Thanks, Ali Velshi! Two minutes of economic instruction and you understand the charges against Manafort. (PS Manafort is hiding ill-gotten gains.)
October 31, 2017

Ali Velshi explains money laundering in two minutes.

The bottom line? It's making money that comes from illegal activities look like it's legal.

Snce he mentioned Breaking Bad, here's how they did it on that show, using a car wash business to hide that Walter White's income came from selling meth.

No one was better at explaining it than Saul Goodman:

And here's the details on Manafort from CBS News:

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