Conspiracy question: Which businesses are most closely associated with money laundering?
8 2017-12-08 by OB1_kenobi
The title is the question. I have a couple of ideas. A quick search on Google using the same terms doesn't turn up much.
So I'm hoping for a few good examples and we'll see if a few certain types of businesses get mentioned more often.
29 comments
1 Question_History 2017-12-08
Art, easily
1 gnome_saiyan 2017-12-08
Comet ping pong is definitely in the business of laundering money through art
1 Question_History 2017-12-08
Idk about that, although I believe they are laundering through their pizza business though.
However, the Podestas on the other hand have mass amounts of expensive art, and the Art in the Embassies program allowed them to ship art without strict regulations, which screams laundering.
1 TuxAndMe 2017-12-08
also screams human trafficking
1 martini-meow 2017-12-08
Pegasus museum or something?
1 Squishyisbest 2017-12-08
Real estate
1 RecoveringGrace 2017-12-08
Restaurants, bars and strip joints are up there. Also, private waste disposal and recycling businesses. Most alcohol distribution companies have mafia ties.
1 Ninjakick666 2017-12-08
The Sicilians who came to the United States during the mid-1960'searly 1970's became involved in cash flow businesses, though the great majority worked in pizzerias controlled either by the American LCN or earlier Sicilian Mafia arrivals in the United States. The Pennsylvania Crime Commission did an exhaustive study of the cheese and pizza industry and concluded in 1980 that much of the industry was controlled by "organized crime"
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/104362NCJRS.pdf
1 Letterbocks 2017-12-08
Ahh yeah olive oil too
1 mastigia 2017-12-08
Ugh, don't remind me.
1 resection8 2017-12-08
Laundromats, wash-and-folds, hourly cleaning services for hire.
Pretty much any cash-based business with minimal overhead and a good accountant could hide the numbers that are "fudgy"
1 NoYamShazam 2017-12-08
A cooperative bank.
1 atavisticbeast 2017-12-08
Any business with a high volume of cash sales, for medium and small "players." think like, strip clubs, bars, arcades, laundromats, car washes, etc.
for the big boys (laundering millions of dollars), real estate and art are the primary means.
1 piles_of_SSRIs 2017-12-08
The banks
1 RMFN 2017-12-08
This.
1 Squirrelboy85 2017-12-08
Mattress and furniture stores are the best for it if you want it to go unnoticed for a long time
1 DownWithTopMinds 2017-12-08
The Secret Service
1 RMFN 2017-12-08
Banks.
1 HalfwayIllumined 2017-12-08
Movies
1 Letterbocks 2017-12-08
Art
1 LeftOfTheDials 2017-12-08
For low level stuff any business that deals mainly in cash.
1 dotlinefever3 2017-12-08
two that ive known people to use is antiques and auto detailing shops.
Id have to imagine a new one would be small computer repair shops.
1 groman31 2017-12-08
Real estate, high art, casinos
1 Weirdbhamcall 2017-12-08
Non chain, typically Asian family run restaurants, laundromats, hair salons, Nail and tanning salons, mattress stores. Also I'd assume stores that don't sell a lot of a stuff, but that sell expensive products. (Mattress stores for example)
1 superdanknotes 2017-12-08
Casinos
1 saphiresheen 2017-12-08
For the owner to launder money, a restaurant.
For the customer, a casino.
I once received 1700 dollars from the mafia. So I went to a poker room, and paid for 1700 in chips. I sat there for hours and played only pocket aces. Eventually, they counted out the till, did their bookkeeping, took a bunch of cash to their treasury room, and restocked with fresh cash.
When I cashed out, my body there said, "Hey, sorry, but we are out of hundreds. All I've got are these old 20s. Hope that's OK."
I didn't have to tell anyone I was laundering my cash. It was obvious to them from my behaviors. I am not sure if they would've broken out 20s for just anyone, but I was on friendly terms with the staff. I am sure they wouldn't have done anything to prevent anybody else from getting away with it.
1 DereIzNoPoint 2017-12-08
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-money-laundering
1 too_original 2017-12-08
Churches
1 OB1_kenobi 2017-12-08
Or charities perhaps?