re: Too much money to Launder?

Drug lords have buried it in the ground for years.
Pablo Escobar supposedly buried so much that he couldn’t remember where he buried it. Farms have dug it up in their fields

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casino

buy chips, play for an hour, cash in

basic Rockford Files 101

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This would be my first thought as well (strangely enough I had a dream the other night about this very question). Only question is do casinos have any tracking or reporting requirements over a certain amount?

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always thought storage facilities were viable.

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This seems to make some sense as you don’t have as easy of ways to check on things like inventory purchases, water usage, etc.

The problem will be getting the initial loan, especially if you are trying to be cost effective and build it out where land is cheap, typically meaning low population density. Any decent bank underwriting team will really question the viability of the business. Your plan will also need to not charge grossly out of market rents and obviously having no experience in the business would hurt.

Then you need the fake leases for any units not actually rented and how the fake leases are paid.

Seems like if you could get 75% of so of the units rented with real tenants, you could fill the rest with month to month (which you could justify higher rent on) cash paying fake clients and maybe not catch any heat. That might also justify modest periodic expansion of units.

I don’t like the idea of paying people you know a few bucks to lease units they don’t need. The less people who know, the better, as with any criminal enterprise.

Would need to be disciplined and pay off the loan as quick as possible and get one less set of eyes on your financial statements.

Yeah, you’d have to get a check from the casino when you cash out. Not sure if casinos write checks if you used cash for the chips. Every time I’ve cashed out, I’ve gotten cash. But the most was only a couple hundred.

HOOKERS AND BLOW !

You gotta launder through states like TN, Delaware, Florida etc... States that let you establish a business with pretty much nothing other than a po box. I don't remember the list but there are a few states where it is pretty easy to stay anonymous. You'll need an import/export business to be owned by a blind trust in one of the states where you can hide the names.

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You could bury it somewhere, take up a treasure hunting hobby, go out with your metal detector and "find" it.

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I have no idea of the law on these matters, but logic would tell me it had better be on land that you own.

Found money can be a strange deal... It sounds like a Simple Plan but...

One thing about laundering. If you're paying taxes. You are less likely to get forensic auditors up your but which is usually the downfall of most top dollar criminals.
Real estate is the easiest way to hide it. I've long been convinced that many strip malls that stay empty are laundering fronts. Restaurants are good fronts but I was told the best front by far and the most common locally is the art gallery.

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Yeah, you’d have to get a check from the casino when you cash out.

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That wouldn't matter. What you need is the back story and support to show how you got the cash to buy the chips in the first place. Which again shows that people on here don't understand the concept of money laundering.