“No way they’ll sell more than a few thousand books, so the sellers are washing a lot of money.”
The way this works is, I want to give a politician a bribe for favors. I go to a publisher and say, I want to give Obama 10 million dollars. How much will you charge? This is over lunch or a drink. They will say 12 million dollars. The money has now been washed. The transaction is entirely legal, providing there is no evidence in writing about the negotiations; either between me and Obama or me and the publisher. Probably, the whole thing is handled through intermediaries.
Just as with the Clintons, I immediately smelled a money laundering scheme upon reading the title.
Clintons did same thing.