Could Super-Pacs be used to launder money? [View all]

[Motown_Johnny]

Purely as a thought experiment......


Lets say you and I were partners in crime and we had several hundred million dollars of ill gotten gains in off shore accounts. What to do, what to do?


Well, we could set up a bunch of shell companies that were things like think tanks and consulting firms and maybe even a production company or two.

Then we could have a lawyer create some anonymous Super Pac out of a P.O. Box somewhere so we could dump all our off shore money into it and never need to disclose where we got the money from.

Lastly we could then transfer that money to our shell companies and say we received valuable advice about the crappy attack ads our production companies make against policies we don't like.



Since there are no disclosures about where the Super Pac gets it's money how would anyone ever know?


I hope I am missing something.