Say you owe a mob boss a large sum of money. You can't just Venmo him the cash, unless you wanna get rolled up in a racketeering charge, and he doesn't want you to do that either for the same reason.
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So you find a way to do the transaction cleanly. Say, through an antique rug dealer. You tell the rug dealer you're going to lend him $250k to (wink wink) allow him to buy new inventory.
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The rug dealer is going to use that $250k, minus a cut, to buy some new inventory (wink wink) he conveniently found at a cutout for the mob boss.
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Now you've written your loan vehicle with collateral so when the receipts for repaying that loan aren't found, you can just say, "I took the goods as repayment."
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Ideally, you do this with high value products that aren't traceable, like antique rugs that have no serial numbers and arbitrary valuations.
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So no, Manafort didn't buy hundreds of thousands of dollars of rugs. That's the point.
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It's not illegal to buy 100s of thousands of dollars of rugs. He didn't get indicted for his interior design tastes.
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When the indictments came out last fall a lot of people were like OOOH DAMN HE BOUGHT **RUGS** ONLY RUSSIAN AGENTS DO THAT and like no. Jesus, people.
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Right also do they buy tickets to shit they never intend on attending, sell them off for whatever and count it as a loss? Or some other business expense? Hand the tickets out to whatever employees are still around at 430 on a Friday?
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Who buys tickets to go SHT? I just go to the bathroom, I don't buy tickets.. jk..jk..

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Paintings are huge in the underworld. And of course the movie business has become rampant. with scam accounting protecting the launderers Yachts too. Which is why TRUMP carved out massive tax cuts for them too.
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Apparently the rugs guy was already known to the FBI by the time this happened
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