They don’t have any visible source of income, so they can’t buy anything that will leave a trail for the Feds to follow (boats, cars, houses, travel, etc…). If you show no income and purchase a $400,000 sports car, at some point, the Feds will come looking for you. They won’t bust you for the source of your illicit activities if they can’t find it, but no worries, they’ll bust you for tax evasion.
If you’re making half a million a year from that pot farm in Fallbrook, buying non traceable things gets old after awhile (furniture, drugs, hookers, etc..) well maybe it doesn’t get too, but you probably get my point.
You need to legitimize this I’ll gotten gain by basically showing a source for it and paying tax on it.
You can run it through the casino because there’s no record of how much you spent, only a record of how much you won over a certain amount (at least at the track where I used to work, I don’t know about casinos). You run $100,000 through in a weekend and keep $50,000, that’s $50,000 you can spend on a car or house without getting busted cause, hey, you won it at the casino, you must a been lucky.
Another thing is you can start a misc. Appliance repair shop, or even a laundromat. If all your transactions are cash, then it’s really hard to track how much business you did. You just dump your drug money and claim it came from customers, get taxed on it, and buy a house, sports car, boat, whatever.
The SDPD helicopters that they just replaced had come from a drug kingpin who had a bunch of assets including those two helicopters, but no job or source of income. Had he had a vacuum repair shop, he’d probably still flying them around.
