thornhill: edmo: Imagine if DOJ seriously investigated every politician with questionable FEC filings.

As someone who regularly files FEC reports, what Santos did was truly in a league of its own.

Perhaps what takes the cake are the repeated $199.99 expenses; you must keep receipts/invoices for expenses of $200 or more. Nobody logs multiple $199.99 expenses because it's comically suspicious. He's so clearly trying to hide something that he would have been better off just not reporting the expense and taking his chances.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: thornhill: edmo: Imagine if DOJ seriously investigated every politician with questionable FEC filings.

As someone who regularly files FEC reports, what Santos did was truly in a league of its own.

Perhaps what takes the cake are the repeated $199.99 expenses; you must keep receipts/invoices for expenses of $200 or more. Nobody logs multiple $199.99 expenses because it's comically suspicious. He's so clearly trying to hide something that he would have been better off just not reporting the expense and taking his chances.

CSB: I had a coworker who worked table games in Las Vegas earlier in his life. There is an amount of money where cashing in requires paperwork and IF and all that. Let's just say $10k, even though I don't remember the actual number. He said they had a few people who would show up periodically on a $10 minimum bet table, usually craps because those have way bigger banks than other games, and cash in $9980. Then put down one $10 bet on the pass line and leave after it wins or loses. Good way to wash $10k worth of illegally earned money if it wasn't so perfectly just under the radar.

/not laundered, just washed

Jake Havechek: Don't Troll Me Bro!: thornhill: edmo: Imagine if DOJ seriously investigated every politician with questionable FEC filings.

As someone who regularly files FEC reports, what Santos did was truly in a league of its own.

Perhaps what takes the cake are the repeated $199.99 expenses; you must keep receipts/invoices for expenses of $200 or more. Nobody logs multiple $199.99 expenses because it's comically suspicious. He's so clearly trying to hide something that he would have been better off just not reporting the expense and taking his chances.

CSB: I had a coworker who worked table games in Las Vegas earlier in his life. There is an amount of money where cashing in requires paperwork and IF and all that. Let's just say $10k, even though I don't remember the actual number. He said they had a few people who would show up periodically on a $10 minimum bet table, usually craps because those have way bigger banks than other games, and cash in $9980. Then put down one $10 bet on the pass line and leave after it wins or loses. Good way to wash $10k worth of illegally earned money if it wasn't so perfectly just under the radar.

/not laundered, just washed

Wow.  That's pretty slick.

thornhill: Don't Troll Me Bro!: thornhill: edmo: Imagine if DOJ seriously investigated every politician with questionable FEC filings.

As someone who regularly files FEC reports, what Santos did was truly in a league of its own.

Perhaps what takes the cake are the repeated $199.99 expenses; you must keep receipts/invoices for expenses of $200 or more. Nobody logs multiple $199.99 expenses because it's comically suspicious. He's so clearly trying to hide something that he would have been better off just not reporting the expense and taking his chances.

CSB: I had a coworker who worked table games in Las Vegas earlier in his life. There is an amount of money where cashing in requires paperwork and IF and all that. Let's just say $10k, even though I don't remember the actual number. He said they had a few people who would show up periodically on a $10 minimum bet table, usually craps because those have way bigger banks than other games, and cash in $9980. Then put down one $10 bet on the pass line and leave after it wins or loses. Good way to wash $10k worth of illegally earned money if it wasn't so perfectly just under the radar.

/not laundered, just washed

Casinos are supposed to report stuff like that - they can get in trouble if they turn a blind eye to something so obviously suspicious. And that's why casinos aren't a good place to try and launder money.