Chatty Hollywood

Ponzi scheme is essentially a means of financial operation.

In fact, many financial instruments, without supervision, can easily become tools in the hands of scammers.

You know, when things like "finance" and "stocks" first appeared in this world, they were not far from "cheating money".

Therefore, with the development of society, legal restrictions on financial behavior are becoming more and more stringent.

After all, as some people say, the fastest way to make a person rich is often written in the Criminal Law.

However, specific to the United States, a country that has been manipulated by Wall Street financial players, it is somewhat different.

Since Wall Street controls the entire country, it naturally hopes that the less supervision it will have, the better, especially when they use some more dangerous methods.

Therefore, many of the methods that are illegal in other countries are just stepping on the line and legal in the United States.

This difference in standards has led to an endless stream of financial fraud cases such as the Ponzi scheme in the United States.

From the huge wealth of Hollywood stars to the pension insurance of ordinary working-class people, they are all within the hunting scope of financial crooks.

This may be the price of "freedom"!

Compared with the deceived people, the scammers are much smarter.

In order to prevent the huge sum of money in their hands from being forcibly recovered by the court one day after the car overturned, they generally choose to spend the money as soon as possible.

And among them, there are two types

One kind of nature is spent on one's own enjoyment.

Although, if the money is turned into real property or clothes, the court can also seal it and recover it. But at least no one can do anything to eat into the stomach and squirt out of the body.

For the scammers, it really means "you don't have to spend money, and it's invalid when it expires."

The second type is the famous money laundering.

This method is not only used by scammers, but also by various other bigwigs with illegal income.

Up to Capitol Hill in Washington, down to the gangster neighborhoods of Detroit, there are supporters of this behavior.

Unlike the first method, which is pure enjoyment and cannot be recovered, the money spent on money laundering will eventually return to the hands of scammers and all the bigwigs.

However, at that time, the money had become legal income, and even the court could not recover it.

Just as the money scammed by a scammer is certainly illegal income, but if he uses the money to buy a hamburger, the money the hamburger seller makes is serious money.

But what if the burger seller then donated part of the money he earned to a charitable foundation founded in the name of the relative of the scammer?

This still seems to be a legal income process, and in modern society, the possibility of linking the nine races has long since disappeared...

Of course, the path is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high, and evolution is relatively progressing.

Since gray income earners can launder money, the government and courts will naturally study tracking methods.

In fact, in a modern society where there are bills for all kinds of consumption and income, many simple money laundering methods are no longer valid.

The police can follow the bill and recover the unreasonable income.

But this early stage is that there are bills to follow.

In many industries where small capital flows quickly and are not well supervised, the police and the courts are powerless.

After all, even if there are bills, enough accounting personnel are needed to track them.

If there are too many, no one can help.

The entertainment industry accounts for a large proportion of these industries that make people unable to help.

Games, movies, and even some other Internet industries that lacked supervision were once the hardest hit areas for money laundering by black tycoons.

This is not only the United States, but also across the Pacific Ocean.

Specific to Hollywood, this situation was once very serious.

Several of the seven major Hollywood production companies have been rumored to have a gang background.

In essence, they used to launder money for the gang.

Of course, this situation is slowly disappearing with the tightening of monitoring by fbi and the US Internal Revenue Service.

However, for those pure financial criminals, this kind of supervision is not very useful.

No way, who makes the U.S. financial industry high-status?

Before he rolls over, they can even be the image of Soros or even Buffett, who is a completely legal rich man.

Even if your IRS has its own independent court, what can you do with others before finding evidence?

Therefore, financial scammers can still come to Hollywood to try to launder money after they have scammed huge sums of money.

But in fact, there are not many such people.

There is a very strange reason

Liars are afraid of being blackmailed.

After all, the showbiz likes to turn profits into losses through accounting, and then specialize in the reputation of outside investors' money, but they are well-known.

Strong investors can send reliable personnel to supervise, and gangs are threatened by violence, but they can make the soft guys in the entertainment industry honest.

But what do scammers have?

They are worth hundreds of millions even when they don’t overturn the car, but because of the confidentiality involved, there are not so many trusted personnel. How can they supervise the old fritters in the entertainment industry?

Therefore, there are not many financial crooks who dare to invest or launder money in Hollywood.

But when Charlotte was preparing for "Sixth Sense," she encountered a

Martin Channing, a rich man in New York, a tycoon on Wall Street.

He has been very interested in the film industry in the past two years, so when Charlotte was preparing for "Sixth Sense", he met with Charlotte and wanted to invest.

Then Charlotte saw through his true colors at a glance.

After all, as a master of deception, Charlotte is very familiar with the atmosphere of the same kind.

In particular, the other party also hinted to Charlotte that if he accepts his investment and guarantees the return, he can also pay a large sum of money to make the box office for "Sixth Sense" after the movie is released.

This proposal completely let Charlotte see him through.

You know, although the film party pays for the box office and cheats, it often happens.

But in essence, doing that is either to save face or to deliberately increase the box office, play a role of publicity, so as to attract more audiences.

By the way, this kind of gameplay is not uncommon in later generations of Apple game bestsellers.

However, such a seemingly cost-free, direct box office plan like Martin Channing ~www.readwn.com~ is obviously not in line with the above logic.

After all, if you charge too much, you lose money.

Unless this product just wants to spend a certain price for money laundering.

Charlotte realized this possibility for the first time.

In the subsequent contact, he made his judgment even more clear.

He ultimately did not accept Martin Channing's investment because he knew that once the other party's scam was exposed in the future, it would definitely affect his investment projects.

Even if the income from "Sixth Sense" will not be recovered by the court, the reputation damage is ironclad.

Charlotte is not a producer or executive of a big production company in a pure sense. For him as a director, the reputation damage is still very troublesome.

Moreover, "Sixth Sense" did not lack investment at the time, and Charlotte did not need to trouble herself at all.

However, on the other hand, Charlotte hit Martin Channing's idea again.