This would work. Also as sort of what someone else suggested, instead of inventing someone dying and leaving you money, if you are in a position like I am, with an 89 year old mother in reasonably ill health, all I need to do is hide the money, and perhaps go out to dinner more frequently and pay cash for stuff. I would put a reasonable amount of groceries and fuel on the known bank account, enjoy the expensive stuff like lobster and caviar [or whatever] bought with cash and wait it out until Mm passed. Then, we would take the inheritance, buy a used sailboat and take off to go around the world, ostensibly on mrAru’s navy pension and the balance of Moms bequest. Of course while wandering around we can just spend the small stockpile of cash the boat is equipped with until we get to one of the islands that has replaced Switzerland as a covert banking place. I would refer to keep the cash in cash in safety deposit boxes actually. You could go along for quite a while as long as you spent cash as much as possible where possible, and had a dependable source of non-working income such as an annuity or retirement benefit.
First thing I’d do? Start a business. Doesn’t really matter what, but I’d have to make sure to get loans, purchase the building and stock. The works. Then, do REALLY bad at it. Get myself into heaps of debt, to the point where I might lose all I have. Then start “doing a little better” wink. Eventually I will have supposedly paid off my debts though nothing but hard work and dedication to my business. And I’ll have a legitimate front through which to filter my money.
And if people ever did come asking about that 45 mil, I’d day: “If I had 45 mil, I would have damn well paid off that debt easier, eh?”
Just do what Thurston Howell III did.
Pack a suitcase full of thousand dollar bills*, fly to Hawaii taking your wife and your mistress (Ginger) and everyone’s complete wardrobes with you, bring your ‘pharmacist’ (the Professor) along, offer a couple of struggling tour operators the chance of a lifetime, and get ‘stranded’ on a deserted isle until the statute of limitations runs out.
Oh, and hope that some midwestern farmgirl doesn’t happen to take the same three-hour tour as you, forcing you to keep up an inane pretense for several television seasons.
*I know that they haven’t issued $1000 bills for a very long time, but , apparently, the creators of Gilligan’s Island didn’t.
Isn’t that what happened to Vesco? House arrest in Cuba with all his money… err … nationalized?
Dude, that is the awesome!
This is what I thought about right away in this thread. I’d be a very lonely and unhappy multi-millionaire.
Nope. There’s no way I’d embezzle $45 million if it meant I’d have to live a life on the run in order to keep it.
I’m not saying that the mob is never connected with stolen money. I said there would be no reason to connect the mob with this stolen money. It was embezzled by an employee from the insurance company she worked for. Why would the police start investigated the mob for this?
Can I assume that I’ve quit while I’m ahead? ie the police/ING don’t have any leads and are basically just waiting around for someone to show up with $45 million?
Then I’d take some mostly nude photos of myself, and submit ads to all the gay escort sections of the local papers. All the freaky shit, with extoribitant rates. Set up a real phone number, and just tell potential clients that I’m booked solid. Then all I have to do is deposit the money in cash in appropriate amounts, claim the proper taxes, and I’m set.
The problem with illegally acquiring a sum as large as forty-five million dollars is it’s too big to not be noticed. If you try to use any significant portion of it, people (including the police and IRS) are going to notice and make inquiries. And they’re not going to accept an explanation like “forty-five anonymous strangers gave me a million dollars apiece.”
It may not be illegal to own that much money without any explanation but they’re going to investigate to see if you were involved in any criminal activity. So if you were involved in any criminal activity - like embezzling from your employer - they’re probably going to find out about it.
By the same token, you’ve got to assume that at some point your victim is going to notice his money is missing - even ING Australia Holdings probably would have eventually noticed it was missing forty-five million dollars from its accounts. They’re going to go to the police and that will start the investigation of people who had access to the accounts. And if you’re a former employee who has several million unexplained dollars lying around, you’re probably in trouble.