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Chrismarshall 8 points ago +8 / -0

Wait. How can he launder it? The art is gone and can’t be re-sold?

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Tendies4Patriots 11 points ago +11 / -0

It’s about getting anonymous funds from God knows where into the right hands and cleanly into the US banking system.

Laundering money 101: it’s all about getting dirty money into the system, the rest of it (lost value, etc) doesn’t matter.

I work in finance and we see people try to take out $1M accounts with 10% early termination penalties (designed for institutions and VERY long term investors) and they will turn around and happily try to withdraw the funds a day later losing $100k. It’s all about getting the initial funds in the channel. Luckily, it rarely happens because we have safeguards....