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What, the spending at $25,000 at Duane Reade (NYC-area drugstore) wasn't a dead giveaway of money laundering? https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/manafort-un
by ordinaryperson 9y ago
What, the spending at $25,000 at Duane Reade (NYC-area drugstore) wasn't a dead giveaway of money laundering?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/manafort-under-scrutiny-for-40-million-in-suspicious?utm_term=.jf740k8e9#.iuxxOAPWQ https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/manafort-under-scrutin... (bottom)
The entire inventory of the store is barely worth 25K, I assume he must have been loading up on gift cards a la Mexican drug lords (http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/10/drug-lords-using-gift-cards-to-smuggle-money/ http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/10/drug-lords-using-gift-car...).
- trendia 9y agoOr he had some really expensive meds and bad insurance. That's pretty unlikely though.
- nasredin 9y agoBingo! $21,300 for his meds. The remaining ~4,000 maybe just fell out of his wallet. https://nytimes.com/2018/02/23/health/valeant-drug-price-syprine.html https://nytimes.com/2018/02/23/health/valeant-drug-price-syp...