launder
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"This is going to launder bad intelligence and bad data," she remembers arguing publicly.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Shell companies are dangerous because they are used both by criminal organizations to evade sanctions and launder money and by the rich to avoid taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Other loopholes exist to launder gold, such as "ghost mines," detailed in a Greenpeace investigation published Friday.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Because it prevented leaks, the Boater reduced the need to frequently launder soaked clothes, sheets and blankets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The whole point of the CDO was to launder a lot of subprime mortgage market risk that the firms had been unable to place straightforwardly.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated three leaders and supporters of an Iran-aligned militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, as well as a business that it says moves and launders funds for the organization.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
“Today, Treasury is sanctioning Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer that launders the proceeds of cybercrimes, including those committed against victims in the United States,” Nelson said.
From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022
But the game launders this good idea into a bad one by making many enemies invulnerable unless your character has reached a certain level.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020
Bethany launders them in-house and places them in a tub in the entryway, for workers to don each day after taking their temperature and passing a screening.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2020
Nor would there be any difficulty in making reservoirs upon the ridge-tops, with launders, or gutters, to collect the rain.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
One victim in Missouri reportedly lost more than $16 million, while millions of dollars in suspected scam proceeds were allegedly laundered through cryptocurrency.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Operation Jackal IV - which took place between November 2025 and June 2026 - investigated how the groups laundered money and how financial fraud cyber crimes, such as cryptocurrency and email compromise fraud, were conducted.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The Treasury also designated the two exchanges “terror assets” and said Zanjani had laundered money and provided funding for Revolutionary Guard projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
The whole letter is Bezos’ grievance talking, laundered through one of his fixers.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2026
“I asked Buford to get them laundered and folded while he’s out. Hopefully he will.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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Betancourt surfaced as a suspect in the U.S. case and is still under investigation for suspected money laundering by authorities in Spain, according to former U.S. and European officials and press reports.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
French investigators have previously examined his real-estate holdings near Paris as part of a probe into alleged money laundering and rosewood trafficking, though the case was dropped in 2023 due to insufficient evidence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“When a bank of this size fails to meet its anti-money laundering and sanctions obligations, the consequences extend far beyond its own walls, exposing the entire U.S. financial system to significant illicit finance risks.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Regulators and law enforcement rely on banks to be a first line of defense against money laundering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
But it didn’t require any sort of genius to see the fortune to be had from the laundering of triple-B-rated bonds into triple-A-rated bonds.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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