How Money Laundering Works
Where this is going you realize, Bannon told Wolff. This is about money laundering. Mueller chose Weissmann first and he's a money laundering guy. Their path goes through Don Jr Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner. It's going through Deutsche Bank and the Kushner s.Two quick explanations. Weissmann refers to Andrew Weissmann. Although not the have years of experience in prosecuting crimes, he was among Muellers hires. Deutsche Bank is a financial institution that has been a clear focus of prosecutors, although not necessarily by Muellers team, before the 2016 election issued because of a loan of over a quarter billion dollars.
Bannons debate is that Muellers team is concentrated not on Russian infantry, but on Earning cash laundering by Manafort, Donald Trump Jr.And Kushner that may then be utilized as leverage against Trump. Manafort faces money laundering charges. Property purchased by Manafort in Virginia and NY by companies might be involved by those charges. Property, it seems, is critical to the cost Bannon made, given the participation of Kushner and Trump Jr.In the market. In light of that, we achieved to Chris Quick, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent that now runs a private firm in South Carolina and who specialised in financial offenses.
He walked us through others might be implicated in that action and money laundering functioned in the real estate business. With any money laundering, you are attempting to make the illegally obtained money look legitimate, Quick said. So in the simplest terms, if you've real estate, you are going to purchase a piece of land with the illegal funds, hang on to it or have rental income from it, in order this rental income is legitimate and eventually whenever you sell the real estate, you get your proceeds out of it and by all accounts it seems to be a legitimate transaction. Law, any financial transaction of more than $10, 000 involving illegal funds counts as money laundering.
How do you purchase the land in the first place without raising eyebrows? One of the ways is to move the money for all All Those properties into shell companies, Quick said. What they are hoping is this an investigator or someone whos digging around does not investigate or dig around into where the money came from for this company, he said.