re: #26 Targetpractice

Yeah, playing the victim is a big part of shtick, but the bigger part is “I’ve got more money than God and can drop enormous sums of money without breaking a sweat.” Yet he doesn’t and he isn’t. Why would he be doing that if it was as simple as calling Riyadh or Moscow and telling them to cut a check?

To be blunt, NY isn’t going to accept a check. They’re going to want a wire. And the thing about sending a wire is that it goes through sanctions screening first. Yeah, you can try to hide the source of funds, but it’s not as easy as it used to be.

That said, based on my personal experience, a half a billion dollar wire is a lot of money to just about everyone, but in the flow of money sloshing around the international financial markets, it’s 0.0X percent of what changes hands every day.