

Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.

by Structured Settlement Watchdog®

The promotion of a wannabe “consumer guide to selling structured settlements” is tragically flawed and symbolically turning an old time confidence trick every day.

The hashtag #structuredsettlement is a minefield.  Each day these fools bomb Twitter with sky scraper images,  bearing the symbol of a petty thief, the “mitch*, boodle*,  Chicago Bank Roll, also known as the Michigan Bank Roll, which Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as slang for  “a roll of paper money consisting of a bill of large denomination on the outside of small denomination or counterfeit bills.

This is the image these knuckleheads chose to represent the idea of “How Selling Your Structured Settlement Works.”

Michigan Bank Roll

If a single image could sum up the staggering bad structured settlement factoring company business conduct between 2011-2015,  that continues to be exposed

*Source: Crooked Talk  Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, by Jonathon Green p21.

The structured settlement secondary market is an unlicensed and a large part conduct unregulated marketplace where the “boodlers” are slowly but surely being exposed. 

In the meantime it may be wise to stay  away from people who try to pass a “confidence trick” every day.

 

 

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