Is money laundering a crime or is it not?

[ProfessorPlum]

What is going on with this country that rich assholes are apparently free to launder millions of dollars in dirty Russian mob money, and the only way they are stopped is that they get elected President and have a special prosecutor assigned to them? (If that even stops them)

Why wasn't Trump in jail years before this, and how many other shitheels are running similar criminal enterprises? Are our prosecuters too busy sending hemp users to jail to maybe look into this?

For fucks sake

[Shell_Seas]

1. Just the other day,

I was told that it was not....

[NCTraveler]

2. I believe that hundreds of people are charged with money laundering each year.

Of those found guilty, over seventy percent of them serve time.

Sounds like a crime to me.

Some information from 2010.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011/09/01/10statrpt.pdf

[AJT]

3. I've been wondering the same thing. When a foreign national

registers 1000 corporations wouldn't that have sent up a red flag? When multiple apartments are sold to criminals at inflated prices shouldn't that be looked at? Why aren't rich people under scrutiny? If a poor person doesn't pay a parking ticket they end up in jail.

[ProfessorPlum]

9. Exactly

And it isn't like these patterns would be particularly hard to spot, especially given today's computing and surveillance and data gathering capabilities.

[AJT]

11. Hmmmm, you must be RICH! After all you're still free

after committing a murder in the library with a candlestick......

[ProfessorPlum]

13. That was never proven....

[FiveGoodMen]

4. If this country stopped worshiping the rich

we might elect those who would punish them for their transgressions.

As long as we stand in awe of those with money, we will never rein them in.

(Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Cribs, the Kardashians, the Osteens, and on and on)

[leftstreet]

5. +1

[lostnfound]

16. +1

[BainsBane]

6. Or commit bank fraud.

[Leghorn21]

8. Copy that query, Plum - loser 45's no novice at laundering and rico-ing...and I am

cheering on Eric Schneiderman like a maniac, but - why not a thorough investigation years and years ago?

[ProfessorPlum]

10. I know, right?

It's like this open secret. Everyone knows he's doing it, so what is the holdup?

[wishstar]

12. Usually involves tax evasion and involvement in organized crime activities

because moving money around to avoid detection by authorities is only done to escape taxation and hide criminal enterprises

[ProfessorPlum]

14. That's right, but the patterns must be easy to spot.

And subpoenas for records, tax returns, etc. would clear it up in a hurry.

[jberryhill]

15. I find money in the laundry all of the time

[ananda]

17. Right now ..

.. nothing is a crime in the Trump admin.

That's because nobocy is holding Trump or his admin
accountable.

If there were an actual, working justice system, that
would be a different story.

I don't expect Mueller's investigation will go much
farther.

It will take a special prosecutor totally independent
of the presidency and his admin.