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I find it implausible that someone went through the trouble of stealing $1B from an online marketplace for drugs, then sat on it for 8 years without spending an
by baobabKoodaa 6y ago
I find it implausible that someone went through the trouble of stealing $1B from an online marketplace for drugs, then sat on it for 8 years without spending any of it, and then forfeited it to the U.S. government.
- compiler-guy 6y agoPrison makes doing a lot of things extremely inconvenient, and greatly increases your preference to do things that your jailers would like you do.
- simias 6y agoAs always in situations like this you shouldn't focus on the face value but the potential value post-laundering of what he could potentially end up with. It's not like he had $1B in the bank he could spend as soon as he got out of jail. Moving even a small fraction of this amount to buy something significant is bound to have people asking questions you don't want to answer.