Professor Fact Checks Money Laundering Scenes, from 'Ozark' to 'Narcos' | Vanity Fair 

The most successful front in America... GNC!

Like go on youtube as a criminal and there you have it ! LMAO

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They also good at making cult movie. Just too good make you wonder whether is it a coincidence that Scientology HQ is based in Hollywood

Not Another Independant Movie had a $3million budget, made low 5 figures. Maybe it wasn't all spent on director's cocaine...

Wasn't Hollywood tied with the Italian Mafia for some time? Sure films were financed by them.

They know a thing or two, cause they’ve seen a thing or tow

movies or tv shows don't cost $2 billion to make.

@acidtooth umm commenting your evidence of criminal activity on social media sites ?

@acidtooth Seeing that you are free to post on RU-vid, I guess it's drug possession. Because Uncle Sam is more lenient on drugs than those who take her tax dues

growlingbehemoth Exactly! How can people expect someone to pay for his crimes for the rest of his life?

Unless you are Donald Trump. Then it's fine

In a democracy, the State serves the people and, therefore, Tax Evasion is a worst crime since it affects the whole of the population. One might argue my view of democracy does not match reality and I'll reply "I agree! What are you doing to fix it?" ... well ... in case I get "no, what YOU are doing?!" I'll say: posting comments on RU-vid and voting every election.

I can't stand looking or listening to her just because she is without a doubt the stereotypical liberal nutjob college professor. I would bet she has a speech about how money laundering prosecutions disproportionately affect POCs or something 🙄🙄

@@theloanranger2632 Sounds like you might have unaddressed issues man.

@@jakeoncrack I just said what my issue was and addressed it by announcing it to the public. Can you not comprehend what people write because you're stupid or are you just saying things that are stupid but sound smart on the surface until you really think about it?

@@theloanranger2632 No I think you've got other things going on xD try actually talking to women...

@@jakeoncrack I'm talking to you aren't I? You're pretty feminine beating around the bush and unable to make a clear statement Mr. Fairy Dust. Try actually talking to women and see for yourself xD xD.

Drugs, my friend.

@@vistelle Right, I've shot up an armload of skag. What's the next step?

Dig in the desert, apparently that's where all drug kings put their money

@@kevblloyd Bahaha, your comment made me laugh. Well played. Though to needlessly remove all of the humour, I think skag means heroin right? And I don't think heroin is the money ticket. Cocaine is less lethal, costs more and your clientele will likely be less sketchy.

Easy, buy some drugs and sell them at a markup..

Maybe because she's at home and using her webcam or something 🤔

they usually have a camera and a Zoom meeting that are both recording them

I’m studying video editing and that side shot would never fly with my teacher.

@@reachground It looks horrid.

They want to show off that large circular thingy? Wtf is that anyway?

That's hilarious. Mobsters turned optometrists.

good for them lol

Mobtometry

I think that one three dimensional piece sticking out of the wall on the left is very distracting ... it looks like the bottom of a barrel that someone decided to mount and hang on a wall my eye kept drifting towards it even though I don't care for it .

@James Spittle yeah I know I feel that it probably doesn't have a function and is just something I would never put on my wall

@James Spittle it most likely does otherwise it would have no reason to jut out. That just is not how design works.

You mean kitschy?

@@samaraisnt you never know because there's a lot of stuff that's been passing as art for a very long time now and some of it come inside prices .

@Terror Shark 🙂

Jessie "I'm a drug dealer?" Saul "Ehh!, hundred times worse. You're a tax evader" hahaaaa

actually, judging by her comments, tv tends to get money laundering quite right. i mean compare this video to the one about hacking...

100th like

Yes she really loves her job and makes it fun for those who are listening .

Alot of it does.

I have always been suspicious of the gaudy art dealers with shops off of Central Park South in Manhattan. I think a couple years ago the owner of one of them was implicated in a massive poker ring, so suspicions confirmed.

Art like that is typically handled by big name companies and auction houses. If an average person were to claim to own a $15 million painting and "sell" one, you would get audited by the IRS immediately

@@user-ec6qj1lc3c Yeah, and the mob owns the auction houses...

@@user-ec6qj1lc3c i thought the value of art was subjective, so what would the IRS do against them?

Any notes or book you recommend for deep dive

Atiba Maule Like launder money?

Definitely made me think to myself, "you idiot" about two restaurants near where I grew up that were decrepit but still open for many years with, in one case, no apparent customers. (The other one pretty regularly had 1 to 2 black Cadillac or Lincoln sedans parked out front (1980's), but no other cars.) Well of course that is what they were doing. And no, not New York or New Jersey. I'd like to think that I would have been "wiser" to the situation if I grew up there.

Same here I've seen a few businesses and they have no customer traffic whatsoever yet are still open after yrs

In my little german hometown, there used to be an asian restaurant next to the train station. It was never open, when it was, it was for chinese holiday celebration and the menu was clearly improvised. The only people ever going in and out were asian businessmen in grey suits ^^ I THINK that was an illegitimate business;) The city one day decided they needed the lot and demolished it to redesign the area...5 years later...i THINK they were tired of the obvious bullsh going on^^

In my college town there was a tropical fish store that didn’t even try and sell anything, always thought they were laundering money. Year later they got busted and it turns out they were laundering for local weed dealers.

Probably more likely that those business owners are a few million in debt...

that's why you make your front businesses have good food.

Are u Korean ?

Imagine if law enforcement put those resources towards stopping pedos and rapists and wife beaters instead of putting all their efforts into illegal things that fund their paychecks.

@@moshikamboshi1 he's Italian. Are u kidding me rn???

@@blancoguwopp2707 thank u!

I hope I can help launder money and use it for a good purpose, like actually charities and building houses schools and hospitals.

Yasss

Although at the beginning he had to launder about $6m in a short period of time and he only had the bar and the strip joint to do it - not at all likely.

@@capitalb5889 i believe a major part of it went in as investment.

Ozark be the best...

Trust me

Did you see the one with the Psychiatrist answering Twitter questions? Soooo good!!

Their logic is that if it was bad, it would be illegal. If it is not illegal, it is allowed, and if it is allowed, you both can and should do it. Because if not, you'll be undercut by someone who will. That might be different company, or an aspiring CEO in your own company who can tell the board how to improve the bottom line by just moving numbers around and explicitly not doing anything illegal. Individual capitalists may, on occasion, moderate themselves. These are inconsistent exceptions and should be disregarded. Capitalism does not regulate itself, that is fable for children. It must be regulated politically, and it is the failure of cowardly, incompetent or corrupt lawmakers that is to blame for current predicament. (In any country) Countries that have grasped this basic fact and have the strength of will to regulate the rich are called social democracies.

Sorry that was a bit of a rant, not aimed at you

Sociailsm is socialism., sticking decmoracy before after it doesnt change that.

No, she doesn't "basically admit that shell companies are basically fronts". There are lots of reasons to have a shell company. The most common one is if you own several unrelated businesses. They can be used AS fronts, but that isn't remotely the main reason for them.

You ignoramus! That's a top hat! (for hiding the money)

She’d have to think of something else, the money would rot.

You.know what they say...hide it in plain site

@@sdesantino if you push the top hat the circle on the right pops out of the wall

Yeah right? Or one of the other suspicious holes in her walls...

Every Book has a kernel of truth in it... stuff like this, goldmine

A “writer” yes

As a money launderer, I consider this video golf for research materials.

Sign me up!

Sounds like whoever ran it must've sucked at covert money laundering

Near my area there are four free laundromats, all owned by the same Chinese businessman. I've often wondered if it was something like that. Otherwise, what's the point of running a 'business' that isn't making any money?

@@TomorrowWeLive free how? Like you can do your washing and drying for free?

@@theloniousmorphy apparently

Tomorrow We Live at least they’re generous criminals, not charging the locals

*Laughs in subprime mortgage-backed securities*

I think it is the first serious job by a teenage vlogger. They live for jumpcuts and crappy crops. I personally listened without watching

Made me lol have many sentences were cut together too. It's so bad now that I think I tuned it out like clock ticking unless looking for it.

A two-party system is only slightly better than a one-party system.

no, you meant: "Earn your money the legitimate way: Package trash investments together, call them safe investments, and sell trillions of dollars worth of them to people who are barely living better than paycheck-to-paycheck. Or, pump oil out of a rainforest and dump the toxic waste into the river!"

@Chaos Burrito it would be incredibly suspicious if a talent agency didn't keep track of that while all the other ones do

@Ralph Reefers I mean I've had the idea of using a struggling artist to use a photography/graphic design and other small art jobs like directors, acting, writing, and a bunch more

You would loose the money.... Not clean it....

"Under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit!"

High level CCP officials has been doing this for years in China, that's one reason why Chinese films suck that much.

the montage makes it look easy tho

Right because there are only two levels of difficulty easy and not easy. Good one.

tbh they make it sound like a fairly simple process. Granted, doing it in purpose is probably harder but it doesn't sound very hard when they explain it

I think the point is more they make it out like most people can do it and it is do-able to not get caught.

It doesn't seem hard it's just really risky. It's essentially high risk tax evasion...evading taxes isn't hard, you just wouldn't want to get caught lol.

Matresses are legit

Mattresses are a high gross profit margin item. They a regularly marked up 50% or more. That $1000 mattress is probably $500-$700 in profit after paying your salesperson. Contrast that with a computer in which a $1000 computer is only around $50 profit after paying your salesperson. If the mattress store sells 5 mattresses a day, they a probably making more money than a computer store that sold 100 units. Also mattress stores a pretty low maintenance. They are usually a warehouse without fancy displays. Not to mention they can also make a profit on delivery (which most people will buy).

It's the people buying gold and pawn shops that are money laundering

That was a nice touch

i remember seeing a big chinese restaurant near a tourist hotspot at the beach in germany that was always open but never had any guests. that was suspicious too

A couple venues in my area are fronts, one for cannabis, one for ecstasy, and a car dealership for cocaine and maybe heroin. The one for ecstasy is a real open secret, especially for the types of shows they do. They're pretty much just keeping it all in house, almost like vertical integration.

In my area there are four free laundromats, all owned by the same Chinese businessman. I've often wondered if it was something like that. Otherwise, what's the point of running a 'business' that don't making any money?

@@animal0mother And you just know all this because..?

That’s all of Orange County.

Ordinary there’s a rule of having a camera move every 6 or so seconds when on an interview There really should be a second camera angle instead of zoom and zoom out at every natural break in a sentence

Marginally better than jump cuts. Marginally.

Thank you!

This was probably a remote interview. Because of social distancing guidelines right now you can't really send a camera team to do the interview or bring someone in to a studio, so the person getting interviewed probably recorded themselves and chances are they don't have the best cameras out there, or a photography director to tell them where to set the cameras, hence why you get one basic angle and one odd angle. It's not necessarily the editor's fault, sometimes their job is to try and make the best out of a bad situation or in this case crappy footage.

They probably cut out a lot more than "half-second gaps" - ie. the directors asking her to clarify something, hemming and hawing, getting lost in tangents, misspeaking, etc... you have no idea what the original footage was like, so you can't say whether it would have been better unedited.

I understood that reference

Same

So it wasnt just me 😂

in Ozark they really do put the money in the washing machine (dry, no water or soap), to make it look used. [edit] Oh that's actually in this video haha.

@@GerbenWijnja Seen it in other movies as well. Usually when it's illegally printed money with stolen plates or something.

If she wanted to flex she'd mention that she speaks Arabic and worked on this stuff in Iraq, too.

@@doug99 oh wow, really?

@@thebatonmaster Yeah, I went to her school. I didn't take her classes (I was in a different program), but I ended up working in anti-money laundering for a while anyway. She's had me as a guest speaker in her classes a couple of times. She does consulting for government agencies as well as being a professor.

@@doug99 Wow, me too.

There was a "used car dealership" in my old neighborhood that literally never sold a single car. No one was ever there, it was just a small shed with 10 to 20 cars in the parking lot. I'm 900% sure it was a drug money laundering front.

@@michaelstark7388 haha I think you accidentally replied to this guy's comment

@@michaelstark7388 this is the best reply I have ever seen

@@happyone234 there is another comment exactly like this posted 7 months ago

I love when she mentions neighbor businesses that don’t appear to make money but stay open year after year. I’ve always wondered if those businesses and whether they are fronts. It’s a total possibility.

@@mandiecary8190 Why is your comment the exact same as Vane San's: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U0e7OCfAO64.html&lc=UgwHh1dwT2mDZ1H1zbR4AaABAg ?

Or create a foundation and "sell" access to important leaders in government and business...

Or make up a bunch of BS about global warming, then get rich selling green energy tax credits.

@@farmalmta sure.. 🤡

Some are, but they also tend to sell big ticket items, so a few sales a month are enough to keep the business going.

If Mattress Firm isnt laundering money then ill eat my left foot. Theres always five within five miles of each other😂

Natalie Flowers right?! Even though mattresses are expensive it’s not like people need them all the time. They last so long. They’d have to sell a good amount to stay in business let alone turn a profit. Between rent for the building, utilities, insurance, and paying employees I just don’t see how they stay in business. Has to be something shady going on.

There's a great Freakonomics podcast episode that addresses this very topic! freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/

Ulysses432 they were the same company that I’m referring to. Both Mattress Firms

More like, phone call to employer which checks out, so they just keep filing the paperwork automatically in case it ever matters.

@@googiegress7459 then the SWAT don't get to play with their fabulous toys.

@@NarwahlGaming I'm sure they'll pick someone.

Mattress Firm is always my first suspicion for money laundering. Almost wonder if the whole company is a shell...

@@cutapacka4 Pretty sure it's just an MLM.

I mean, mattresses are a really good place to store a lot of money. They're much bigger than suitcases.

There's a shop here in Sydney that's called The Christmas Shop and you guessed it, only open for a few wks at the yrs end every year. Funny how it's located in a pricey area *and* has operated for years....🤔

8 different mattress stores in my podunk town. 3 mattress firms

Yup I grew up in London where they are big here and I’ve researched them and the do handle a lot of dirty money

try deutsche bank

@@a1bells501 London after brexit is just gonna be the money laundering capital of the world.

I never thought of that

Lol I assumed they were just showrooms but I've never seen anyone go inside them either 🤔

bruh bc they’re delivered. it’s not a christmas tree farm you don’t just strap them to your roof

@@gracedidomenico1712 what a great scheme

@@gracedidomenico1712 to be fair A LOT of people do. Unsuccessfully sometimes though 🤣

Phyrre56 same thing here. Never anybody inside, but open year after year.

That restaurant may actually have done legitimate business as a venue for Chinese wedding parties.

I know a few of those too. Also I wonder about some high end fashion stores...at least some of them must be a front. Who is buying excessive amounts of brand named clothing for instance?

@@daviesdavies538 It doesn't take excessive amounts. Just one or two items.

The bank doesn't know or care what the businesses' square footage is. YOUR accountant DOES take your square footage, and WILL report.

Easiest way, by far, is by starting with clean money.

@@morphman86 laser tag

@@aftereffectstutorials7513 hahaha good BB reference

Follow Breaking Bad. She pretty much says they got all the deets right

If you get away with it, you probably aren't something she can teach about in her classes, unless successful launderers are using her for a confessional.

@Steven Casey Miller ?

@Steven Casey Miller My man

She put out the booty?

Yup

Then launder it through art

cringe...

I don't understand what you mean by "ripping off". The closest I can think of is lobbying FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) about the healthiness of cigarettes which ultimately causes medical bills, poor health and a steady useless expense. And gambling, weapons, alcohol, soft drinks, food etc. are other industries that come close to "ripping off" through also lobbying FUD to both scientists, politicians, journalists and the public. And perhaps you could argue poor people generally have poorer education and are more prone to self-destructive behavior, and hypothesize that they are more vulnerable to these methods. But I think lots of rich people are fooled as well. And frankly, I think it's really hard to "rip off" anybody and get away with it. It's much easier to make money by creating mutual value.

And even then they move their money to tax heavens exept now it is to avoid taxes because you worked so hard exploiting those workers that any taxation on your millions would be totally a crime

They aren't even trying, are they?

FISH STICKS AND CANDELABRAS, BOYS!

Pretty sure that wasnt really a thing back then.

be careful at how you entertain yourself

Not the only one but I have no money launder

🛑STOP SNITCHIN'🛑

You don't think they closed it up because of... the pandemic???

@@SirenaSpades nah. I asked the guy who runs the shop acorss the street. Now its just an empty building that has a blind corner drive thru. Now there are always...creative...vehicles parked there. My county goes out of it's way to displace people and services, and then act hurt when things get worse.