• NewPerspective@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I hope every customer is looked into. All of his side projects smell like money laundering operations to me.

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      9 months ago

      Like the $99 NFTs that you could only buy 100 of, conveniently falling just short of the IRS reporting threshold?

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      9 months ago

      I’m kind of naive and gullible. I’m a little embarrassed I hadn’t considered this perspective. It seems so obvious now that you point it out for us.

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      9 months ago

      “Well, Judge, I purchased each pair at such a high price because my client, Mr. Ivan Oligarchsky, believed them to actually be solid gold and has no desire to return them.”

      “What’s that? Oh, yes, the same is true of Sam Saudi, the other party I represented. He is also satisfied and would just like this whole thing to go away.”

      “As to my own culpability in assisting this alleged, ALLEGED, skirting of political fundraising guidelines (we don’t like the term ‘laws’) I was acting as a broker for the rightful President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so I declare immunity.”

      “Yes, I have seen The Office, why do you ask?”

      “Mostly livestock law, you know ‘was it coyotes or the damn Hendersons’, but I have done some real estate for family. It’s a small town. Very conservative. Not much call for lawyering.”