He had a good frame under the layers of coats, and after a shave, a shower and some laundered clothes, he could pass for a handsomer Quentin Tarantino.
In his comments Saturday, Taibbi recalled how a group of journalists in 2011 realized that, despite in some cases laundering nearly a billion dollars, in only one instance had any of the giant financial firms seen even a single employee face criminal prosecution.
Some of these records are attempts at being famous, some are actually money laundering devices, some are just for friends, and some are souvenirs for live shows at a lounge.
And stains and bits of food adhered to some poorly laundered cotton napkins and woven place mats.
Still, it'll tap into some thorny issues (money laundering, anyone?) that some exchanges might not yet have a proper way of handling.
The judges were charged with laundering some of the money, buying a luxury condominium in Florida in 2004.
In some ways, money laundering is to Macau what corruption is to mainland China – ubiquitous, yet impossible to eradicate without undermining the entire economy.
Henrique Pizzolato, a former director of the state-controlled Banco do Brasil, guilty of laundering some of the money, quietly fled to Italy, where he also has citizenship, some weeks ago.
Mr. Chen, Taiwan's president from 2000 to 2008, was convicted in 2009 of embezzling $3.15 million from another fund, receiving at least $9 million in bribes, and laundering some of the money through Swiss bank accounts.
As with dodgy bankers, making a noisy example of some dodgy foreigners laundering ill-gotten gains through estate agents' doors might help dampen the market and improve public confidence.
