Originally Posted by
AxelWolf
I was kind of wondering about the pricing as well, but I wasn't sure how much mileage and various different options an upgrades counted as far as the price goes. Whatever the case, when you're trying to hide or launder or spend money, price isn't always an issue.
I can't speak for hypotheticals...there are many different scenarios, but according to what Rob says he won the money via slot or video gaming machines, which would mean that any jackpot over $1200. would have already been reported via a W-2G, right? There's no way he could have won the millions he claims to have won via slots/video gaming and not received a multitude of W-2Gs.
Also, he has said more than once that his tax returns would back up his claimed winnings.
Assuming what he has said is true, then all of the money would already have been reported and even paid tax against, in which case there would have been no further need to rinse it.
Even if everything he says about filing taxes against it is just a cover story he told us versus admitting tax evasion, and he somehow was able to avoid the W-2Gs or somehow managed to get them issued against bogus identities...a lot of ifs...and he just somehow ended up with a pile of $2.8M in unreported cash, once he got that unreported cash into a form where he could buy anything priced over ten grand without reporting, this would presuppose that he already laundered it.
Showing up at the motor home dealer with a million and half in cash is going to result, assuming the motor home dealer is even willing to accept that much cash which is extremely doubtful, in a financial cash report
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8300.pdf
and that amount of cash received is going to trigger a major red flag with the government.
Point being, that before he showed up at the motor home dealer, again assuming all of the ifs including the biggest if of whether any of this is even true and a million dollar or close motor home was purchased, he would have already dealt with converting that cash to something more like a cashier's check, in which case, already laundered, there would have been no reason to blow or overspend the money.
Have you ever seen the movie At Close Range? In it Christopher Walken's character buys a used car for cash, drives it across the street and sells it for cash, and then declares that he has laundered the money. That's ridiculous. All he did was convert the cash in his hand to a lower sum of cash in his hand. It wasn't like those particular initial dollars had been reported stolen. This sort of misunderstanding of what money laundering is, and isn't, leads to thinking that Rob's implied story of that he needed to park cash in something like a motorhome was part of any laundering scheme.
What I am saying, in sum, is that either Rob hid his identity throughout the casino wins and somehow received millions in cash that he would have then had to launder, which buying a motor home for cash from a reputable dealer is definitely NOT a way to launder, OR all the money he won was already reported and accounted for with the government, in which case no need to stash it anywhere just for the sake of stashing.
Or, none of this is even true and there never were $2.8M in winnings.
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