Dirty Money, Clean Businesses: How Criminal Organizations Launder Millions

Episode Description:

A restaurant can serve real customers, a construction company can build real houses, and a car dealership can sell real vehicles—and still become part of a criminal financial network. Money laundering increasingly blurs the boundary between the legitimate economy and organized crime by using apparently ordinary businesses to disguise the origins of illicit wealth. In this episode of White Collar Crime, we examine why legitimate companies are so useful to criminal organizations, what investigators look for, and how dirty money can disappear into an otherwise normal balance sheet.