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Hmm what work is that? Getting a visa? With that much cash I'd leave first (on a tourist visa) and figure the rest out later..

• bostonsre 5y ago
  Yea, maybe bring your cat or dog but literally pack like you're going on vacation. If they arrest you before leaving the country then you were screwed already.
• markdown 5y ago
  Americans don't need to apply for a Visa to visit most of the world. They just get one automatically on arrival. They could have just bought a Vanuatu passport with bitcoin (~$150k), then travelled there for a holiday. Leave the US with the US passport and arrive in Van with the Van passport. CHange their name in Vanuatu, then move to a 3rd country to settle permanently with a new name. Maybe change it one more time and gain citizenship in that third country, and that'd be enough to disappear for regular people. The spooks will still find you, but without extradition powers...
  • johntb86 5y ago
    Once the spooks find you you'd need to be very careful to avoid flights in or near the airspace of countries friendly to the US.
    • bostonsre 5y ago
      Do the spooks care one way or the other about non-terrorists and non-nation state criminals?
  • jessaustin 5y ago
    ...they'll wait until you get drunk (i.e. roofied) at a bar, then kidnap and torture you until you give them all your money. The "red" budget is even more fun than the black budget. Choosing to defy the state is choosing to defend oneself forever against the creepy-crawlies the state pays to notice such defiance.