3 types of money laundering

Here are three types of money laundering.

1. The first type is when you want to steal public money out of a treasury or something similar. You can't just take it. It has to have a reason to leave the treasury. Remember in the 1980s hearing about 600 dollar toilet seats? It was presented as a sort of comical example of ordinary government inefficiency. What it really was was money laundering. To get money out of the treasury the criminals use third party vendors (like companies that manufacture things that the Dept. of Defense needs). The criminals (politicians, political appointees, lobbyists, etc.) tell the third party vendors to massively overcharge for their products, then these companies give the money back to the criminals in the form of campaign contributions and other means that they've made legal.

2. The second type is when you have made money illegally like in drug trafficking and you then have to integrate that actual paper cash back into the financial grid without getting caught doing it. The first example of how this is done, in the past and still today, is casinos. It's been said that Las Vegas was built by the mob (and the CIA) to be a massive money laundering machine. The cash is taken in as purported anonymous gambling losses and re-enters the financial system that way. The second example is fake small businesses that pretend to have customers and fake their books to make it look that way but really just exist to launder money.

3. The third type is when you have to pay people who aren't officially working for you. The neocon blood-for-money endless war racket has this problem. They make money with specialized hedge funds. (Hedge funds are like mutual funds for the rich. Because their clientele are wealthy they don't have to follow laws that ordinary mutual funds have to follow. They can short stocks, for instance and do more exotic types of trading.) These hedge funds are heavily invested in military related companies and thus increase in value when troops are deployed or when actual wars get ginned up. For this to happen neocons have to destabilize countries and regions of the world. A big thing to have to do, so they hire former politicians and high level appointees, bribe world leaders and other people of influence, promise lucrative retirements to active military leaders, and on and on. They also pay media platforms and individual journalists to run propaganda for them to get these endless military enterprises going. Once the blood has been spilled and it's time to disperse the blood money they do it with a type of money laundering. In their case it is done via speaking fees for their famous political types who have been working for them. It is not unusual for one of them to be paid over $100,000 for one speech. Even a quarter million if need be. The box office at these contrived events never match such fees, but no matter. Nobody is really paying attention anyway. They work with agencies that book such events and with venues. Everybody makes money and is happy. They also do book deals where they hire a ghost writer to write some kind of memoir or something for a general or former Secretary of State or whatever, get the publisher to advance a large amount that the hedge fund covers, and then the hedge fund even buys numerous copies of the book to make sure the publishing company gets paid. They also make contributions to magazines run by journalists who produce propaganda for the neocon cause. They also contribute to political action committees set up by their various helpers, and for the low level journalists they provide $10,000 speaking fees for a short jaunt to somewhere in Iowa where the low level journalist gives a speech to three people in a Holiday Inn banquet room.