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launder

[lawn-der, lahn-] / ˈlɔn dər, ˈlɑn- /


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Meanwhile, a "fraud blitz" involving 500 new officers will be part of a crackdown on gangs who are accused of using Post Offices and High Street shops to "launder illicit billions", the Metro reports.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

While Epstein was best known for his connections to businessmen and politicians, he cultivated a circle of top academics that helped launder his reputation until his arrest in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

The move has been accompanied by some rollbacks of post-coup curbs and prisoner amnesties, which analysts have likewise dismissed as lip-service measures to launder the leadership's reputation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

“And launder, too, my wife. But for cooking and washing you will have help.”

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

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

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

He launders impropriety with a functionary’s demeanor and a spin doctor’s acumen.

From Slate ● May 2, 2019

Who feeds him and launders him and mends him?

From Still Jim by Honoré Morrow

When you’ve done that, you can start to feel the excitement of owning a freshly laundered $100 bill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

He also represented Alex Saab, who American prosecutors said laundered money for Venezuela’s former strongman, Nicolás Maduro, and oversaw the importation of often-rotten food to a poverty-stricken country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The whole letter is Bezos’ grievance talking, laundered through one of his fixers.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2026

Most of the illegally-mined gold is smuggled out to the United Arab Emirates, from where it is laundered into the global supply chain in Europe, the United States, Asia and South Africa.

From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025

There was a knock on the door, and Mrs. Weasley entered, carrying an armful of freshly laundered Hogwarts robes.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

“It gives a more salacious nature to what was originally just a money laundering conspiracy case,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Failure to adequately police money laundering could violate federal laws about money laundering, illicit transmission and possibly bank fraud, former federal prosecutors said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Alex Saab, a former Venezuelan minister and close ally of ousted president Nicolas Maduro, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to money laundering under a deal with US prosecutors, court filings showed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Last year, he was given an unconditional pardon by US President Donald Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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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