how can people in the organize crime business get by driving fancy cars, live in multi million homes, etc??

[Solodays]

if one does not have an legitimate job, how could they afford it? wouldn't that make them a little suspicious? and the triads in hong kong ride in rolls royce. i dont understand.

 

[tasmanian]

They dont care there so big it doesnt matter.

 

[ric1287]

money laundering

 

[chuckywang]

No evidence.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
No evidence.

Yup, how do murders get away?

 

[Solodays]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: chuckywang
No evidence.

Yup, how do murders get away?

well..murder is alot harder to track. but when u spend 300k on a freaking vehicle wouldn't that leave traces? all ur personal info and shlts to that matter are reveal.

 

[Nik]

There are tons of ways to do it. The absolute easiest answer is swiss bank account.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Solodays

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: chuckywang
No evidence.

Yup, how do murders get away?

well..murder is alot harder to track. but when u spend 300k on a freaking vehicle wouldn't that leave traces? all ur personal info and shlts to that matter are reveal.

Their purchase of the car is legit, where the money came from is the unprovable part.

 

[BrownTown]

Yes, you use some nice money laundering. Set up some front companies that operate at a loss but you act like they are doing real well and making tons of money, but really that money is coming from your illegal business. Very hard to track if youv'e done it right, you might remember some of the big gangsters got brought down not for sellign drugs or murder or even money laundering, but for tax evasion. Thats because its harder to prove WHERE the money is comming from than to prove that people aren't paying taxes on it. I mean if you launder your money through a restaurant, how can the feds prove where it came from? They would have to track down every possible customer and ask them what they spent and all. Any store that isn't required to keep detailed lists of customers can easily be used as a front to launder money and it would be VERY difficult to PROVE that some of the money was comming from other sources.

 

[compuwiz1]

You watch too much TV

 

[Pepsei]

and levels accountibility. it's hard to trace the orders all the way up to the boss... there's a code of silence.

 

[Linflas]

They have a "job" for tax purposes. The fictional Tony Soprano was a "Waste Management Consultant" and he "worked" for a trash company through which he received his benefits and documented income for IRS purposes.

 

[Fritzo]

They can do all that stuff because all their crime is organized.

What is organzied crime anyway? Do they have all of their deeds on Palm Pilots and in folders with color coded sticky tabs on them or something?

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
You watch too much TV

I think scarface was on HBO last night

 

[clamum]

"Uh, launder. To clean-- No. Wash-- Here it is. To conceal the source of money as by channeling it through an intermediary."

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Don't be so naive. They have many legit operations. They do pay taxes.