@ericgarland @willsdadbill A key point about laundered money:
It. Keeps. Moving.
So they don't just put a hundred billion under the dragon Smaug under the Lonely Mountain.
It gets reinvested.
Where did it come from?
How did it move?
Where did it end up?
Where is it now?
What more did it expose?
It. Keeps. Moving.
So they don't just put a hundred billion under the dragon Smaug under the Lonely Mountain.
It gets reinvested.
Where did it come from?
How did it move?
Where did it end up?
Where is it now?
What more did it expose?
@ericgarland @willsdadbill Any major unravelling is apt to reveal many other operations which can not bear further scrutiny.
But because the money keeps moving, it's not *just* a hundred billion in, say, real estate in Miami, or bank accounts in the Caymans.
What mortgages did those properties provide?
But because the money keeps moving, it's not *just* a hundred billion in, say, real estate in Miami, or bank accounts in the Caymans.
What mortgages did those properties provide?
@ericgarland @willsdadbill What loans were secured by that collateral?
What businesses are based in those properties?
What businesses are *ostensibly* based in those properties?
What rents are being paid?
What tenants are being paid off?
What tenants are being extorted?
What businesses are based in those properties?
What businesses are *ostensibly* based in those properties?
What rents are being paid?
What tenants are being paid off?
What tenants are being extorted?
@ericgarland @willsdadbill What cash flows are being driven by that control of the local economy, and where it is or is not affordable to live?
What use do those rents have in forcing people into criminal acts in order to find an "affordable" place to live?
What use do those rents have in forcing people into criminal acts in order to find an "affordable" place to live?
@ericgarland @willsdadbill How much is that influx of cash into a city's real estate pushing up the value of local properties for all owners, legitimate and illegitimate?
How much is it driving up rents for people just trying to make ends meet?
How much is it driving up rents for people just trying to make ends meet?
@ericgarland @willsdadbill How much is it making local business owners and politicians dependent on those capital flows?
Thereby making it that much harder to shut things down and track the money back?
Thereby making it that much harder to shut things down and track the money back?
@ericgarland @willsdadbill Etc. Etc.
And again, this is just the example of one potential set of laundered funds.
Now imagine trillions.
Constantly in motion.
"Constantly in motion, the laundered cash is. Impossible to see clearly."
Forensic Yoda
And again, this is just the example of one potential set of laundered funds.
Now imagine trillions.
Constantly in motion.
"Constantly in motion, the laundered cash is. Impossible to see clearly."
Forensic Yoda
@ericgarland @willsdadbill I should add one last, *trivial* detail.
Though I won't be going into the details now, the fate of all those offshored trillions is already sealed.
Utterly.
Or more precisely, is already *sealing.*
Now.
Specifically, for the last two months, and about two months to come.
Though I won't be going into the details now, the fate of all those offshored trillions is already sealed.
Utterly.
Or more precisely, is already *sealing.*
Now.
Specifically, for the last two months, and about two months to come.
@ericgarland @willsdadbill See you on the far side.
The vast precision & global scale with which these trillions in offshored, laundered money & assorted tax evasion are being decimated will be difficult for even supercomputers to grasp fully.
But we'll revisit it then.
@LincolnsBible @NatashaBertrand
The vast precision & global scale with which these trillions in offshored, laundered money & assorted tax evasion are being decimated will be difficult for even supercomputers to grasp fully.
But we'll revisit it then.
@LincolnsBible @NatashaBertrand
