Also, transferring money to a Swiss bank account is not against the law. The lawyer quoted says it was moved offshore to "conceal" the source of money...that is

Also, transferring money to a Swiss bank account is not against the law. The lawyer quoted says it was moved offshore to "conceal" the source of money...that isn't how money laundering works. Money laundering "works" through a chain of actions whose intent is to conceal the original source of said money. Some or all of those actions might be legal in themselves, it is the intent that counts - if you know the state is after your assets and you knowingly transfer those assets to a place the state can't find them (or even, would have trouble finding them, whether or not it could technically find them), then a pattern is fairly evident even if the transfer itself is legal. Generally, playing games to make the state's job harder once it's investigating you is going to be a crime in the US (and many other places I believe). This is because the law has never been "blind" in the sense that it only considers actions - the law has always considered intentions and efforts to get results. Putting poison in a cup by itself isn't illegal, for example. Leaving that cup anywhere someone might drink from it on the other hand winds-up in crime.