Imagine you were Bernie Madoff with billions of dollars of stolen funds at your disposal, and friends in high places. What sort of clever contingency plan might you devise to save the day in the (unlikely) event that your scam ever landed you in jail?
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Madoff might, for example, have asked a friend (i.e. a friend in a high place) to tap into a secret source of funds and procure the costly services of an expert team of jail breakers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Failure to comply within a certain time period could have serious consequences for this friend, who could be implicated in the investment fraud.
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Set up dozens of offshore accounts that rotate automatically at regular intervals frequently - all anonymous - no-name accounts. Create an off-shore business as part of a holding co. That entity may own a bank or an exchange or major commercial real estate or all of the above.
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With the money and connections he most certainly had, I'm surprised he didn't have a private, long range jet fueled and ready to go - to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S.
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Get myself thrown in a high-class looney bin, get myself transferred to another with a trap set up along the way to bust me out, get a private jet fueled and ready to go to Venezuela, get that money into some Venezuelan oil!
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