Is money laundering really this easy?

Is money laundering really this easy?

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Idk. These shows portray it as so hard to get arrested for anything but in real life the America court system exists solely to railroad the little guy to earn money.

So either it is really hard to get away with stuff like that or feds just let certain people go.

That said, unless you get a team of people studying your books for months, you can probably get away with lot, at least in the tax side of things

Its simple in theory yes but the hard part is that you need to recruit a bunch of people into your conspiracy and that means people can rat you out or fuck up the plan by sheer stupidity. Once you get to really large sums the entire thing becomes to large you're basically forced to become an international criminal rather than a local one and that attracts a lot of attention.

Another thing they skipped over is that Jessie would have to explain where he got the initial money to buy or start the business. I mean its not like a high school drop out junkie typically has enough cash to just buy a fucking nail salon.

probably

I live here in phoenix and there are loads of auto shops and restaurants that have no customers but somehow stay open. Those are definitely money laundering businesses

i live in west london, UK and it's the same here, tons of iranian owned businesses that never have anyone in them but are always open for years, and run by drug dealers. obvious laundering operations but nothing ever happens.

I read somewhere that if you're under investigation, the IRS sometimes just sends a dude to watch your business operation the entire day from afar, and from the foot traffic alone they can ballpark if your revenue are legit.

Conventional money laundering is foolproof when done right. With Al Capone they knew exactly how he was laundering his money but still couldn't nail him for it, hence the tax evasion stuff. Cashless society is going to fuck it up, but as long as you have cash, it's impossible to prove you didn't earn it legitimately

in the basic version yeah. You have a company, you got 500$ income but you declare you had 1000$ and you add 500$ from dirty money so it checks out.

They would look at someone like Jessie Pinkman and audit the fuck out of him. You can get away with a lot by being boring and filling out a lot of paperwork. I can see someone like Gus getting away with it.

Same with all the African 'travel agencies'
It's not like they don't know you're a crook. The cops will have a good idea of who the big fish are on their patch. But if even they know some money is laundered, they can't prove shit, because a smart crook will keep it within reasonable limits that you could never prove in court weren't legit income.

He can just tell them he it got by making and selling meth

Is that a prequel to BCS?

Jimmy looks so young and fresh there

I forgot my money in the laundry one day

>Another thing they skipped over is that Jessie would have to explain where he got the initial money to buy or start the business. I mean its not like a high school drop out junkie typically has enough cash to just buy a fucking nail salon
No one cares about $50k or whatever chump change it takes to buy a small business. The IRS doesn't track that kind of transaction. No one would would ask a question.

if they look then yeah he's fucked (but probably not arrested or anything) but theres mostly nobody looking

no breaking bad season 4. that's when bob was younger

it was right about the bit where Skylar complained about the amount of 50's in Walt's dirty money, that kind of thing is a massive red flag when you keep depositing that at the bank

On a small scale it's easy, on a large scale it's extremely difficult to stay under the radar and if the taxman has you in his sights it's ogre.

everything over 10k is tracked and inspected

everything declared over 10k is tracked and inspected. if you don't declare it then they don't see shit til they audit on some other cause.

The taxman won't catch shit. Highly paid auditors from big 4 firms don't catch this stuff, even when it's blatant Enron style bullshit.
As long as you don't claim your little nail bar is clearing 100k a week bottom line, you can't be touched

international is several orders of magnitude worse, "petty cash" levels of undocumented money is basically free though.

It is
Ive been living off social security and bank fraud for 18 years now
Laundering is the easiest part of it all
Just pull a hokywood jew accounting and report losses

>Highly paid auditors from big 4 firms
>Highly paid

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.

I've made money reporting camwhores to the irs dude
They check your tips within the week of your report

International is a different ballgame and above my pay grade. Assume there's CAs in the Caymans who do it all for you. But a small time meth dealer owning a nail bar is never getting caught
An audit manager at Deloite or KPMG is clearing 100k plus bonus. Not the greatest, but more than the IRS goons for sure

Gemstones and gold
Fuck the goverment

>breaking bad threads start popping up left and right after I start rewatching the show
I knew I was part of a simulation. none of you are real.

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i could never finish breaking bad, im just here for the money laundering

if you keep noticing this shit they'll unplug you, mike

maybe the threads were always there and subliminally encouraged you to rewatch, and you're only now really noticing them because you're rewatching

I live right down the street from a vacuum sales/repair business that is always open during normal business hours but I've never seen anyone going in or out of it and the parking lot is always empty. I think it's the IRL version of the guy that helped Saul and Walter disappear.

thats every vacuum shop, they do real work and it costs a fuckton.

The moon follows me around at night, NOT YOU.

yeah not like BCS has started airing again and pushing a lot of people to go back

They aren't ran by criminals, we usually just contact smaller business who are in desperate need of money to stay open with an offer to get money by simply laundering drug money

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Doubt it. How !? Do they really agree that easily?

Thank you for your service, based.

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Depends. If an auditor shows up within 7 years of starting the business they will definitely want to know where the starting funds came from, and you’re legally required to provide paperwork to back your story.

>I sold all of my worldly possessions for cash. no receipts.
and then you're probably still fine

i think saul would just put together another distant relative inheritance scheme, like with ted

God YES.

The IRS says I'm legally obligated to declare the value of things that I have stolen and pay tax on them.
If I declare that I've stolen, hypothetically, 80k worth of hard drugs (to later resell), and I pay the appropriate tax on them, what are they going to do?

they're going to file it away

You must be over 18 to be posting here

>Highly paid auditors from big 4 firms don't catch this stuff, even when it's blatant Enron style bullshit.
Of fucking course they catch it, they just also accept the bribes to look the other way and pretend they didn't.
You have to be making enough that you can factor that into your budget or you absolutely will get fucked. As in most things, the only actual crime is being too poor.

There's a Vietnamese place in my shitty midwestern town that's always completely empty but always has numerous Viet people "working" there (you never see Asian people here normally, other than the rare Chinese). Mostly they just stand around and talk their gibberish to each other. 100% sure it's some sort of front but the food's actually pretty good so I don't care. Do Charlies have organized crime like the Japs do?

>Doubt it. How !? Do they really agree that easily?
yes, shit you can just tell them that you lost money in crypto because you fell for some pump-and-dump scheme and because it was on some exchange they can't actually track your money on the blockchain and they'd basically have to audit you and demand you hand over the full transaction history to prove you actually lost money and even then you can still fucking lie because they'd have to compare it to the exchange's actual list of transactions which they may or may not be able to get because your exchange is located in some tax haven bullshit place where the IRS has no jurisdiction and shit like that.

Viets mainly just extort other Viets.

depends on the cryptocurrency of course

For the most part, the IRS doesn’t care where your money is coming from as long as you’re paying taxes. Their job isn’t to catch drug manufacturers or distributors. Their job is to track the exchange of money and make sure the government is always getting its cut. The DEA and FBI are a different story, but as long as you’re running a tight enough ship for them not to be suspicious in the first place, or paying them off outright then you can get around them too. Which method you use usually coincides with the size of your operation and profits. Small time criminals can usually just stay under the radar by not doing anything to draw too much attention, while large scale operations can afford to buy off the necessary authorities and are better off doing it that way too because running a sizable illegal business is bound to draw attention eventually no matter how well you do it.

A friend of mine who's big into whores claims that a lot of girls at Asian massage places are semi-trafficked Vietnamese which is why he stopped patronizing them. Not sure how true it is since I've always been too autistic to go to one.

Nigger they track everything over $600 now.

pppppppp

Viets do some ooga-booga voodoo type shit and pay witchdoctors to cast spells on rival businesses. Sometimes it even leads to murder.

I knew a guy who used to sell “curses” on sites like ebay and a few others. Basically he would charge like a few hundred bucks or so and people would send him a bunch of info and pictures on the person they wanted to curse and then he’d send them back some stupid pics of himself like leaning over the pictures which he put in a pentagram that he’d draw with ketchup or whatever with a bunch of candles and then tell them it was done. He said it was usually asian women who would pay for that shit but even when they weren’t asian they were almost always women.

neat, i'd much rather have a proper office to do my cursing in.

They did a palor raid in Monroeville sometime back. They got Hu Xu. She owned the Tokoyo Massage Parlors.

"Four people were charged with various counts including conspiracy, corrupt organizations, trafficking in individuals, prostitution and dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities after a statewide grand jury found that young women working at the parlors were part of a human trafficking ring forced to perform sex acts."

You know what might sound like bullshit but is completely true? The curse guy I knew, his last name was Sneed.

look up shrimp man

shrimp boy my bad

i'll believe it

wow Bob with his real hair

LOL NO. you think a show where the drug cartel put up with the bullshit of a middle age teacher and some drugtard is accurate ?