The latter: Buy a lot of tickets (which aren't tracked transactions, so there's no saying how much dirty money you spent), and lose N% of it to the "house". Ta

The latter: Buy a lot of tickets (which aren't tracked transactions, so there's no saying how much dirty money you spent), and lose N% of it to the "house". Take your winnings (and if you buy scratch tickets, you should be relatively statistically safe) and it's "clean". Of course, I've read that the scratch tickets systems are often flawed, and with some you can calculate if it's a winner by examining the serial numbers. That means you have various ways to cheat the system to give you better odds, but the reference I just found to that is a wired article, so take with salt. Pretty believable though. http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/ http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/ (anecdotes about laundering and odds being beaten are past the 50% mark, but the whole article is worth a read)