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Re:Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking ... by nnm on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:40PM (#14403948)
per wikipedia

Money laundering is the process of transforming the profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly 'legitimate' assets.

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Re:Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking ... by Apocryphon on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:17PM (#14404900)
It's 2017 and we're still looking up the reference book definition of laundering. Office Space was onto something.
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Re:Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking ... by shallot_router on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:26PM (#14405010)
Let's be honest, Office Space was onto everything.
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Re:Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking ... by MichaelGG on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:51PM (#14406105)
Probably because it's such a non-thing, a fake crime invented to make prosecutors lives much easier.
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