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This reminds me of a great reading comprehension test that Matt Levine wrote:

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Not legal advice Here’s a little reading comprehension quiz. Read the following paragraph and then answer the question at the end. You are an art dealer. A woman walks into your gallery and says, enunciating very clearly, “hello, I am a drug dealer, I have a lot of money and would like to launder it using art. Can you help me?” You explain to her the basics of art-based money laundering: She can use her drug money to buy art from you, with no real record of the transaction; later, she can say that she inherited the art or bought it cheap at a yard sale, and sell it for a lot of clean taxable money. She says “ah great thank you very much, I will be back with some drug money that I have earned by dealing drugs.” Later she comes back and says “hello, it’s me again, remember, the drug dealer?” She hands you a bag of money and says: “I would like to buy some art with this money, which smells like drugs. Smell it, see? Drugs. I guess I need to launder it, ha ha ha. To get the smell out. Because it smells like drugs. Because I got it from selling drugs. Because I am a drug dealer.” The question is: What does this woman do for a living? If you answered “she’s a drug dealer” you are definitely in prison right now because the only possible answer is “she’s a police officer.” Here’s a fun New York Times story
November 29, 2023 at 5:52 PM