You're still thinking about the wrong kind of transaction. Try "Super PAC" and other forms of paying for access/influence, or the popular practice of giving som

You're still thinking about the wrong kind of transaction. Try "Super PAC" and other forms of paying for access/influence, or the popular practice of giving someone a $250,000 speaking fee or well-paying job they don't have to attend. These are obviously bribes, which would have been a scandal 50+ years ago, but we legalized them. I'll assume you're already familiar with the legal, quasi-legal, and illegal ways money is moved into offshore accounts. The details change over time as regulators catch up, and I believe there has been some progress in recent years at stopping some of these practices. > just to introduce Of course not. There were many (profitable) reasons deregulation happened.