Pizzagate related because there seem to be a lot of art collectors in this group, Tony Podesta art collection and connections. James A with his odd Pegasus museum. I know people have discussed this before, but maybe it deserves a closer look. Money laundering through art? The "cards" picture by Cezanne being bought for record amount of money by a Middle East country....the list goes on and on. Is there something here?
http://mileswmathis.com/launder.pdf
Someone posted this earlier and found it eye opening and a potential lead.
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Silencio ago
Also easy to get money from one country to another without much cross border disclosure, concealed with a chain of art deals. Joe in china buys an art piece A from gagosian gallery for 10million, mike in USA sells art piece B to gagosian a week later for 6mm and sells piece C for 4mm a month later. Joe in china just routed 10mm to mike in USA via art world. The subjectively valued A, B and C art pieces are just tools for this transfer, they can be resuffled bought/sold later as needed at new arbitrary valuations. Works as long as the gallery plays it's role as the banker, which they know is hard to prove, probably the real transaction values would be like 10.2mm in china into 10mm in USS for the art dealer's cut of 200k.