I’ll tell you what I am not getting is the enormous international sums that must be involved to compensate for all the petty payoffs here in DC. Look at the GCF. Given the payoff and the legal consequences for bribary, Hills actions must have been worth a couple hundred billion to the beneficiaries. Sotero, ok, the only question is what was his skim off the $1.7 B - although there are stories about large sums of non cash payments as well. You have to structure these over time to ensure you get your rakeoff and the other guy gets his boodle. It’s not as though you can trust the counter-parties.
The son of the mailman is worth roughly $25,000,000
Look at any of our ‘officials’
Where does their money come from?
Number accounts in
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Caiman islands
The Bahama’s
You don’t try and hide it here, you move it offshore