For a gangster, these animals are like bundles of cash lying almost unprotected in the wilderness.
NEW YORK — Perhaps the future of top museums across the Western world that are strapped for cash lies in cameo exhibitions.
Citizens of these countries travel regularly to the eurozone, and are likely to have a fair amount of euro cash lying around.
"Look," says one would-be criminal mastermind, "you've got to kidnap the guy you have, not make up some imaginary guy who would leave more cash lying around".
In Mexican novels, and in movies, the houses of the illicitly rich and infamous are louche, luxurious affairs, with toilets made of gold, mounds of cocaine or cash lying around and furniture of thronelike proportions.
"Even if it's, say, a $2.5 million job," said Steven D. Sladkus, a real estate lawyer, "a good number of buildings just don't have that cash lying around in a capital reserve fund to plunk down to reskin a building.
Last fall, acting on a tip from federal investigators in the Bank of New York scandal, Russian agents swooped down on Flamingo, and scooped up $430,000 and 3.3 million rubles in loose cash lying around its offices, unaccounted for and otherwise undocumented.
Statistically, there is a designation for them; they are known as ultra-H.N.W.I.'s (for high net-worth individuals), because they have more than $30 million in discretionary cash lying around.
(That would leave plenty of cash lying around for the bad-acting CEOs in question to spring for a secret Wu-Tang Clan CD, for example, or any number of other ego-flattering baubles).
Any reputational damage from a shortage, or surfeit, of cash lies with the central bank.Investors feared that De La Rue had done irreparable damage to its own reputation in 2010, when it botched an order for high-quality banknote paper from a big client, said to be India's central bank.
