Look, you can make your money disappear too—transfer it all into a trust. Presto chango. Then you can legitimately say you, personally are only worth $2,000. The trust is a separate taxable entity.
Omar and her husband created shell companies to launder foreign money into their personal bank accounts. The $30 million was the cash flow through their machine that they failed to offset on paper with liabilities. When discovered, they manufactured debt to cancel out the cash transaction, bringing their net worth back to only a few thousand dollars. On paper.
-PJ