Sam looks just sharp enough to know there was a patsy, and think it wasn’t him. Caroline looks like she thinks Patsy is a girl she knew in junior high.
I think Sam is above Caroline in the awareness, but both are patsies of MUCH higher minds.
This was well thought out, and Sam was just the paid actor “Zelensky” in the scheme of things. Smart enough to pass himself off as the financial wizard iconoclast, NOT smart enough to conceive of it all.
This operation existed on several levels for different time durations.
1. The insiders funneled money out, via cutouts, to their own pockets.
2. The “Zelensky” regime got to launder money, sending a % back to the originators (aka “skimming). Some of this Ukraine money actually bought a bullet. Most went into the Ukro elite bosses, much back to the USA as kickbacks. Some of this went into political hands, (congressional no-oversight, SEC looks other way)
3. Top level / long term: The entire fiasco, having run its course and been burned, (but the stolen money is still stolen!), will be used to discredit crypto generally as unsecure. “This is why we need laws to outlaw people having secret crypto wallets with no oversight.”
If they can’t control crypto, it will be outlawed. Stings will be set up to make examples out of “unregistered crypto outlaws.” Ten years in prison will make crypto unpopular. Folks will get out instead of comply with registration/regulation.
4. Finally, and the ultimate goal, the whole thing will be used to help usher in a national CBDC. It will be sold just like Trump Russia Collusion, the Covid Pandemic and mass vaccination, Ukraine, you name it.
“All good Americans support one safe and secure digital currency!”
Just hold your hand over the chip reader, and you are good to go.